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Polari is the language gays used to use before they were legalised.
If you ever catch a recording of Round the Horne from the early 1960s on BBC Radio 7, then a guiy called Kenneth Williams speaks polari in his role as Jules the Hairdresser. It was incomprehensible to the stuffy people of the time, so only those in the know got the full joke.
There has been a totally time-wasting project which I thinkk has now been completed in translating the Bible into polari.
Jesus’ disciples are the girls, God is Gloria. You get the gist.
I find it funny, picking out my favourite passages of the Bible to read about Jesus and the girls (soz Josie and the Girls), but not sure anyone else will find it anything but boring, certainly compared with 50 shades and the secret life of walter.
if anyone wants the link to the Polari version of the Bible, let me know.
There is also a lol-cat version, but this is not so funny (to me)
Both versions are living proof that JustChat is not the only way in which to waste a God-given life lol
oh, dear, no Christians here??
well, here’s the link for the truly devoted..the Bible in polari –
http://www.thesisters.demon.co.uk/bible/
click on the html version
Picadilly Palare – Morrissey
Off the rails I was and
off the rails
I was happy to stay
GET OUT OF MY WAY
on the rack I was
“easy Meat”
but a reasonably good buy
a reasonably good buy
the Piccadilly palare
was just a silly slang
between me and the boys in my gang
“so bona to vada, OH YOU
your lovely eek and
your lovely riah
We plied an ancient trade
where we threw all life’s
instructions away
exchanging lies and digs (my way)
well, in a belted coat
oh I secretly knew
that I hadn’t a clue
the Piccadilly palare
was just a silly slang
between me and the boys in my gang
exchanging palare
you wouldn’t understand
good sons like you
NEVER DO
So why do you smile
when you thing about Earls Court?
but you cry when you think of all
the battles you’ve fought (and lost)?
it may all end tomorrow
or, it could go on forever
(in which case; I’m doomed)
it could go on foreverooo…did Kenneth Williams do a version of that?
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