Soft Mick.

pendy said:
Anyone remember "Corporation Pop"? - If you asked for a drink of pop, you might well be told "Go ter't tap and get thisen some Corporation pop".
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we had corporation pop too ,,
i once asked on burnley web if anyone remembered making spanish juice as kids ,we got a thick peice of spanish from the chemist ,added water and left it in the coal cellar for days ,giving it a shake now and then ,,,god it was lovely ,we took it on picnics with jam butties ,,,(oh memories)
 
pendy said:
Said at the beginning of the evening to a novice drinker -

"Get that down yer, lad, tha'll feel better for it"

At the end of the evening -

"Bring it up, lad, tha'll feel better for it!"
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Sounds like my hero Fred Dibnah, i'll go to foot of our stairs.
 
Last time i seen soft Mick he was as happy as Larry, but i would'nt touch him with a barge pole, and if you break your leg don't come running to me.
 
Oh that spanish juice was best made with the hard little ha'penny spanishes. Penny spanishes were big soft and slightly floppy but the little round hard ha'penny sticks made great spanish juice. We used to keep some inside our desks at Peel Park and let it mature down the back somewhere. Horrendous if it spilt!
 
I remember being told I was "shapin' wooden" when being clumsy or butterfingered;also heard "eh I've got 'ands like cow's t*ts today!"
 
grannyclaret said:
we had corporation pop too ,,
i once asked on burnley web if anyone remembered making spanish juice as kids ,we got a thick peice of spanish from the chemist ,added water and left it in the coal cellar for days ,giving it a shake now and then ,,,god it was lovely ,we took it on picnics with jam butties ,,,(oh memories)
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We used to make Spaish water!
I also used to make 'perfume' which looked very similar [brown & dirty looking] by putting rose petals in old pop bottles filled with water. l used to sell them door to door, [our poor neighbours!]
lt didn't have a name, but l hope Soft Mick would have been proud of me. Today l'd call it something catchy like 'Micky' [bit too much like 'Charlie',] or' ' Miss Micky', a lighter fragrance for a younger market.
:)
 
We had Corporation Pop and made Perfume wi Rose Petals.
I still tell the kids not to come running to me if they break a leg.
Vimpto lolly's dipped in cold water or making Oringe or lemon drinks by cumbling little tablets into cold water.
They tasted pretty awfull.
 
At the meet yesterday at The Stag, Lindsay Ormerod brought up the word 'camping' meaning talking. A phrase that raises a bemused smile when used outside of the Northwest.

"Bloody Nori, he's got more front than Blackpool, l saw him camping with Skennin' Emma, sayin' how he has more shoes than Soft Mick."
 
I thought it was only women who did camping, usually grumbled about by men who believed they had much more interesting conversations. My Dad "discussed topics of the day", my Mum and Gran "camped the neighbours", usually over the backyard wall with arms folded.
 
grannyclaret said:
my husband called me as daft as a boat horse this morning ,,,,whatever did he mean ,,,,,,,,,,lol
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Did you have your new teeth in? There's your answer Granny!

[only jokin' xxxxxx]
 
Never come across that one before, daft as a boat horse.
It's daft as a brush were i cum from.
 
ANNE said:
Never come across that one before, daft as a boat horse.
It's daft as a brush were i cum from.
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seems it had something to do with the horses that pulled barges on the canals ..in burnley there used to be a street called boat horse lane ,,dont know why they were daft though ..
 
Another saying that I think is fairly localised is Shanksey's pony.

It means walk, so obviously the Shankseys, whoever they were, didn't have a pony.

Has anybody heard of this phrase, and how far a field did it travel, the phrase not the pony.:p
 
Back to original question. Anyone found the origins of soft mick? He got around a bit as he was definitely in Preston where I grew up.
 
KIPAX said:
Back to original question. Anyone found the origins of soft mick? He got around a bit as he was definitely in Preston where I grew up.
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:eek: Mick came from Preston originally, but I don't think it was him, as the new pair of shoes he has are rubbing, so I doubt he's got more shoes than 'the' soft Mick.
 
At the risk of getting whooshed....... shoes?

soft mick usually used in the form of "more *** than soft mick"
 
It was mainly used in our house about someone having more shoes than soft Mick, and no it wasn't me.

I had two pairs of clogs, one for school and one for Sunday best.:(
 
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