If a carpenter is a 'chippy', a brick layer is a 'bricky' and an electrician is a 'sparks', why don't plumbers & plasterers have similar nicknames?
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OT: Nicknames?
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Leaky and splatty?
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Leaky...and loadsamunnee!
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The Medway Handyman coughed up some electrons that declared:
I saw plumbers being referred to as "pipe stranglers" the other day.
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Plasterers are spreads. I don't know what a plumber's called (behind my back :-))
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lemmy coughed up some electrons that declared:
Sounds more like nicknames from a retirement home for the incontinent...
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Not a mainline forces trade, so no nicks for them.
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How about....
Pipes & Smoothies :-)
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Well if a person who lops bits off trees is a "Tree Surgeon", then I guess a plumber ought to be a "U Bend Gynaecologist".
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More like a proctologist....
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Plasterer is a 'spread'
Anna
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What, as in Armed Forces? Is that where the other nicknames come from then?
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ROFLMAO
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John Stumbles wrote Plasterers are spreads. I don't know what a plumber's called (behind my back
Now we are getting somewhere!
Plumbers? Possibly 'leakies' or 'drips'?
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When I was in the RAF we called Radar Fitters Plumbers, because they worked on wave guides, I guess, which after all are only square pipes!
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We call plumbers 'Gibbons'
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A 'Danny'...the pipes, the pipes are calling...
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One of Spouse's many cousins was an electrician in the Army.
One day, in the 1950s, he was asked the usual line-up question about name, rank and number (in whatever order was required). He replied "48920472 Corporal Sparks, Sir" and was told that they knew his trade, what was his name?
It was Sparks.
Mary
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