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i learnt about him from you.

I was 9 in 1985, just to make a contribution to this thread

Joey face to the power of fucking Joey face.

not harsh at all, the term "spastic" has only been deemed harsh since and outlawed as an acceptable term due to kids calling it each other as a term of abuse.. very possibly following the Joey Deacon story on Blue Peter.

beautifully circular.

Not only did the sound of kids "deaconing" ring throughout the classrooms of the 1980s in a wonderfully accurate appropriation of Joey's method of communication, but I even saw kids tucking their arms up under their sleeves, so that just the elbow was visible like a stump, and gleefully waving the supposedly stricken appendage along with the aforementioned facial expression and noise, best obtained by sticking the tongue behind the lower lip.

You had no idea of the Deacon?

you Joey, you spastic, you fucking Joey Fucking Deacon.

MMMNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGNNNNNN

now that's how it's done properly.

We've covered this before. The Spastic Society changed their name after the Deacon phenomenon, and became Scope, but now kids call other kids Scopers.

Anyone remember 'We're The Flids In America (Joey Face)'?

if i remember correctly the term "spanner" comes from the whole "spastic" / "spakker" thing too.. The Young Ones writers wanted to have them calling each other spackers in the script but obviously they just couldn't, so came up with spanner so the kids would know what they meant..

This is the Rik Mayall thing, not the Cliff thing.

When I was at school "Flidder" or "Flipper" was the choice of most, helpfuly accompanied by chicken wing like arm gestures to reinforce the point.

Flid's another marvellous term that could only come from the playground and from a certain era. Kids contribute so much to the expansion of language, it's mad. I say that wholeheartedly, even though the examples we're talking about are rough. There's an ingeniousness to them that adults don't get near unless they're stand-up comedians.

My mate was in a band, this band toured the USA, in one particular town they were surprised and excited to meet the actor, Morgan Freeman. A jovial and accommodating fellow, he agreed to pose for a photograph with the band. As they formed up for the picture, the band members suddenly decided to "pull a deacon", tongues forced into lower lips, arms and wrists bent and spasmodic as they did their best to achieve an impression of the famous Cerebral Palsy sufferer.

Now, Morgan Freeman, a traveled and educated man, showed no surprise nor shock and instead JOINED IN and threw together his best "deacon"

Yes, somewhere in a box, in a loft in Wood Green, there is a photo of this heartwarming moment.

haha

Not only did the sound of kids "deaconing" ring throughout the classrooms of the 1980s in a wonderfully accurate appropriation of Joey's method of communication, but I even saw kids tucking their arms up under their sleeves, so that just the elbow was visible like a stump, and gleefully waving the supposedly stricken appendage along with the aforementioned facial expression and noise, best obtained by sticking the tongue behind the lower lip.

yeah, we had the claw hands/stiffened muscles accompanying ours for when someone said something particularly stupid.. bizarre to think about it now. jeez. i wonder what kids do now to be as contemptuous.. probably shoot each other n stuff

Pout?

We also had 'lambfur' (attacking people by yanking the downy hair at the hairline on the back of the neck), 'slime' (gobbing all over palms and then smearing them down someone's cheeks), and my personal favourite 'suh' - pronounced /surrrr/ (a form of combat where to people stood grasping the others' cheeks between index finger and thumb, and then pulling apart, trying to split the other person's lip, until one admitted defeat). There was also 'hus', which was an inverse suhing contest, where you pinched the other person's face into an exaggerated pout until they gave up, but it proved less popular.

Did you go to gladiator school? Sounds a bit homo-erotic.

normal carrying on in libraries?

so it's not just me with a semi, then?

Just a normal Essex junior school playground.

There's always a ginger flashing his doughy cock in Essex playgrounds, yes.

law of the playground

we had knuckles, peanuts, and scabby queens

I was born in '85 and went to school in Yorkshire, if someone's collecting data for a graph about this or something

Pout?

HAHAHA - appropreate!!! Nice!

normal carrying on in libraries?

Silence is sexual, furrowed guilt in the air at all times.

This** must** be a wind up.
what is with the fucking lips thing???

I don't know but it strikes me as some sort of disenfranchised Italian-American youth looking to the *cooler *culture of previously-disenfranchised-black-but now-the-most-franchised-icons for mimicry.

i guess to add to that mildly racist observation... they still look like greaseballs.

They look like the result of a genetic experiment between the Fonze, Sonic the Hedgehog and a packet of Revels.