to think that calling a baby's dummy a tit or a titty is yuk?

[MotherOfNations]

I don't know if this is a u.k wide thing but here in Glasgow so many people call a baby's dummy a tit or titty. It sounds vile .I used to hate it when my little ones had dummies and some old man would bend over the Pram and say " awww baby are you sucking your tit"?

Aye. But only if he wis girnin. Or an affa case.

I think a keen far he's fae!

anyone remember skinny malinky lang legs? Me and my brother used to sing this all the time.

My parents had a holiday flat in Spain when I was wee. One night mammy went out "gallivanting" all night leaving me in the tender care of daddy and my vast array of dummies (one of which had the figure of a chickens head on top).

Waking up in the night and finding myself dummy-less, I apparently started screaming for my "pollo chupete" (chicken dummy) and my father, not speaking the lingo, had to endure an entire night, or so he tells it, filled with relentless Poltorgeist style wailing and shrieking for "POLLO CHUPETE POLLO CHUPETE POLLO CHUPETE" until mumsy returned the next morning and enlightened him.

My mum (Irish) used to call bottle teats 'tits' and would follow me around Boots cos l was trying desperately to run away as l knew what was coming shouting 'Sudaname are you wanting any tits while we're here'.

Big Banana Feet.

(how did the rest go?)

Skinny malinky long legs
big banana feet
went tae the pictures and couldnae find a seat
when the picture started
skinny malinky farted
skinny malinky long legs
big banana feet
lol

Ma maw's a millionaire
Blue eyes and curly hair
Sitting among the Eskimos
Playing a game of dominoes
Ma maw's a millionaire.

in my head doupe always had an e on the end.

this always sticks in my head...

skinny malinky long legs,
big banana feet

went tae the pictures and couldnae get a seat

when the picture started,
skinny malinky farted...

there must be more?

we used to sing umbrella feet :) i think we used to be in fits at the word farted, in a song! soooo childish :)

i fell asleep and someone beat me to skinny malinky!

Mrs Maguire peed in the fire
Fire too hot
Peed in the pot
Pot too wide
Peed in the Clyde
And all the wee fishes
Swam up her backside

I had no idea how to spell doup and just went for what looked phonetically right. Doric seems to be about guessing for me.

there wis jelly, jelly like (name's) belly
in the store, in the store,
there wis jelly, jelly, like (name's) belly
in the cooperative store!

My eyes are dim I cannot see
I have not got my specs with me
I have not got my specs with me

There wis cheese, chees,
like (name's) knees.....

and so on and so forth.

eggs....like legs.
bread...like head. etc

i think my mum and dad used to sing it without the farted i must have just worked out what rhymed eventually.

i went to the pictures the morra, took a front seat at the back, a wifie gave me an orange, i ate it and gave it her back,

But i cannae mind the rest of it. Must be getting old!

i have to say your doup looks better than mine jolly. I've never seen it written down right enough.

I CAN CONFIRM Glickmans sweetie shop on London rd has lucky tatties. They are also available at Mrs Mitchell's sweetie shop on trongate, as are tiny tatties, soor plooms ( for the making of soor ploom vodka), irn bru bars, creamola foam and all the rest.

I've always known it as a dummy tit....and called titty's by grannies.

JollyHockeySticks - would your dad come from a place that shares a name with a cheap fortified wine drunk by neds by any chance?! :)

For some reason, we always sang the jelly, jelly, like....HITLER's belly (and other body parts at guides....no idea why!! And the clappa handies rhyme went

Clappa clappa handies
Daddy's coming home
with pennies in his pockets
for (Iheartmycat) alone

My fave remains :
Oh you canny chuck pieces out a 20 storey flat
30 thousnd hungry weans will testify tae that
If the peice be cheese or jelly
if the bread be plain or pan
the chances ae it reaching earth
and 99 tae wan!!

i hope you've not all gone to sleep. I'll have to talk to myself.

oops - ARE 99 tae wan!!

Still here jaggy

Highland toffee bars. They used to be 10p and i'd buy ten of them with my £1 pocket money. Clearly mum didn't know!

Right we've been through dummies,tits, sweeties and songs. What next?