What does that bingo phrase mean-part2

Learning bingo lingo is a lot like learning a new language.  With the advent of online bingo you have to now learn two languages if you are both an online bingo fan and a normal bingo hall follower.  This article is dedicated to explaining some of the more obscure bingo phrases followed by a bit devoted to a short description of the supposed meaning behind a few of the more obscure pieces of bingo lingo!

Please note that “What does that strange bingo phrase mean? Part 1” is the first part of this article.

Thirty stands for Burlington Bertie.  Strangely enough this is where bingo slang crosses over into horse racing terms! Burlington Bertie is the racing circuit odds of 100-30.  30 also stands for Speed Limit as this is the imposed vehicle speed limit in UK residential areas.

Thirty-three stands for Sherwood Forest; the Home of Robin Hood. This is possibly because 33 or all the threes rhymes with all the ‘trees’.  Hey, I didn’t think of this, I’m only explaining it.

Thirty-nine stands for Those Famous Steps.  Book worms will recognise this from the classic espionage book called “The 39 Steps”.

Forty-nine stands for PC or Police Constable. PC 49 was a famous cop show in the golden days of British radio in the forties and fifties. The show also had a few comic strip and film spin-offs, which explains all the police terms associated with this number.

Fifty stands for Bulls Eye.  Bingo likes to lend terms from other games and this one comes from darts, which for those who don’t know, is a popular game in the UK which is played by throwing small, flighted darts at a circular dart board that divided up into numerical segments. The centre of the dart board normally has a small, round dot called the “Bull’s Eye” which, if hit by a dart, is worth 50 points. Therefore 50 means Bulls Eye.

Fifty-two stands for Danny La Rue.  This is a well known British drag artist, probably chosen for the rhyming.

Fifty-seven stands for Heinz Varieties.  if you have visited the UK, you would know that Heinz 57 is a very popular type of canned baked beans over there.

Sixty-four is based on The Beatles Number based on the song “When I’m 64″ by British pop legends, The Beatles.  The lyrics are “When I get older losing my hair, many years from now…”

Sixty-five stands for Old age Pension, which is the traditional minimum age British citizens has to be before they can claim a state pension.

Seventy-two stands for Par for the course, which is based on golfing terms.

Seventy-seven stands for Sunset Strip, a Cult US TV show.

That concludes our Bingo Lingo series of articles .