Dick Turpin?

mushroom25 | 18:01 Mon 08th Aug 2022 | ChatterBank

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it would appear not -
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/20607739.parents-ask-york-dungeon-rename-rude-dick-turpin/

how far should we go in making efforts to avoid offence?

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davebro

pmsl - must tell my pal Dick Head

mushroom25

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// must tell my pal //

he'll have to be Richard Cranium now......

JimF

Wonder how they feel about:
Willie Thorne,
Fanny Blankers-Koen,
Judith Cock (aka Judith Durham)

wolf63

Did you see the name of the guy who wrote the article?

Canary42

These sort of anomalies will always crop up, and we rather make fools of ourselves in trying to steer round them.

The more senior folk will remember the famous `'the batsman's Holding the bowler's Willey.

They're really no more than harmless puns, and "victims" can just grin and bear it (or even bare it!).

Canary42

........ not to mention this one.

JimF

Not to mention Dick van Dyke whose real name, as any fule kno, was Penis van Lesbian.

douglas9401

Residents in the Cock Bridge/Tomintoul area have already formed an action committee to repel these vile people should they happen to arrive.

As for the good burghers of Bonkle...

johnny.5

why don't they just move their Dick into a part of Scunthorpe ?

Prudie

Dick Turpin? Definitely offensive but first they need to get the name of his horse changed. Horror of horrors she was called Black Bess.....

Peter Pedant

yeah I have heard the same for Fanny Price, heroine of Mansfield Park ( by Jane Austen you ignorant Proles)

opening scene of E.T.
young child - well he is just a pennis brain!
Darling I told you not to say that!

Bottom farm was renamed in West Darzet aaaargh years ago because the buyers wife thought it was rude. (Bottom is the lwest point between two hills, just for those who thought the plumbing was just bad

douglas9401