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did she say 'GLORY-HOLE'??????

posted 19 years ago by ronin1138
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Errm yeah, maybe it was just a BBC in-crew joke like the writers of Captain Pugwash did with the names of the ships crew and the magic roundabout etc. Which makes us chuckly now, however the mother in the program when describing an incident in the house when she was trapped in the understairs cupboard, she says that her ex-husband used it as a dark room and called it his 'glory-hole'.
In America a 'glory-hole' is a term used by toilet traders, a large hole at waist height is drilled in the parting walls of the cubicals and, well you get the idea.

Maybe the writers were bored and wanted to see if they could get away with it, and why not.
Still the programs a classic.

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[–] themightymartin 19 years ago

Yes she did say "Glory-Hole", but words can have different meanings. And by the way, the Captain Pugwash names you refer to are nothing but urban legends. There was never a character called Seaman Stains or Roger the Cabin Boy etc.

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[–] owaingill 19 years ago

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[–] raypdaley182 19 years ago

nope, WRONG - guess again.

His name was Master Mate - You misheard it!

[–] owaingill 19 years ago

whoops -so theres no 2nd mate w.anchor then, nevermind......

[–] calindreams 16 years ago

I must say I did find it funny when I heard her say it.

[–] TooDarnLoud 15 years ago

Pugwash is a victorian slang word for "blowjob"

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[–] hipsterleg 19 years ago

I'm sure it's not a cheeky reference to American slang, it's actually quite a common term used in the UK to describe a cupboard or cubby hole that is just used to store stuff there isn't room for elswhere, a cupboard under the stairs being a good example. No in-jokes I'm afraid.

[–] Frin 16 years ago

I'm from the UK (North of England). My neighbour calls her cupboard (upstairs) a glory hole, so it is slang here but the only places I've personally heard it are from her and from Ghostwatch. My family has always called the same type of over-the-stairs walk-in cupboard a "bogeyhole"... no idea why.

I would call the type of cupboard in Ghostwatch simply "the cupboard under the stairs" though. :smile:

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[–] neonwraith 16 years ago

- I'm from the UK (North of England). My neighbour calls her cupboard (upstairs) a glory hole, so it is slang here but the only places I've personally heard it are from her and from Ghostwatch. My family has always called the same type of over-the-stairs walk-in cupboard a "bogeyhole"... no idea why. -

It's from the same Norse or Saxon Eytomology. It's sometimes called a Baggey Hole in certain penine parts.

[–] persistenceofvision 15 years ago

10 years ago I was in Stratford-on-Avon with a Scouse friend of mine. We passed a small teashop called 'The Glory Hole', and he started laughing hysterically...

[–] dannyray753 14 years ago

the whole time i was waiting for some one to drop there pants and ask were the glory-hole was LOL

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[–] alexanderreid19 14 years ago

No, a glory hole is where you get all the Gold and Silver Ore!

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[–] bgh122 13 years ago

I'm from London, England and to us a 'glory-hole' is a hole in a toilet wall through which homosexual men commit sexual acts. I personally doubt this was the case in 1992, when the show first aired.

[–] the_chavie 13 years ago

I think the term was used to describe a small storage space, cupboard etc way before it's modern gay meaning, almost every time I have heard the term it's been said by pensioner aged people, don't forget even the word gay ment feeling happy back then also, they sure were the gay old days lol.

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[–] bluesonik 13 years ago

I'm from Lancaster (North Lancashire, close to Cumbria / Lake District), and we usually use the term 'cubby-hole' to refer to a small cupboard such as the one seen in Ghostwatch.
I have also heard the term 'glory-hole' used, but by grandparents / older people. Most people these days would immediately think of it's naughtier meaning!
Funnily enough, I remember older people using the term 'gay' meaning happy / jolly. I'm in my mid-thirties now so we're not talking too long ago!

[–] fat-sheep 12 years ago

"THE CATS IS IN THE GLORY HOLE!" I cried with laughter.

[–] Rayvio 9 years ago

keep in mind this is from 1992. not sure if "glory hole" was even in use in the states that far back but it certainly wasn't in the UK. this was a time when relatively few people had satellite TV and the regular channels only showed a handful of US shows so US slang took a long time to cross the pond, if it ever survived the trip
there's definitely no way the BBC would have used such a term purposely, especially back then when they were widely considered as the most family friendly TV

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