Especially for Steven
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Docker's nick-names
Especially for Steven
Go Go Go!!!
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The angry cat - He used to look down the hatch and say,
"Is Me owl man down there?"
The diesel fitter - Always picking things up and saying ,
"These will fit her."
Rembrandt - "Hang on a mo an' I'll put you in the picture."
The baldy Cat - Every time he got on the bus, he had no fare (fur).
Tarmac - "A pint please and one for the road."
I've started the ball rolling
The Balloon, don't let me down lads
The lenient judge 'Let that guy go'
(Guy rope for those too young)
Dockers Knicknames
"The Flea"
He was always 'jumping off the job'!
"The Lone sailor"
he's always in the Atlantic (Pub)
dockers names
'' the solicetor '' we will open this case here and that case there.......
Batman .....he never went anywere without Robin
The blister....... always turns up after hard work
keep them coming
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king
Glassback. Scared of a bit of hard graft.
The destroyer he was always after a sub
husky dock
Ron
The Prophet, "I can see nuttin' but trouble on dis one"
Nicknames were often passed down too, one docker "scabbed " a strike in the 40's and was dubbed Scabby thereafter,when his son became a docker he was immediately called Young Scabby.
Two more
Wonder boy, a wonder what's in this one
Lazy lawyer always lying on the case
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Dylan Thomas
The Good Shepherd, he was caught by old `One A Day`the policeman on the gate at the Gladstone. who always got one a day.
`Whats under yer coat,` and the docker said "I am just keeping this lamb warm" A frozen lamb off the meat boats.
Then there was the Priest always shouting down the Hatch , "Hey men"
[ amen].
Mick The Model. He always came to work in a suit.
The Blacksmith.
When the work turned up he always 'made a bolt' for the door.
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