Talk:List of British bingo nicknames

Legs Eleven, 11?
Normally, the call consists of either the number's specific nickname or a generic expression such as "five and three", followed by the number's standard English name. So if 11's nickname is "Legs Eleven", then the whole call is "Legs Eleven, eleven". But in my experience, the call is simply "legs eleven", so the nickname is simply "legs".

Or are there places where callers do say "Legs eleven, eleven", or have done in the past? — Smjg (talk) 14:32, 4 January 2012 (UTC)


 * For many numbers the caller gives the nickname and then either audience calls out the number or the caller gives it as an after thought as in "Doctor's orders Number Nine!" or "Two little ducks Twenty Two!" 'Legs Eleven' is different; it is a single phrase that is always said without a pause. OrewaTel (talk) 09:18, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Number 25
What happened to #25 in the list? "Half way there, 25" — Preceding unsigned comment added by OrodesIII (talk • contribs) 21:32, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Source for "grandma's getting fisty"?
Number 60, grandma's getting fisty, is unsourced and feels not credible to me. I haven't found a reliable source that pre-dates this wikipedia entry. Does anyone else have one? 84.93.177.80 (talk) 23:17, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

some more listed here
https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911090529AAlmgRL I used to play bingo about 30 or so years ago. The article should split the 2003 NEW Butlins ones from the 1950s ones and does not say enough about where they came from. Some numbers are not explained for example 86 between the sticks has some reference to football goal posts, possibly a famous player with number 86? or a match in 86? I do not know. Similarly 71 bang the drum seems totally random, but ay be to do with some payment to join the army at some time for example some versions of recruiting songs have "there are 7 shillings on the drum for he who will come to fight" so it could be a military reference. I know these are speculations, but there must be alogic behind the names. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.166.27.190 (talk) 17:15, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Snakes Alive, 55
Seems to be more widely used based on my quick Google search. Including here, not sure if that's a suitable source. The given BBC source doesn't have Musty Hive. Thanks Declangi (talk) 10:44, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Name was changed without source change here. &#124; Randomno &#124;   WP 12:33, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

dozen, score

 * A reference to there being 12 units in one dozen.
 * A reference to there being 20 units in one score.

Seems unnecessarily wordy and awkward. Does anyone use the words dozen or (in the numeric sense) score without knowing what numbers they mean?

How real are these?
There are a few traditional calls that have been around forever. Then there are calls that could be called funny once. As an example 66 has always been clickerty-click and 22 is two little duck. Then some wag said, "Clickerty-duck" for 62. Some numbers had no nickname so, for example, the caller would shout, "Seven and two - seventy two." But that won't do for a comprehensive list sand some callers would regard that as giving up. So we have "Danny la Rue", "Vindaloo", "Peggy Sue" and many others. I even heard, "Trixie Wu" in the 1980s. (Reference to James Herriot) The point I'm trying to make is that most of the calls were ephemeral and rapidly went out of date. Citations in contemporary newspapers are not useful for determining whether a call lasted for more than a year or whether it was simply a funny once. I am tempted to prune all the nicknames that cannot be proven to have lasted. OrewaTel (talk) 03:23, 4 September 2023 (UTC)