Hooray, my PC is now much better after some TLC from Mr B, so I can at last bring you the competition winners…
Six of you lovely people found the time in this mad month of novel writing, NanoBloMo, Thanks Giving, and Christmas shopping, to work out my semaphore message.
The answer was,
“Get your coat, you’ve pulled, you stud muffin.”
But, it seemed to confuse a couple of people…
In fact, the following phrases were used…
- I don’t get it
- It doesn’t make any sense
- What the hell does this mean
From the none UK based contingent.
So,
I’ll try to explain. You may be none the wiser at the end of this post…but you might just go away with a new chat up line and a little nugget of knowledge that might make you smile…or night not.
So,
When sweet young things go out to find themselves a bit of crazy lurve action over here in the UK, they are said to be ‘out on the pull’.
Often when I was young, free and single, the morning after a night of attending local hostelries with friends, my sister would ask, “Did you pull?”, meaning, ‘Did you get accosted by any snoggable eligible young males dearest sister?’
Generally, in my experience, when someone replies, ‘Yes, I pulled a very handsome young man, who was in no way improved by beer goggles‘, they do not actually mean they ‘pulled,’ as in tugged, yanked, dragged or hauled away any part of their clothing, or, erm, person.
That would be rude.
But merely that they pulled that person towards them through their own irresistible allure and magnetic personality. Like a moth to a flame, a monkey to a banana, or David Hasslehoff to pictures of cashew nuts that have been arranged into an effigy of the Queen mum. (Ok, I made the last one up.)
So the phrase, ‘Get your coat, you’ve pulled’ means, ‘Grab your warm outer garment dear. I quite fancy you. Let’s hot foot it out of here and get to know each other a little better.”
It’s a real phrase.
I promise.
In fact, today, in Tesco, as I shopped for my dad’s birthday cake, I snapped this, just for you…
Even though the lady at customer services was looking at me very suspiciously, and Mr B and the mini B’s were pretending they didn’t know me.
Even though the Tesco lady probably thought I was a spy from Asda or Sainsburys, sent to snaffle Tesco’s fine clothing ideas… or maybe she thought I was odd and was perhaps a bit scared??
And,
A ‘stud muffin‘ is an, erm, attractive male. (I you follow that link, I agree with number 2. The rest are a bit odd.)
It’s funny how we liken our ideal men, to, well, cake…
Mmmm, cake…
So there you go.
And the winner of this little piece of loveliness?
Why none other than hilarious blogger, creative writer and NanoWriMo/Bert winner…
Holly, at Oh How My Winter Nights Fly…
And runners up who were all correct and will receive bars of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, are…
The talented and funny Belle at Diary Of a Housewife
The wise and wicked Bellevelma at Running with Books
The fabulous Mrs Weasley
The clever and sassy and cool Miss Cami at Mommified Me (Bert babe)
The lovely and lovable Laurie at Three Dog Blog
and last but not least, the chic and charming Akelamalu at Everything and Nothing
Email me all your addresses when you get chance and I will send out prizes asap.
jo@jobeauoix.com
Yay. You all win chocolate and I might stick a gorgeous postcard from sunny Mansfield in too. (Hee hee).
P.S. If any of you have had the above chat up line used on them, or would like to share with us any you have experienced/used, then tell. We want to know.
My favourite one so far was when I was 18 and working in Ye Olde Ramme in the centre of Mansfield.
“You’ve got a ladder in your tights. Can I climb it?”
I did have a ladder.
I didn’t let him climb it.
And don’t I pull all the charmers?
Come on. Tell us your lines. I need to hear the cheese.
P.P.S. Thanks for all your support this month. You are amazing. 
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December 2nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
yay! chocolate!
just for the record, i did understand the “stud muffin” part. but i think there should be a comma after “coat,” dont you think? otherwise it sounds like it’s the coat that you pulled, and that made no sense at all.
my dad knew the flag alphabet. he used to edit a newspaper for sailors on the great lakes, and we had a big chart in the basement for many years–one of the flag alphabet, and another identifying all the smokestakes of all the lakers.
anyway….. I WILL SEND YOU MY ADDRESS BECAUSE I LOVE CHOCOLATE. and i am so thrilled to be among the glorious winners.
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Laurie, I ummed and ahhed about that comma, then I used the Tee shirt as my guide. I should learn not to rely on fabric. The comma is added, and you’re right. It reads better.
I think we probably nicked ’stud muffin’ from the folks over the pond too, but it’s good to have a genuine reason for printing fabulous pictures of cake in a post.
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:32 pm
YAY!!!!! I GET MULLET POWER!!! i SOOO was going to buy this for sh1ts and giggles one day in a weird mood at tesco. then i thought “no! go find a contest and WIN the dang thing! yes, (rolling hands around each other) THAT’S what i’ll do!!”
who knew that my quick understanding of british culture would enable me, someone who never kidnapped patty hearst, to win such a wonderful award. it is a tribute to britain it is.
i didn’t know semaphore before improv, which is to say one day i was in improv class and they said “okay, your character knows semaphore” and i said “who did what with the what, now?” and i looked a right twit. well, i thought if i’m going to look a twit again, which i will, it sure as hell won’t be for the same thing twice. so i familiarized myself. this is the same reason i am able to understand morse code, even when farted. but that’s another story. possibly one no one wants to hear.
i love that we both shop at tesco. i believe only the very best bloggers shop there. . .
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Hee hee. I love you Holly.
And I’m so glad you stopped yourself from buying Mullet Power, when there must be so many other mullet-based contests out there. I’ve bought it all my mates for Christmas. No really, I have, and one for me and Mr B too.
I can’t wait to look through it and see all the mullety goodness.
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Teehee.
I’ve never heard that phrase before, and I thought I’d heard most of the funny ones from the UK.
Learn something new every day!
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
actually, maybe it should be a semicolon…..
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
(if the t-shirt used the semicolon i would SO buy it. you just don’t see semicolons on tshirts the way you used to.)
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:30 pm
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate!
do you have my address already?
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:40 am
Darn. I had it figured out but then convinced myself that it was totally wrong. My husband, however, did find the envelope that I was working the phrase out on and boy, did I have some explaining to do.
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:35 am
Yay I won something! I really enjoyed doing the semaphore as well.
Love your explanation of the phrase. It’s that long since I was chatted up I can’t remember one chat up line!
I’m so pleased to have won something don’t bother sending me the chocolate babe let the little one have it. Thanks xxxx
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
“Come here often?”
That’s the only one that’s ever been used on me, and really the only one that I can think of that might not be rhetorical.
December 3rd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I feel all educated now. =P Yay for Holly!
Neil’s favourite line accompanies him waggling his eyebrows at me in a suggestive manner. He asks, “Feelin’ Frisky?” The king of romance, n’est-ce pas?
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Oh, sorry I am a bit late for this one, but so pleased to be among the winners! That was a fun puzzle to figure out! I’ll e-mail you my address soon
December 4th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Thalia’s child, I like to educate.
Cami, I need your address again as I’m not sure where your postcards are.
Lee, what are you like? And I take it your hubby understood.
Akela, I will buy chocolate for E and M and say it came from Mummy’s friend Akelamalu. x
Kim, hee hee. I love Neil.
Avery, it’s an oldy but a goodie.
Mrs Weasley, I will send you choccy soon.