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It was stated in the article that Willams made many of the words up. This is not true as it is well known that he took many terms from the 50s gay secret language and brought them into the mainstream. He would later say that he found it highly amusing to find the bitterest of anti gay men using terms that were part of a gay language. The most famous of these gay words is NAFF which meant not available for fucking. There are literally dozens of other words and phrases which have enetered every day language due to Williams. The language itself died out when homosexuality was legalised in the 60s. I believe the language was called palatay or something similar. —Preceding
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11:03, 25 November 2007 (UTC)reply
No question that polari was slyly used on the Round the Horne show in the Julian and Sandy bits -- but the made-up words in the "Syd Rumpo" vocab are, I believe, all his own.
Clevelander96 (
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16:20, 17 June 2009 (UTC)reply
Williams issued an LP at the time, which I actually bought. Clearly some copies still exist, as a number of his songs are now to be found on YouTube for anyone interested in listening. --
MichaelGG (
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08:56, 31 July 2010 (UTC)reply
In the wake of having seen this whole article deleted and turned into a redirect, I'd like to see discussion here as to how it could be improved. If any user feels that the deletion was appropriate, he or she should nominate it for
deletion and it should undergo the proper discussion there.
Clevelander96 (
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23:01, 6 August 2010 (UTC)reply
Having just recently happened upon this piece, I have undertaken a major restructuring of the article, by removing opinionated and unsourced text and, more importantly, adding in-line references for most of the material. It is far from perfect, and could benefit from some more
reliable sources. Anyone who can assist, please do so. Thanks,