well I said couple of years ago that it would happen...I'd like to see a bunch of fuzzy wuzzies get accross the north channel........Belfast the new Calais
The North channel ....
Mar 12, 2019
Last reply: 7 years ago
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There is a term I've not heard for many many years. I don't think many people will know what you mean. If you know the real word, by use an obscure one? Brian
All I know about fuzzy wurries is that they don't like it up 'em.
Yes I think he means people from the 70s who all had permed hair like Gilbert Sullivan and the Stylistics, and even Leo Sayer! Brian
I thought it came from dads army.
and it was Gilbert O'Sullivan .
Perhaps David Essex and the one from the partridge family.
David Cassidy, SIL was mad on him when she was a teenager (wife was more a Donny Osmond fan).
Weren't the fuzzy-wuzzies the Sudanese natives we defeated at the battle of Omdurman (but not before they'd captured Khartoum and killed General Gordon)?
Another Dave.
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The they don;t like it up 'em. refers to this.
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