Hatchet job from the Herald on Lineham

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https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/columnists/23733367.nobodys-laughing-graham-linehan-stand-up-row-rumbles/

But the comments disagree.

Barry does not seem to have much cultural significance…

Gosh, equal mixture poisonous rant, equal part empty words.

"Was feted"...that's like saying re JKR "previously revered".

Now we are dissing straight white men for not having enough skin in the game of knowing what a woman is - how far will this madness go?

'a small crowd of mostly elderly onlookers' - you what, mate? What is it with the desperate, desperate attempts to claim people are 'old' as if tht means they are subsequently unpersonned?

It was bad enough when monkeys with bare English comprehension became rock music critics. Now they even think they can comment on news.

Is it just me sniggering at the name?

Nic should’ve let Covid kill ‘em all!

(disclaimer: I obviously don’t mean this)

TBH with a name like that I'd assume he's a drag artist, in the style of Cheryl Hole. Surely no one is actually called Didcock????

He really thinks his rag is so NME circa 1976/76, reporting in how punk will tear down the establishment.

I'd put the TRA Terf/Karen/oldies ranting fairly in Rick from The Young Ones territory.

Then again, I seem to recall punk, Rick etc, had no time for the establishment, whereas this bunch of modern day revolutionaries put all their trust in big pharma and politicians.

We had a teacher called Mr Grewcock, in hindsight he had balls not to change it

Not sure why this didn't post correctly and it will have probably posted twice now!

We had a teacher called Mr Grewcock. In hindsight he had balls not to change it

There are numerous surnames ending in -cock, some well-known like Hancock, Hitchcock and Babcock.

They are double diminutive personal names, formed from a pet form of a given name, usually Norman French, with the Middle English diminutive suffix -cok. For instance Hitchcock is from Hitch, a pet name for Richard.

However, i can't find any trace of a surname Didcock recorded, and I can't think what 'Did' would be a pet form of.

Grewcock is one of the diminutive names from names of birds, in this case from 'grew', Middle English meaning 'crane'.

Presumably an ancestor was a tall, thin, long-legged bloke.

Yeah, I know @Chersfrozenface but Barry Didcock seems a bit like a smutty joke i.e. Barry did cock ha ha. Maybe I'm the smutty one?

I once knew a Shakeshaft. That always made me snigger.

His article is very meh! Put me in mind of that 'savaged by a sheep' comment that I'm probably misquoting.

We had a policeman in my home town whose surname was Balls. He changed it to Ball 😆

People shorten their names very often, Did- from Diddle-.
Don't know why, this guy is diddling about trying to be a journalist.

I think Diddlecock might be worse tbh 😂

And where have all the Bottoms gone? Other than in place names they seem to have all become Botham.

We had one called Haycock! I mean why?

@cheezncrackers he should have gone undercover and become a secret policeman.

I sniggered. And I did suspect a made up name.

However a surname site does say there are about 300 people in the world called Didcock, so the name exists but is very rare and there seems to be no hint of its origin or meaning

JK kept the flame burning with Neville’s Long one!

Probably like Heacock from the Old English name Heah, possibly influenced by the common noun 'haycock', a small conical pile of hay stacked in a hayfield while the hay is awaiting removal to a barn.

If it's anything like the fairly common Scottish name 'Cockburn' you don't pronounce the second 'c' - Co-burn.