Talk:Les Dawson
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I have tried to edit the page about Les dawson as there are some inaccuracies and I wanted to add details. I did add them but when I went back to the original page the edits had not changed and all my extra information had disappeared. Can you tell what I did wrong? J2TMR@aol.com Thank you in anticipation
You mean the addition of "2-2-1933 to 10-6-1993" ? It's there. Perhaps it's a caching problem at your end - try reloading the page.
Anyway, that info should be integrated into the article instead of floating at the top. I'll do that, but first tell me what dating format you're using.
Is it 10th June 1993 or 6th October 1993?
Evercat 22:27 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
No I imagine you don't mean that, sice I see that edit happened months ago. :-) Did you preview the page but forget to save it, maybe? Evercat 22:29 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Date of Birth
The IMDb has the year of Dawson's death as 1931, not '33 or '34. Would it be correct to use that?
TonyW 00:16, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
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- Date and place of birth is confirmed in the DNB as 2 February 1931 in Thornton Street, Collyhurst. His first wife was Margaret Rose Plant and they married 25 June 1960, she died in 1987 not 1986. His second wife was Tracy Roper and they married in 1989. He died at St Joseph's Hospital, Manchester. Those are all from the DNB which has been known to be wrong occasionally! I will leave someone to merge the details into the main text. --jmb 23:46, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ethnicity
Old Les wasn't a Jew by any chance was he?
-Dr Haggis - Talk 01:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Not so far as I know. Maybe that's why he was so terrified by the ghost of Sid James? 130.225.25.169 (talk) 12:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
me-moing. In the listing on Les Dawson its said that the characters Cissy and Ada - played by Les and Roy Barraclough - would 'whisper' to avoid using certain words. What is far more likely is that they were me-moing. A silent form of speech using exageratted mouth movements so that the other person could lip-read at a distance. This is a form of communication that was commonplace in parts of the North West of England in towns such as Bolton, Bury and Rochdale where many women of that age would have worked in cotton and paper mills. The noise of the industrial process in these mills made normal conversation impossible. Me-moing would often be accompanied by visual 'mimes' - drinking, smoking, walking etc.
Peter Kay has made much of me-moing in his act ie. 'fancy a brew'
