Like the word "tart", "
judie" is, of course, used colloquially to mean girlfriend or woman.
"In the end it was the effort, research, hard work and inspiration which went into Punch and
Judies idea that won the day."
For, with their melody and poetry, they carry us far away from the soulless hum of computers to the dawn of music, through all the human passions, stopping along the way to consider wars and those who spill the blood of the innocent - chastity belts and wicked kings, mining disasters, storms on the high seas, cabin boys and crazy captains, cotton fields and their lamentations, John Barleycorn, new factories and old fields, slimy politicians and business men, foaming jokes, noble knights and fair maidens, Liverpool
judies, huddled refugees, and great trains rolling across the prairies to promised lands.
Chief whipperinner Pat Moran said: "It's the city's best daytime club, with the finest Liverpool
Judies in attendance - some even have their own teeth."
An auction will include an illustrated official programme of Gerry Marsden's Freedom of the City presentation dedicated to "the Liverpool
judies"!
The idea was to give them a haven safe from willing '
Judies' who delighted in such names as Harriet Lane, Jumping Jenny and The Battleship.
And this week, thanks go to the boys from Boss magazine who put me in their list entitled 'Top 7 Liverpool
Judies'.
LAST Wednesday, around 2pm, after the Freedom of Liverpool scrolls dedicated to the Merchant Navy were ceremonially placed in St Nicholas's parish church, sundry old salts and their
judies needed a tot of Nelson's Blood.
It was built with subscriptions from shipowners and merchants to provide clean and cheap accommodation and keep sailors away from "
Judies" and grog shops.
Soon the conversation is dripping with wet nellies, shawlies, de parish, lads, tarts and
judies, auld fellers and auld gerls, the dockers' umbreller, left-footers, tallymen, proddy-dogs, conny-onny, ollies, and gerls with faces like ruptured custard.
``All the
Judies and the blokes at Lipa say `Happy Birthday.