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10 Oct 08 - 06:23 PM (#2462563) Subject: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Mo the caller Is the saying that someone who looks cold looks like a bit of 'frozen ossmuck' a common N Riding saying, or something that my inlaws invented? I never had encountered the substance till a few years back when helping to muck out a paddock in winter and it was stuck to the grass. |
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11 Oct 08 - 10:10 AM (#2462937) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: r.padgett Common as muck, yes! Dunt know this in South Yorkshire! |
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11 Oct 08 - 10:13 AM (#2462938) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: theleveller Never heard this before in any part of Yorkshire. |
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11 Oct 08 - 10:46 AM (#2462954) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: John MacKenzie Frozen horse puckey |
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11 Oct 08 - 04:31 PM (#2463197) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: stallion I have never heard the expression but North Yorkshire is a huge county, certainly not heard on the eastern seaboard of NY |
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11 Oct 08 - 04:58 PM (#2463213) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: GUEST,Chris Brownbridge Nor in York - I think it's an original from your informant. You are now a folk saying Collector! |
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11 Oct 08 - 05:52 PM (#2463244) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Willa No, never heard it; in any case I think it should be frozzen |
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11 Oct 08 - 06:09 PM (#2463263) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Uncle_DaveO I was puzzled at first at this noun. Then I realized there should be an apostrophe before it: 'ossmuck! All is clear! Dave Oesterreich |
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12 Oct 08 - 01:40 PM (#2463734) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Mo the caller In-Laws lived in Beverley. Do I assume that John MacKenzie has heard a similar expression, if so where? Willa, you're right, I can't spell. |
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12 Oct 08 - 01:54 PM (#2463744) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Seamus Kennedy Here in the U.S. I've heard as 'slow as frozen whaleshit.' So "as cold as frozen ossmuck (horseshit)" is a keeper! Seamus |
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12 Oct 08 - 01:56 PM (#2463746) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Seamus Kennedy Or 'as slick as shit through a goose'. How many shit-related folk-sayings can we come up with? Seamus |
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12 Oct 08 - 03:48 PM (#2463834) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Schantieman as fast as shit off a shovel S |
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12 Oct 08 - 04:27 PM (#2463868) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: jimL Never heard that saying ... my father used to call me "donkey drop" when I was little, if I did something stupid. Jim The Yorkshire Polymoth |
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12 Oct 08 - 06:17 PM (#2463936) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Gurney Don't know about frozen, but it was common to patch up wooden boats with Ossmuckantar. Fibre and a setting liquid, same principle as glassfibre. Two apostraphe needed there, DaveO. Is there a plural of apostraphe? Sometimes I wonder where all the stuff in my head came from, and why it is still there. |
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12 Oct 08 - 06:21 PM (#2463938) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Barbara slick as greased owlsh*t numerous as flies on sh*t and then there's all the "wrong end of the stick" expressions Blessings, Barbara |
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13 Oct 08 - 04:18 AM (#2464180) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: mouldy My Nottinghamshire husband used the "popular as pigshit" one, as do I. Then there's the "rare as rocking horse droppings" one. Andrea |
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13 Oct 08 - 10:04 AM (#2464361) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: GUEST,neovo Yorkshire's a big place. If this saying comes from Beverley they would say "frerzen ossmuck". |
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13 Oct 08 - 11:53 AM (#2464462) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: r.padgett It does not appear in Nigel Hudleston's Glossary of Yorkshire dialect sayings etc Must be a new 'un Ray |
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13 Oct 08 - 12:38 PM (#2464509) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Michael In Bolsover (Bowser), Derbyshire ,we would say "sticks like shit to a blanket" Mike |
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13 Oct 08 - 05:26 PM (#2464739) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Bernard As thick as pigsh*t - a slur on one's intelligence!! |
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13 Oct 08 - 05:55 PM (#2464755) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: terrier There y'go, must all be good old CHESHIRE sayings, they speke a language all of their own there."Dig the 'ossmuck afor the frost". Well I just made that one up :) "Sticks like shit to an Army blanket"(heard that one in Cheshire). |
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14 Oct 08 - 10:10 AM (#2465252) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Harmonium Hero "Happy as a pig in shit" "Never shit on your own doorstep" "Oh, shit! - I've left the iron on!" JK |
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14 Oct 08 - 10:45 AM (#2465289) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Seamus Kennedy "Hey, shit for brains.." In the military I believe chipped beef on toast was referred to as 'shit on a shingle.' About someone who was voraciously omnivorous: "he would eat the shit out of a dead man's arse." "He doesn't know shit from shinola." I'm surprised that Spaw hasn't jumped in here. Seamus |
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14 Oct 08 - 10:50 AM (#2465290) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Big Mick Actually, Seamus, the saying is: which describes a person of low character, or without scruples. |
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14 Oct 08 - 07:08 PM (#2465755) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Les from Hull "Sir Percival grinned like a fox eating shit from a wire brush." Robert Nye 'Merlin'. I think this is good enough to become a folk phrase. |
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15 Oct 08 - 11:19 AM (#2466316) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Seamus Kennedy Mick - that's an entirely different saying utilising the term 'whaleshit'. I wrote it the way I've heard it used, and as a connoisseur of fecal-related aphorisms, you should be familiar with the other. The super-model Claudia Schiffer is a highly intelligent woman with a genius IQ - according to MENSA. Which is why I was very complimented indeed when someone referred to me as "Schiffer brains". Seamus What, no Spaw yet? |
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15 Oct 08 - 11:21 AM (#2466318) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: wysiwyg "Pimple on the asshole of progress" is popular here. ~S~ |
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15 Oct 08 - 11:23 AM (#2466320) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: wysiwyg lower than whaleshit "Lower than goum." Goum being the stuff (shit) that sinks to the bottom of the sea. "Don't shit the nest." ~S~ |
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15 Oct 08 - 02:31 PM (#2466508) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Commander Crabbe In the Royal Navy we often got served "Shit on a raft" AKA devilled kidneys on toast! CC |
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15 Oct 08 - 02:50 PM (#2466521) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: GUEST Hello all. My father Larry and myself have been trying to contact John McGrath, the great singer from Northern Ireland who plays at the Dubliner in DC. Does anyone know how to contact him? Any help is greatly appreciated. My email is mike_kirk@wellsfargois.com Thanks-Mike |
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16 Oct 08 - 01:05 AM (#2466940) Subject: RE: Folklore: yorkshire saying 'frozen ossmuck' From: Seamus Kennedy Mike, if you PM me here at the Mudcat, I can give you the information. Seamus |