Face in the hole
You stick your head through and get a photo taken, if there’s one thing that’s everywhere at the seaside it the sea. But also these. But they don’t have a proper name. A few questions on the internet and a bit of googling and we got a few options: Aunt Sally board, face in the hole board, character board, peep through board, cut-outs (which can’t work), and even the French word ‘tintamarresque’.
The French have a word for it, and we don’t: it’s an insult to our national character.
So, what should we do? Settle on one, pinch the French?
Competing names for things you stick your head through and take a photo, we need to agree and stick to one. Vote now
— Pier Review (@PierReview) January 15, 2016
If Pier Review can do one thing, it should do this service to the English language.
Jon was voted the ‘14th Most Influential Person in the West Midlands’ in 2008. Subsequently he has not been placed. He’s been a football referee, venetian blind maker, cellar man, and a losing Labour council candidate: “No, no chance. A complete no-hoper” said a spoilt ballot. Jon wrote and directed the first ever piece of drama performed on Twitter when he persuaded a cast including MPs and journalists to give over their timelines to perform Twitpanto. But all that is behind him.