Any Old Iron !

[mikey4444]

A pick-up truck has just made its regular daily trip around my estate, totting for scrap metal. But his "call" could be anything....he could be asking people to "bring out their dead" for all it makes any audible sense !

[Sqad]

LOL it's not there to make sense of mikey, the scrap iron in the pickup should give you a clue....it is TRADITIONAL.
I remember as a boy, Saturday night at about 6.30 pm a sporting paper was printed called the "Pink 'un"......cus it was printed on pink paper and an old man would saunter down the street shouting "Pinkeeeern! Pinkeeeern! We all knew what he was on about. ;-)

[mikey4444]

lol Sqad....yes, the clanking and groaning from the pick-up truck is a dead give away. Handy chaps these, as I have found out over the last year or so.

[sapelesam]

In North Shields in the 1950's the local rag and bone man did actually shout out, "Bring out your dead." Don't know if anybody avoided funeral costs this way.

[anotheoldgit]

[hereIam]

I remember the rag and bone man of my childhood shouting out what sounded like 'lang doe' on his rounds. To this day, I wonder what it meant !

[mallyh]

our chappie drives very slowly down the road ringing a bell out of the window x

[EDDIE51]

Here I am, I think he was shouting 'Rag Bone'. I remember one who used to come round my way, it took me ages to work out he was shouting ' Rag Bone'.

[hereIam]

You know EDDIE you could be right, but I will always hear it in my memory as 'lang doe' ...

[Peter Pedant]

( lang doe) // it took me ages to work out he was shouting ' Rag Bone'.//

we had the Chippy Chippy Cho! man - ( Fresh Fish ! Fresh Fish Ho! )
25 year lag time.

time for some mondegreens ?

[Togo]

"Our" rag bone man used to shout "eighteeeen carat gold fish for old rags".