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Who Remembers Joey Deacon From Blue Peter?
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On the Left Wing
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When I used to teach at a secondary school in Barnsley in the early 1980s, the kids would call anyone with a learning difficulty a "Joey Deacon" ..... cruel, but that's the way kids are!
Had a classmate called Jon Deacon who was called "Joey" by everyone* throughout his school years.
* Except his parents - possibly
* Except his parents - possibly
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Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
On the Left Wing said:
That was a popular put-down when I was in first and middle school, although it always started with a "Nur!!!". Blue Peter made a special request for kids not use Joey's name like that.
Wasn't he an Arsenal fan?
Northstander
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- Oct 13, 2003
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we also used that name as a put down....
brill!!!!
brill!!!!
kalinski
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and us!!!
Now we have the politcally correct special education needs (SEN) and so now the kids shout "special needs" in the same way as we all shouted "Joey"
Now we have the politcally correct special education needs (SEN) and so now the kids shout "special needs" in the same way as we all shouted "Joey"
Northstander
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- Oct 13, 2003
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Quality! The good ole days....
Gazwag
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Wern't we evil as kids, I remember well when somebody did something stupid as school a cry of "Joey" went out while pushing the lower lip out with your tongue
Smithers-Jones
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Yup, Joey Deacon... king of the window-lickers! I think just about every schoolkid in the late 70's used "Duh! Wot a Joey!" as a form of insult
chips and gravy
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At my school kids were either Joeys or Lomas kids (after the name of the centre for what we always referred to as the dippy kids). Most of us secretly envied them though as all they seemed to do was drive around the school field in go karts that they constructed in mechanics classes
as he's my namesake I used to get called deacon from time to time . . . .ran one kid off his bike on the way home once into the middle of the road and there where cars coming the other way, last time he called me that
everyone used to get called a deacon around the early 80's
everyone used to get called a deacon around the early 80's