Help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Dr Samuel Johnson - composer of the first major dictionary of the English Language

to walk in a odd way across ice

Jon Harvey, Buckingham

A riotous drinking game leaving the participants incapable of speach

Bob Harrison, Lichfield

The jaunty gait of one who has made lots of "blobber" from a "stingo"

C Simon, Lichfield

A thin gruel (quite unpopular in the late 18th Century) made with hard cheese, swede, barley and pond water.

Chris Stanley, Lichfield

Scheming somebody as a skamble.

Raman Hamad, Birmingham

A Kung-Fu man getting robbed whilst fighting

Keli Le, Birmingham

An early version of a child's climbing frame

D. Harper, Stonnall

Invented in the Agragrian Revolution when agricultural modernisation meant less peasants were required to work the land. Peasants lined up in a formation similar to that of skittles and the landowners threw a large ball made out of a stuffed pig’s bladder to try and knock them over. Often resulted in the loss of life which was fine from the landowner’s point of view. Lost popularity in the Industrial Revolution when the peasants found other ways to kill themselves such as throwing themselves onto a loom, trapping themselves in mines, contracting cholera, TB etc.

Hazel Ward, Birmingham