Missing a sitter?

[slapnuts]

why is it called a sitter?

[johngibo YPC]

why is it called a sitter?

 

'i could have scored that sitting down'

[Murphman]

It's derived from 'sitting duck' which is of course easier to shoot than one in flight.

[Stevie H]

because the chance is 'sitting up and begging', as a dog.

 

ooh it's like call my bluff this isn't it.

[pipnasty]

It was originally called 'missing a s***ter' and alluded to a striker being 'constipated' in front of goal. It was changed by the PC Brigade to 'sitter'.

[matty]

Because back when players married younger and had children in their 20s, they often needed babysitters to look after their sprogs when they went to the local Berni Inn for a meal with their spouses. The phrase "my babysitter could have scored that" became common. This eventually shortened to 'sitter'.

 

Of course, anyone babysitting for a professional footballer in this day and age is likely to be roasted for their trouble.

[Ostrich Man]

It was originally called 'missing a s***ter'

 

impossible if youre Macca.

[Woodsyla]

It actually derives from the 1970's sitcom Rising Damp and came from the cast and crew 5 a side games they had every week. The lead actor was appalling in front of goal and un-missable chance was known as a Leonard Rossiter i.e even Leonard would have scored it. Richard Beckinsale mentioned this once on Parkinson interview and soon people all over the country were missing Leonard Rossiters. Over time this has been shortened to a 'siter and like many other phrases the original usage has been misinterpreted into another word (e.g. On tenterhooks becoming on tenderhooks) and has become sitter however the correct spelling should be 'siter.

 

I've just come over all Frank Muir

[dorgie]

I've just come over all Frank Muir

 

Necrophiliac

[John am Rhein]

Bluff

[Spike]

Necrophiliac

 

[ManxRed]

Its actually from the Isle of Man, where the annual Dog Sh*gg*ng Tournament is held every June. Contestants in this most testing of competitions prove their artistic bestiality flair by copulating with smaller and smaller breeds, last year's winner successfully managing to 'do it' with a pug.

 

Newcomers are often mocked for their inability to score, even with larger breeds, to the extent where the phrase 'look, he even missed the setter' has become commonplace to denote someone who can't even penetrate with a bigger dog.

 

This in turn has been corrupted to 'missing a sitter' as it has been handed down through generations.

[matty]

It actually comes from the rennaissance practice of artists copulating with their models, or 'sitters', as they are known. After a heavy day's painting, the artist would usually take the sitter out, get her pissed, and spatter her face with egg tempera.

 

However, some of the uglier painters, Ghirlandaio, Dossi, and Fra Angelico, for example, would invariably fail to get the model back to his palazzo, and after supping the free booze, they'd go off with the better looking ones, like Raphael or Mantegna.

 

The following day, the slappers would usually fail to turn up as they slept off their nights of arty shagging, and the ugly artist would be 'missing a sitter'.

Edited January 2, 2008 by matty

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

it actually comes from the Indian game of kabaddi.

 

Particularly poor 'raiders' would be insulted with the phrase "he couldn't hit a holy cow's a*** with a sitar"

 

hence "missing [with] a sitar" became, via the British Army, "missing a sitter"

[StevieC]

It actually comes from the rennaissance practice of artists copulating with their models, or 'sitters', as they are known. After a heavy day's painting, the artist would usually take the sitter out, get her pissed, and spatter her face with egg tempera.

 

However, some of the uglier painters, Ghirlandaio, Dossi, and Fra Angelico, for example, would invariably fail to get the model back to his palazzo, and after supping the free booze, they'd go off with the better looking ones, like Raphael or Mantegna.

 

The following day, the slappers would usually fail to turn up as they slept off their nights of arty shagging, and the ugly artist would be 'missing a sitter'.

 

 

:applause:

[ManxRed]

 

Aha! So there, as it were, in a nutshell, it would seem.

 

Its from the failures of an ugly painter, an indian sport, a Manx bestiality tournament, A football game involving the stars of Rising Damp, or a roasted childminder.

 

'Missing A Sitter'

 

Frank?

[Murphman]

Necrophiliac

 

 

Brilliant.

[Tosh]

But what is a tenterhook?

No googling (etc)

Edited January 2, 2008 by Tosh

[R A Softlad]

Saw the title and the poster and assumed it was about babysitters...

[slapnuts]

But what is a tenterhook?

No googling (etc)

 

a hook on a tent obvously!

[Woodsyla]

But what is a tenterhook?

No googling (etc)

without googling I believe it's something to do with abbatoirs, I think meat was hung on it hence on tenterhooks wasn't a great place to be. I think.

 

 

or not (after googling)

 

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ont1.htm

 

far less interesting than my abbatoir related explanation ...

Edited January 2, 2008 by Woodsyla

[ManxRed]

Prostitutes in the 19th Century were often forced, through the anger of local residents and the efforts of the police, to move away from built up residential areas and had to ply their trade elsewhere. This period of time coincided with the establishment of Britain's first camp sites, and as these were not as heavily policed as town centres they decided to move to these sites to offer sex to the campers.

 

They became so popular with the gentlemen campers that there was often a queue of frustrated and anxious men waiting nervously for their selected woman to pay a visit. They were said to be anxiously "waiting on their Tent Hookers".

 

The phrase has become slightly corrupted down the years.

 

FACT.