cockenese names for your tools

[rumrunner]

hi,
just to start you off , "jack the ripper",(the cable stripper),
get the drift ,anyone know any more?

 

[supasparx]

Gary or Phillip Neville = Spirit level

Johnny Depps = Steps

Mike Myers = Pliers

 

[Shakey]

Patio Heater

erm....multimeter

and Dave Cripps

Snips

i went to school with dave cripps, so i realise its not really a common slang term.....

i 'll make up some more later

 

[randyrat]

Hengmee......

For anything that you just can't quite remember it's name....usually used in the following kind of situation....

"Pass me the wotsit, will you?"
"Which wotsit"
"You know....the Hengmee"

Often accompanied by finger pointing and random mime movements demonstrating the correct use of the Hengmee.



randyrat

 

[rumrunner]

Dave cripps i like that one ,much more than the common old "fish and chips"

 

[wayne]

well we've got the "knocking stick " or the manchester screwdriver not exactly rhyming slang but there you go

 

[rumrunner]

Yeah
,knocking stick ,or as i say give it a bit of H ,as in enerys ammer
ive got 2 little and large ,maybee ill start calling them sid and eddie .
atvbitwww

 

[Bane]

Hammer= Hammer
Level= Level
Screwdriver=Screwdriver

Etc.

 

[wayne]

bane= bane (as in bane of my life )

etc

 

[Cirrus]

bane = bane of OUR life

 

[Shakey]

ah --- on, leave Bane alone

he's learnt to spell the name of his tools





he'll be USING the bugg@*&s next


oh and another one

flutch snizzle = scutch chisel


jeez i'm bored

 

[LukeScotty]

Monkey's Tail - Nail
Tea Leaf - Thief

 

[wayne]

we all love bane and his spellchecker!!!

 

[Bane]

Using my tools?

That's a running joke onsite now. I always borrow everyone elses tools.

They ask where's my tools, "In my toolbox stupid"

I want to keep them looking shiny and new...

 

[Cirrus]

Ah, so you also sit and watch the sparks do the work too eh saying " I gotta learn haven't i?"

Lazy ****






(Jokin buddy)

 

[ian.settle1]

Monkey's Tail - Nail
Tea Leaf - Thief

What type of tool is a thief

OOOOPs on second thoughts, a F****** BIG TOOL for pinching your tools in the first place.

 

[Bane]

Ah, so you also sit and watch the sparks do the work too eh saying " I gotta learn haven't i?"

Lazy ****






(Jokin buddy)

You've seen me "work" then cirrus?

 

[john_smiff]

tapometer= hammer

 

[Spudmiester]

At one firm we made our own language up.

Grypes - Grips

Movers - Adjustable Spanner

Spadgers - Spanners

drin - Soldering Iron

Shoom of doom - Toilet (dont ask)

Skell - ****

Skelly - ****ty

Skell Shed - Toilet

 

[Carter]

Yeah
,knocking stick ,or as i say give it a bit of H ,as in enerys ammer
ive got 2 little and large ,maybee ill start calling them sid and eddie .
atvbitwww

You mean 50-thou and 25-thou adjusters?

 

[john_smiff]

Percy (as in sledge) = sledge hammer

 

[CUDABOY]

roger moore and tony curtis, my hammer and lumphammer aka the perswaders............. soz spelling. doobrie was a term for whatsit,thingymejig

 

[mpfisher@hotmai]

Dannys (Danny Dyers) Pliers
Aprils (April Fools) Tools
Simon (Simon Cowell) Trowel........ for us who patch up after ourselves.

Mark

 

[jeremy]

Shola (Ama) - Hammer
Scratchos - sandpaper
(Sam) Bucca - Chaser
Shaka (Demus and)- Pliers
Gak - Chisel
Chauffeur - driver
not exactly diminuitives but keeps every one else on site guessing

 

[Carter]

tapometer= hammer

Knockometer - as above

 

[mpfisher@hotmai]

Knockometer - as above

3 Words !! That's not like you Carter

Mark

Slight tangent but heard this from a plasterer today "you coming outside for a guinie"

guine pig = cig

it tickled me and i dont even smoke

Mark