Re: 150 years of the Shipping Forecast
One of my great uncles would use "Heligoland! Dogger!! and Forties!!!" as a mild curse when things were going not-quite-right. it always struck me as something that Captain Haddock in the Tintin stories would have said.
[he had a range of other rather more viscerally fruity and emphatic curses which I guess he acquired from having lived through having his destroyer torpedoed out from under him in the later stages of WWII]
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