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I was lounging around this morning for a couple of hours in my night attire, as one does on a Sunday morning, catching up on newspapers, doing crosswords and sudoku. When I said to my hubby "I'm having a real Rodney this morning" he hadn't a clue what I was talking about. Has anybody else heard this saying? I remember my Mom saying it when anybody was lazy, didn't want to go to work or school etc. Who on earth was Rodney?

he's that tall one from only fools and horses

Well it wouldn't be him would it?
Talking of Rodney did you see him last week as Rodney's dad in Rock and Chips? Really good.
BC could be referring to Rodney Marsh of OPR and England fame.He broke our hearts,West Brom Fans,in1967 at Wembley.We slept in St Johns Wood that night.
I had a mate at school called Rodney.Wasn't a common name back then.Rodney Goodenough!Wouldn't be him though would it?

yep my mother would describe someone as a rodney devil or a Rodney sod if they were being idle, depending upon her mood, I'd forgotten it , I have been looking for a suitable nickname for my husband for the last 25 years.
Alice

(ps Alice that is Robbie above you ......the one I warned you about....)
moaner alotta we call him
not sure if that is a BC saying...

Ive just been looking to see if I could find anything. I couldnt put it on here! The Australian meaning!
Some were refering to Rodney King who ws beaten up by police and was video taped.
Never heard it myself.
Jo

Alice that's me on top of you!!
What you on about NL??
It is a saying in parts of the Black Country isn't it.
What part are you from Alice ?

born tipton, live Coseley, family in Tipton, Sedgley and Gornal, Mothers family from Rowley and Dudley.
Alice

My Dad and his youngest sister having a conversation and aunt had just told dad about a womans dastardly deed.
Dad "Er day did er?"
Aunt "er did ar"
string it out erdaydidererdidar, it could be set to music..
another one , i've onny popped in to say ello ony i gorra goo cos i gorra come back.
love it
Alice

One of my daughters talk like that and she was born and lives in another country.
They say,moving off topic for a second which i dislike doing,that there are a clan of Hillbillies deep in the Apachalian(or something like that) in Tennesee that still speak with Black Country accents,Tipton i thiink!!

Yes I have heard that too.do you think they tell their kids to gerrout th'oss road?
years ago when I was a student nurse i removed an empty dinner tray from a lovely old lady ,Lizzie, not a bit of food was left
me "you enjoyedthat Lizzie?""
Lizzie "Arr it was moorish"
me "Oh were there peppersin it"
Lizzie"ay, peppers, w'on yo on about?"
me" red peppers Lizzie, you know Spanish, the spanish Moors andtheir influence on food"
Lizzie " No you saft sod it means i want moore"
i was young and innocent and moorish was not a phrase that my family used.
I started nurse training in 1982 and at that time I could pin point exactly which part of the Black Country people came from by the variations in their accent, amongst younger people that variation no longer exists, the area I work in now I come into contact with mainly young people the blackCountry way is changing. Alice

Alice wrote:I started nurse training in 1982 and at that time I could pin point exactly which part of the Black Country people came from by the variations in their accent, amongst younger people that variation no longer exists, the area I work in now I come into contact with mainly young people the blackCountry way is changing. Alice

I could do that as well Alice but all the local accents are merging into one and it's becoming difficult to pinpoint them.
Last time i was in England i was writing my bet out,as one does,when behind me this West Indian voice was yapping away to his mate.When i turned round it was a
young blue eyed Caucasian feller.Where'd that accent come from?

Wayhey somebody else has heard of the saying - Hello Alice. Years ago my hubby started going out with a girl from Quarry Bonk and when he heard her dad talking he couldn't understand a word he said and my hubby's from the Black Country. I had an Aunty who came from Quarry Bonk and when I was little, I just used to look at her mesmerised at the things she said. When they're talking it's almost as though they're singing, it's lovely - well my Aunty was any road up.

Rob wrote:

Alice wrote:I started nurse training in 1982 and at that time I could pin point exactly which part of the Black Country people came from by the variations in their accent, amongst younger people that variation no longer exists, the area I work in now I come into contact with mainly young people the blackCountry way is changing. Alice

I could do that as well Alice but all the local accents are merging into one and it's becoming difficult to pinpoint them.
Last time i was in England i was writing my bet out,as one does,when behind me this West Indian voice was yapping away to his mate.When i turned round it was a
young blue eyed Caucasian feller.Where'd that accent come from?

Accents are funny aren't they I have an elderly friend who has moved abroad - won't say where as don't want to embarrass the poor chap- and
his accents is well weird!
sort of hybrid....Black Country and emmm....double dutch really!!

I of course have kept my northern accent...even though my roots are deep Black Country and I have lived here now for over 10 yrs

Momwas from Rowley, Dad from Tipton, when dad took Mom home she could'nt understand a word my Grandad said and my dads younger brother and sisters used to ask my mom to say various things because they sounded so funny and were so different to the way they spoke, bit like my kids with my brother in law fro Northumberland they love to here him say boat or Cote du Rhone, just imaginre it i cant spell it how it sounds.
Alice