I remember it as an onomatopoeia in the Freak Brothers comics- one episode when they went down to Mexico, where it was a sentinel warning of explosive Montezuma’s revengeWhen I was young 'poot' became family slang for a fart. It derived from Steve Bell's 'If' cartoons in the Grauniad which, whenever Sellafield was depicted, showed it with puffs of emissions from various cracks and orifices, alongside the legend 'poot!'
For those sufficiently ancient to remember Lonnie Donegan:Edwin Poots, including his name is like an invention of the Monty python team, in a sketch trying to illustrate the madness of it all.
She's in better tune than Van the Man!
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/health...n-the-europa-hotel-has-emerged-online-3269473
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57443478
DUP MP Ian Paisley joined Sir Van Morrison in chanting that Northern Ireland's Health Minister Robin Swann "is very dangerous" at a cancelled concert in Belfast.
It came after four gigs by Sir Van at the Europa Hotel were cancelled at the last moment on Thursday.
[...]
Author Kevin Toolis, who was at the dinner, described the events as "quite strange".
"I think the audience were a bit nervous, people didn't chant," he said.
Mr Toolis said that while Mr Swann may be many things, "dangerous is not a word most people would associate with him".
In video of the event, seen by BBC News NI, Sir Van can be seen inviting North Antrim MP Ian Paisley onto the stage, who then joined him in the chant: "Robin Swann is very dangerous."
“Robert Swann is very dangerous”- maybe it was a conceptual art piece like Gilbert & George’s “Gordon’s Makes Us Drunk”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-57443478
DUP MP Ian Paisley joined Sir Van Morrison in chanting that Northern Ireland's Health Minister Robin Swann "is very dangerous" at a cancelled concert in Belfast.
It came after four gigs by Sir Van at the Europa Hotel were cancelled at the last moment on Thursday.
[...]
Author Kevin Toolis, who was at the dinner, described the events as "quite strange".
"I think the audience were a bit nervous, people didn't chant," he said.
Mr Toolis said that while Mr Swann may be many things, "dangerous is not a word most people would associate with him".
In video of the event, seen by BBC News NI, Sir Van can be seen inviting North Antrim MP Ian Paisley onto the stage, who then joined him in the chant: "Robin Swann is very dangerous."
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Belfast to be born?
.sjb
Tony, LOL is the Northern Irish abbreviation for "Loyal Orange Lodge" - see, for example, this typical banner:LOLtastic. I hate to think what is waiting in the wings.
LOL is the Northern Irish abbreviation for "Loyal Orange Lodge"
Poots is oot!