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BINGO fans have launched a campaign to protect traditional number calls after a hall in the UK was banned from saying "two fat ladies".
The fun phrase has been used for decades to describe 88 - because the figures resemble a pair of large women.
But ex-mayor John Sayers, 75, was ordered by Sudbury Council, Suffolk, to drop it from his weekly town hall sessions because it might upset overweight players - despite getting no complaints, The Sun reports.
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Rob Hutchinson, of onlinebingoclub.co.uk, fears politically correct meddlers and bureaucrats will target other number phrases.
He has started a petition to preserve them and has already collected 3000 signatures.
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'The call of 'two fat ladies' in bingo is part of our heritage. What's the alternative - 'two generously proportioned people of either gender'?' Mr Hutchinson said.
Chrissie Maher, founder of the Plain English Campaign, said: 'It shouldn't be necessary to mess about with parts of our heritage like bingo slang.'
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2785503/Fury-as-bingo-calls-go-PC.html?OTC-RSS&ATTR=News#ixzz0awjPe8RS
Originally published as'Two fat ladies' banned from bingo hall