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Bingo Lingo has been around for over 100 years and varies depending on location. Surprisingly, it is not used so widely these days and is disappearing fast.

There are many variations for the numbers, some are rhyming slang and some are a little more logical. Take 8 for example, it can be called "Garden Gate" or "one fat lady" because of it's shape. There are even biblical bingo calls such as 'The Lord is my Shepherd" - 23. The majority of names tend to rhyme, like 'Dirty Gurtie" 30 or "Man Alive" 5. I find the nick names very entertaining and urge all of the Bingo callers out there to keep the tradition going! It makes it more fun and some numbers will allways get a laugh or two!

Here is a list of the most popular calls:

1. Kelly's eye / At the beginning / Nelson's column
2. One little duck / Me and you
3. You and me / Cup of tea / One Little Flea
4. Knock at the door / B4 (and after)
5. Man alive
6. Tom's tricks / Tom Nix / Chopsticks
7. Lucky seven / God's in heaven
8. One Fat Lady / Golden gate
9. Doctor's orders
10. Tony's Den
11. Legs eleven
12. One dozen, One and two - a dozen, Monkey's cousin (rhymes with "a dozen")
13. Unlucky for some, Devil's number, Bakers dozen
14. Valentines day
15. Rugby team, Young and keen
16. Sweet sixteen / She's lovely / Never been kissed
17. Often been kissed / The age to catch 'em / Dancing Queen
18. Key of the door / Coming of age
19. Goodbye teens
20. Getting plenty / Blind 20
21. Key of the door
22. Two little ducks / All the twos
23. Thee and me / The Lord is my Shepherd
24. Two dozen
25. Duck and dive
26. Bed and breakfast / Half a crown / Pick and mix
27. Little duck with a crutch / Gateway to heaven
28. In a state / Over weight
29. You're doing fine
30. Burlington Bertie / Dirty Gertie / Speed limit / Flirty thirty / Blind 30
31. Get up and run
32. Buckle my Shoe
33. Dirty knees / All the threes / All the feathers / Two little fleas / Sherwood Forest
34. Ask for more
35. Jump and jive
36. Three dozen
37. A flea in heaven
38. Christmas cake
39. Those famous steps
40. Naughty Forty
41. Time for fun
42. That famous street in Manhattan / Whinny the Pooh
43. Down on your knees
44. Droopy drawers / All the fours
45. Halfway house / Halfway there
46. Up to tricks
47. Four and seven
48. Four dozen
49. PC (Police Constable) / Copper / Nick nick
50. Bulls eye / Blind 50 / Half a century
51. Tweak of the thumb
52. Weeks in a year / Danny La Rue
53. Stuck in the tree
54. Clean the floor
55. Snakes alive / All the fives
56. Was she worth it?
57. Heinz varieties
58. Make them wait / Choo choo Thomas
59. Brighton line
60. Three score / Blind 60 / Five dozen
61. Bakers bun
62. Tickety boo / Turn on the screw
63. Tickle me
64. Red raw / The Beatles number
65. Old age pension
66. Clickety click / All the sixes
67. Made in heaven / Argumentative number
68. Saving grace
69. The same both ways / your place or mine / Either way up / Meal for two
70. Three score and ten / Blind 70
71. Bang on the drum
72. A crutch and a duck / Six dozen / Par for the course
73. Crutch and a flea / Queen B
74. Candy store
75. Strive and strive
76. Trombones
77. Sunset strip / All the sevens / Two little crutches
78. Heavens gate
79. One more time
80. Gandhi's breakfast / Blind 80 / Eight and blank
81. Fat lady and a little wee / Stop and run
82. Fat lady with a duck / Straight on through
83. Fat lady with a flea / Time for tea / Ethel's Ear
84. Seven dozen
85. Staying alive
86. Between the sticks
87. Fat lady with a crutch / Torquay in Devon
88. Two fat ladies / All the eights / Wobbly wobbly
89. Nearly there / All but one
90. Top of the shop / Top of the house / Blind 90 / End of the line

I have been playing bingo on the Foxy site lately. I was enticed by the £10 free play as most people would be. I promised myself that I wouldn't deposit any money, but when I won twice, the only way to withdraw my £40 winnings was to deposit, so I did. Since then I haven't looked back. I have won four more times and I am loving it!

The chat rooms are good fun. Everyone is really helpful. I tried the Coral bingo (Gala) last week and because it's so much bigger, it just didn't have the same nice feel that Foxy did, but I think that it's because there are so many more players than Foxy. There were helpful people there also. I had to ask quite a few annoying questions as I didn't find the layout particularly user friendly.

I don't have much intention of using any other bingo rooms right now.

I am trying to keep myself on a weekly budget so that I don't spend too much. I am fairly new to the online bingo rooms and I can already see how addictive it can become. I have managed to resist temptation so far, but for how long? The good thing about bingo is, that you don't go through the money you deposit as quickly as you might on an online casino. The bets on Foxy start at 5p and on Coral (Gala) there are 'buy one get one free' rounds. So it's all pretty affordable. Foxy also award funded players with loyalty points which can then be turned into money if you run out. Something I had to resort to yesterday.

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