Magnet or Maggots?

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AlienWoodward said:
What a Question ...
Out of interest has anyone ever drank a gallon of Magnet ?
I managed it three fridays on the trot in the late 80s and that was enough for me.
Saturday mornings sat on the loo with my head in the sink.
Anyone else been there:D
Mind you the best pint ever was Wards,my god that curled the nostrils the next day :thumbup:
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On numerous occasions!!!!! Nectar
 
Maggots for me, always known it as that since I worked out the words as a nipper standing on the kop on the 80s.

Doesn't make much sense but:
a) I don't care
b) you don't buy either maggots or magnet by the gallon, but the pint
c) It fits in with the snuff in that it's a working class type thing a Sheffield bloke would do
d) I don't think the sense filling has to do with imbibing the maggots, more like the fishing you do with 'em
e) I can't recall seeing magnet on tap for a long time
;)

Its definitely "Fill".
And I agree about the Wards comments, if you weren't regular before a night on the Wards, you certainly were after :)
 
sheffielder said:
Considering it's a night out in Sheffield with a greasy chip button and pinch of snuff, how can anyone think it's Maggots. When you go out on a night out a saying is that you're going out for a gallon of beer. This strange phenomenon has happened more and more since Crewe :)
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That'd be a fair argument if the first bit was "like a night out in Sheffield" and everything that followed were things you do on a night out in Sheffield, but it isn't. It's just a list of things that fill up your senses.

You fill up my senses like
i) a gallon of magnet/maggotts
ii) a packet of woodbines
iii) a good pinch of snuff
iv) a night out in Sheffield
v) a greasy chip butty
vi) Sheffield United


I wonder if our grandkids will still be debating this sat on their hoverboards on street corners.
 
TonyAgana said:
That'd be a fair argument if the first bit was "like a night out in Sheffield" and everything that followed were things you do on a night out in Sheffield, but it isn't. It's just a list of things that fill up your senses.

You fill up my senses like
i) a gallon of magnet/maggotts
ii) a packet of woodbines
iii) a good pinch of snuff
iv) a night out in Sheffield
v) a greasy chip butty
vi) Sheffield United


I wonder if our grandkids will still be debating this sat on their hoverboards on street corners.
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Grandkids? I was promised hoverboards by 2015 29 years ago and by god if I don't have them I will be round to Robert Zemeckis' house to demand why...
 
SellyOakBlade said:
Grandkids? I was promised hoverboards by 2015 29 years ago and by god if I don't have them I will be round to Robert Zemeckis' house to demand why...
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Shit. I guess I've just at this very moment resigned myself to the disappointment that they won't happen in my lifetime. Well THAT'S upsetting. :(
 
sheffielder said:
Considering it's a night out in Sheffield with a greasy chip button and pinch of snuff, how can anyone think it's Maggots. When you go out on a night out a saying is that you're going out for a gallon of beer. This strange phenomenon has happened more and more since Crewe :)
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Or are you taking those in isolation. So it could be like a night out in Sheffield, but separately like a greasy chip butty, they aren't exclusively linked are they? Or are there now rules about these songs I don't know about?
 
I sing both, often at the same time depending on my magnet/maggot ratio pre-match...
 
Bladesway said:
Or are you taking those in isolation. So it could be like a night out in Sheffield, but separately like a greasy chip butty, they aren't exclusively linked are they? Or are there now rules about these songs I don't know about?
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I just took it they were all things you do while a night out in Sheffield..

Why is what I am saying a rule? Just a fucking opinion :)
 
sheffielder said:
I just took it they were all things you do while a night out in Sheffield..

Why is what I am saying a rule? Just a fucking opinion :)
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I gave up with the snuff because I was approached in Cairo Jaxx and told it wasn't cool any more.
 

ironbar said:
Sung to the tune Food Glorious Food from Oliver

Ale wonderfull ale WARDS,STONESES and TETLEYS day after day im tekin back emptys gooin home at eleven tuneet wide eyed and dreemy goin home at eleven tuneet legless and steamy ALE WONDERFULL ALE . and so on and so
for about eleven more verses.
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I remember these words:

When I go to t' pub tonight my hands start to quiver
When I sit ont toilet, it's like a river
 
Casper said:
Its definitely magnet. God know where the term 'maggots' came from. I remember when the ditty was in it embryonic stage. We played Lincoln away twice in a week or so - 82/83?? I remember a small group of lads just by me were singing the tune but the words were.... "like a night out in Woodhouse...."
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Thank fuck for that. I thought I was the only one. Heard exactly the same on the bus back from Rotherham in 84 after Bob Atkins' late winner.
 
TonyAgana said:
That'd be a fair argument if the first bit was "like a night out in Sheffield" and everything that followed were things you do on a night out in Sheffield, but it isn't. It's just a list of things that fill up your senses.

You fill up my senses like
i) a gallon of magnet/maggotts
ii) a packet of woodbines
iii) a good pinch of snuff
iv) a night out in Sheffield
v) a greasy chip butty
vi) Sheffield United


I wonder if our grandkids will still be debating this sat on their hoverboards on street corners.
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My take on it is that it is a list of the simple pleasures in life, a comment that some things don't have to be expensive or flash to give enjoyment.

Therefore, it could be either but I think it was Magnet first and that's what I've always sung.
 
BushBlade said:
My take on it is that it is a list of the simple pleasures in life, a comment that some things don't have to be expensive or flash to give enjoyment.

Therefore, it could be either but I think it was Magnet first and that's what I've always sung.
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As long as its not Magners, orrible stuff. years ago we'd take a gallon of bronze maggots fishing (if we could afford them). so I sing maggots but magnet has it officilly. though John Denver dont sing neither.
 
Maggotts doesn't make any sense at all. All of the others are about things you eat, drink, sniff. Also, you would have a gallon of Magnet (over a couple of hours), but you wouldn't buy a gallon of maggots - two or three pints at most. The problem is that most of the young folk who go to the Lane have no idea what Magnet is and so think its maggots.
 
We have always sang the correct 'Gallon of Magots' so come on get it right!

+ where have all the shorham chants gone? Getting fed up with the same 4 songs over and over again!
 
wardlowwanderer said:
Maggotts doesn't make any sense at all. All of the others are about things you eat, drink, sniff. Also, you would have a gallon of Magnet (over a couple of hours), but you wouldn't buy a gallon of maggots - two or three pints at most. The problem is that most of the young folk who go to the Lane have no idea what Magnet is and so think its maggots.
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Maggots makes total sense - is Sheffield not still the capital of the angling world?

bream_fishing_baits.jpg
 
When I first heard it - (boxing day match away at Bradford I think) it was defo maggots - - but later on, after the cliub had adopted it and it started appearing on stuff in the club shop it seemed to become Magnet.
 
wardlowwanderer said:
BOS - you have shot yourself in the foot with your very helpful photo - that's about a pint of maggots. It's nowehere near a gallon. Case proven.
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I don't think so. You don't buy Magnet in gallons and you don't buy maggots in gallons - the photo was purely for illustrative purposes :p

You, however, might drink Magnet in gallons! ;)
 
BornOnShoreham said:
I don't think so. You don't buy Magnet in gallons and you don't buy maggots in gallons - the photo was purely for illustrative purposes :p

You, however, might drink Magnet in gallons! ;)
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In the day It was always maggots and furthermore the maggot farm always sold them by the gallon!
 

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