"I'm aye to get ma messages...." Where did the term messages come from?

And to think that somebody somewhere in glesga has shoved their granny aff a bus and then went around singing aboot it. I demand to know how songs like that start. Very weird topic yet the song caught on

 

I think it comes from Cockney rhyming slang John, Dancing pairs= stairs.

 

awa n bile yer heid
your geein me the boak mate

 

Do you remember the rag and bone man that used to come round?

Always good for a balloon.

 

I do, just called him the Rag man, did you live there as well ?

 

Yes mate, born and bred in a tap dancer in Tongland

 

Calton Tongs and San Toi and I love the Barras..
It was always a great experience. Mind that guy Puppet? Used to see him there all the time....then realised he was on youtube years later

 

I did for the first 2 years of my life.

My Grannie moved there in 1953 (Lennihall), da and siblings were raised there. I used to go and stay with my Grannie regularly so that's were I know the rag man from.

Found this photo on the Internet ages ago...

 

Small world mind

my old man was brought up in Lennihall

We lived at top of Castlemilk Drive

cracking pic that mind

 

Aye mad puppet was some guy, absolutely honkin n the biggest alkie nose ye'll ever see but some laugh on him and patter was top notch.

 

Big Celtic man aswell. His nose got worse as time went on. That's what alcohol will eventually do to ye I suppose.

You had folk like him who, when u think about it, could have been taking advantage of very easily. But folk took care of him. He could walk round that Barras talking to everyone, all day.

He telt me he used to go all the way to a pub in Royston Road cause the woman there would give him tick. He'd owe all the pubs 20 quid and move onto the next one

 

Or if you were really lucky, he'd give you a wee toy. I remember getting a wee toy aeroplane of him once. Made my young day

 

If there was a gang of weans playing in the street there was nothing like the Rag mans trumpet to get them scurrying up the close to get any wee bit of clothing the Mammy deemed old/holey/ oily enough to get rid of.

 

My family always called us weans, being northern Irish it sounded like ‘waynes’ so it’s only till fairly recently I actually realised it means wee-uns and there’s no one really called wayne lol

 

I still say stop acting the goat to my weans and yer * is oot the windae if theyre talking *

Away and pap pokes a * at the moon is one my granny and granda always said aswell if ye were asking them for too much

Hate the fact half of Glesga talks like mad gimps these days.

 

“Catch yersel on”

as in ‘have an epiphany of sorts’,

 

I used to stay sometimes with my Gran in Barrowfield .….Rag n Bone man came round.Got toys for old clothes : plastic soldier with a parachute/small water gun ….good times

 

I remember that slightly different as "away and throw * at the moon" another was calling an ice cream cone a pokey hat, is it still called that or has it been renamed with a * Americanism?

 

My Da was a lover of a 'pokey hat'. One Saturday afternoon, we were all in and he heard the ice cream van. He said , in a loud voice, "who wants a poke?" He didn't realise what he'd said until we all finished laughing.

 

Sadly just a cone these days