CARICATURE - FOOTBALL FANS

On the brush – I couldn’t afford store-bought ones.

How wude!!!! Please don’t kick a man when he’s down Dave, particularly in his stitches. Did I tell you I painted Sylvia in the nude once, but I was too cold to enjoy it….and couldn’t get the paint off my extremities.

Now you’ll have everyone wondering what bumsizzling is again – blabbermouth! Just means brain puzzled but to near a terminal degree. Worzel Gummage, the scarecrow, made it up.

Yep!, it’s a guy’s humour thing Kate. We fellas like inuendo for subtle jokes, the best form of humour rather than the blatant swearing stuff. It’s the kind of thing I could tell my innocent maiden aunt without her taking offence (bearing in mind she’s a bit slow these days). Got to say that our bunch of blokes are all happily married and straight, but we do like a chuckle.

Yes, that’s me up there but you’d have to stick a trim beard on that caricature – my wife says anything that hides some of my face is worthwhile. Thanks for your kind words Kate.

Thanks a bundle George. As mentioned to Kate, Dave and I and a few friends tend to the inuendo and ragging each other for laughts. With a joke like yours (below the belt) you’re very welcome to join our humour club. But, as I tell Sylvia, if you can’t take a joke then don’t support Newcastle. She’s got her black arm band washed and ironed. See you Friday.

That sound fatalistic but a pretty good bet David. When I see fans in tears and self-harming I thank goodness I’m not one of them. The studs are a symbol of the days when the Toon was top.

Can’t tell a lie, I don’t have a beret Linda – artist’s licence. I think half the fun of caricatures is the banter which comes back from those kind enough to reply – I sometimes think the picture is secondary to the chat. And how good it is that we seem to have formed a little club of old (and young) faithfuls being so supportive of each other.

I see you are almost daily getting your great work being featured in vairous groups Linda. And so well deserved.

Hi Lynda. And yes we can go on meeting like this…..my wife says, as it keeps me out of her way for a while.

You mentioning trying to stifle your belly laughs come too close to a similar problem i have after my operation – it hard to keep it in, un-stifleable in fact but one has to make the effort to be sociable and keep friends. Did I tell you I want to start a club for made-up words?

You just saved me having to explain all over again about how some folk might misunderstand we men’s sense of humour – please read my reply to Kate.

Ah well, i suppose I must get back to painting – it’s all go!......or not depending on the laxatives.

Your features deserve the praise Linda.

Tried everything to get her to believe ‘IT’S ONLY A GAME’ but nowt works Lensman. She still goes to see them (lose) and come home full of angst and new swearwords. Says she enjoys it. There’s no cure you know.
If you just make that ‘tha’s’ a ‘yus’ or ‘ya’ (as in ‘Wehy ya bugga’ you could cross the Tyne without a passport. We Geordies welcome annybody what can tagk proppa.

Deleted? – ah was ower the moon wi ya comment chavva.

Ay wahy, George they say – them foreigners – is one of the hardest twangs to get the hang of Lensman. Just as weel I suppose ‘cos while it’s canny to us locals, it’s a right bugga for others ti understand. That bloke wot does the darts commentries is way off the mark.

Incidently, yor right welcome up heea but please divvint mention Sndlnd ;cos yill have ti wesh your mooth out. I guess if you can interpret that lot you’ve passed the test and can be classed as sudo Geordie….second class of course.
Wot cheer chavva,

There yi gan agane, yi very ni sed that word for a seckind time Lenaman. Yul finish up in the clarts usin language like that up here mind. Mind there’s some folk up here what are posh and divvint tak like this. Some o them have plums in their gobs – mare like prunes ti me – and get al hoyti-toyti; they tend to live in Gosforth or Poneland. The late comedien Bobby Thomson was a great educator in Geordie.

I must say you are getting the hang of this quite canny so reckin if you keep doin this homeworrk am givin yi then yi just might get a gold star.

Oddly we just got the best book I’ve ever seen about the Geordie dialect and habits but I think it is a vanity publication and there are very few copies. Must give you some examples from it if you want more homework. Here’s something to be going on with; what’s a cuddy, ya honkas and being scranny?

Thanks Colin. Yet supporting the Toon must be a little like banging ya heed with a hamma and telling everybody how enjoyable it is.

Cheers Mate.

I stopped driving myself wacky ages ago and let others do it for me now. Thanks Barb, hope things are going your way.

To me supporting the Toon is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. Unfortunately my wife is wearing a black arm band and is almost in depression seeing she cares so much.

And how nice to wake up to find an old picture of mine has been dug out and gained such an encouraging comment. Thanks Karen, I greatly appreciate that.