Johnny Haddo, GeNt_
@johnnyhaddo.bsky.social
Welcum to Storyville,
Here Comes Everyone..
The Confidence-Man, with his 'Raree-Show',
the New Missionary Times;
hereby hangs the tale,
Ils ont vécu, ri, aimé et sont partis;
they lived, laughed, loved and left_
Here Comes Everyone..
The Confidence-Man, with his 'Raree-Show',
the New Missionary Times;
hereby hangs the tale,
Ils ont vécu, ri, aimé et sont partis;
they lived, laughed, loved and left_
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So, time for a new update of GDoS. I think #37 since the online launched in October 2016. Full, or so I like to believe, of the usual selection of louche goodies. Available on line now, and to accompany it, so too is my latest substack:
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
It’s Update Time!
#37 October-December 2025
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January 5, 2026 at 3:37 PM
So, time for a new update of GDoS. I think #37 since the online launched in October 2016. Full, or so I like to believe, of the usual selection of louche goodies. Available on line now, and to accompany it, so too is my latest substack:
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
🙃..nake room for the raspberry_
My thanks to the steady flow of new followers/subscribers to Mister Slang at substack. The least I can do is offer you something to chew on:
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
Bellyfuls and Blow-offs
Get yer larfin’ tackle round this lot
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January 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
🙃..nake room for the raspberry_
Sound advice when one was thirty one!
Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
On January 1, 1943, the American folk music legend Woody Guthrie jotted in his journal a list of 33 “New Years Rulin's.' Nowadays, we'd call them New Year's Resolutions. Adorned by doodles, the list i...
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January 1, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Sound advice when one was thirty one!
🙃a rather strange tome to be gifted on Chrimbo afternoon: for one that has no real interest in fucking ley lines, earth mysteries smelly old hippy combos, or drawing on the ceiling with two left hands!
December 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🙃a rather strange tome to be gifted on Chrimbo afternoon: for one that has no real interest in fucking ley lines, earth mysteries smelly old hippy combos, or drawing on the ceiling with two left hands!
Johnny Ace - Never Let Me Go 1954 Duke 132 78rpm(original song).
YouTube video by doowopAmnon
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December 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🙂A Valiant Knight, eh?
Obviously, a Milky-Bar Kid!
Obviously, a Milky-Bar Kid!
A new hero of slang - Peter Corris and his noir hero Cliff Hardy - and a minuscule counterblast to today's Bondi horrors. open.substack.com/pub/jonathon....
Heroes of Slang: Peter Corris (1942-2018)
I don’t know, how about #24
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December 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🙂A Valiant Knight, eh?
Obviously, a Milky-Bar Kid!
Obviously, a Milky-Bar Kid!
...my aunt fanny!🙃
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
...my aunt fanny!🙃
🙂Jonathan Frid
🙃Barnabas Collins_
🙃Barnabas Collins_
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🙂Jonathan Frid
🙃Barnabas Collins_
🙃Barnabas Collins_
🙃Dance floor priorities for those of a certain age!
The national anthem of, I'm not going home alone tonight_
The national anthem of, I'm not going home alone tonight_
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
🙃Dance floor priorities for those of a certain age!
The national anthem of, I'm not going home alone tonight_
The national anthem of, I'm not going home alone tonight_
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Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
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Remembering legendary saxophonist Roland Alphonso who died on this day in 1998.
Roland played in The Skatalites and Soul Vendors.
Here's his great version on Pat Kelly's How Long Will It Take, introduced by Don Tony Lee...
youtu.be/9-o76_6vezA?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
Roland played in The Skatalites and Soul Vendors.
Here's his great version on Pat Kelly's How Long Will It Take, introduced by Don Tony Lee...
youtu.be/9-o76_6vezA?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Remembering legendary saxophonist Roland Alphonso who died on this day in 1998.
Roland played in The Skatalites and Soul Vendors.
Here's his great version on Pat Kelly's How Long Will It Take, introduced by Don Tony Lee...
youtu.be/9-o76_6vezA?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
Roland played in The Skatalites and Soul Vendors.
Here's his great version on Pat Kelly's How Long Will It Take, introduced by Don Tony Lee...
youtu.be/9-o76_6vezA?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
🙃..an ex-pat is one with a better skincare routine and a rosé budget_
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🙃..an ex-pat is one with a better skincare routine and a rosé budget_
🙃..with a mouth more accommodating than a Billingsgate halibut, eh?
Time for a subtack: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
A short ramble through slang's use of (some) proper names (below: 'Cooter Brown')
A short ramble through slang's use of (some) proper names (below: 'Cooter Brown')
The Proper Improper
Naming Slang's Names
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November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🙃..with a mouth more accommodating than a Billingsgate halibut, eh?
Who's knows their song well, before they started singing?
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Who's knows their song well, before they started singing?
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The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments of the 20th Century” (1965)
The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments of the 20th Century” (1965)
Howlin’ Wolf may well have been the greatest blues singer of the 20th century. Certainly many people have said so, but there are other measurements than mere opinion, though it’s one I happen to share...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments of the 20th Century” (1965)
🙃..infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!
The revenge of Kenneth Williams_
The revenge of Kenneth Williams_
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🙃..infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!
The revenge of Kenneth Williams_
The revenge of Kenneth Williams_
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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😎hopefully, this little gem will be available from 28.11.2025, Record Store Day Uk_
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
😎hopefully, this little gem will be available from 28.11.2025, Record Store Day Uk_
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Meet the Man Who Created the Iconic Emblem of the Day of the Dead: José Guadalupe Posada
Meet the Man Who Created the Iconic Emblem of the Day of the Dead: José Guadalupe Posada
Odds are you’re acquainted with the lady pictured above.
She’s called La Catrina, and her likeness adorns countless t-shirts and tote bags.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfw9Jb3oVjU
She is a popul...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Meet the Man Who Created the Iconic Emblem of the Day of the Dead: José Guadalupe Posada
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RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
RIP Peter Watkins: his film The War Game is the most frightening I’ve ever seen: it changed my life when I saw it at 15. Nothing was the same afterwards. I wrote about it at length in 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded
🙃Askhole!
A person who repeatedly asks for advice but never follows it_
A person who repeatedly asks for advice but never follows it_
November 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
🙃Askhole!
A person who repeatedly asks for advice but never follows it_
A person who repeatedly asks for advice but never follows it_
🙂..that's me sorted, the new revised edition of verbal foulage that will disgrace any self-respecting bookshelf is arriving just in time for Chrimbo!
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🙂..that's me sorted, the new revised edition of verbal foulage that will disgrace any self-respecting bookshelf is arriving just in time for Chrimbo!
🙃a wandering tome that rewards the wandering reader!
no need to start at page one, Buck Mulligan & Stephen Dedalus can wait if you prefer to crash land elsewhere_
no need to start at page one, Buck Mulligan & Stephen Dedalus can wait if you prefer to crash land elsewhere_
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🙃a wandering tome that rewards the wandering reader!
no need to start at page one, Buck Mulligan & Stephen Dedalus can wait if you prefer to crash land elsewhere_
no need to start at page one, Buck Mulligan & Stephen Dedalus can wait if you prefer to crash land elsewhere_
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From Ultima Thule to B. Luther Hatchett, slang's take on far, far away: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
Faraway Places
A mystery tour, magic or otherwise
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October 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
From Ultima Thule to B. Luther Hatchett, slang's take on far, far away: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...
Wanty! Wanty!!
1930s Phonograph Doubled as an Alarm Clock, Letting People Start Their Day with Their Favorite Record
1930s Phonograph Doubled as an Alarm Clock, Letting People Start Their Day with Their Favorite Record
The Deutsches Uhrensmuseum introduces the French-made Peter Pan clock above as follows:
Even as early as 1930, people were trying to find a way to replace the unpleasant sound of the alarm clock. The ...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Wanty! Wanty!!