This is a reference to an unfortunate result of Buttering a Muffin Tin, in which the sufferer has a strange, bow-legged gait, which may persist for 10-14 days, until fully healed. Personally, I have always wondered what licking the icing meant, as when I heard it, we were nowhere near a kitchen and no confectionary was being prepared.

Was it just me, or did face pyjamas used to mean "things that sound like a euphemism but have no obvious connotation"? When presented with something like 'licking the icing', I'm afraid I have all to literal a picture in mind... involving whipped cream and... fades into mental haze

Ah ha! the Campaign for real Face Pyjamas continues!

[snorgle] I think you misheard licking the icing. The term is linking the ricepudding and refers to the fundamental Christian practice of mixing savoury and sweet dishes in a blender (originally operated by donkey). This is in order to create a "bland dish worthy of the lord" (Deliah Ch2 vv7). This explains a lot as most schools, hospitals and meals on wheels services are run by Seventh Day Adventists.

But what is a folly bucket?

[PaulWay] You are almost correct. Face Pyjamas was a kind of euphemism game, as originally conceived, and as I tried to make clear in my initial move, above. But some seem to have found the concept impossible to comprehend, and it's now a sort of MC Dictionary.

Folly Bucket - the polite name for a device originally invented in Geneva, Switzerland, as a sort of portable vomitarium cum chamber pot for young bloods intent on getting helplessly drunk without sullying the pristine streets. The term is now used to describe the sort of person who ought to carry one.

Velvet Scabbard

I think I overheard someone explaining that one at work today; it's the term for some piece of 'assistance' rendered by management to employees that is supposed to save time and money but is actually practically useless. E.g. "I wanted a sword and he gave me a velvet scabbard." The velvet bit refers, I think, to the fact that management find these things quite attractive in a "buzzwords and warm glows" way.

I've got one for you: Pudding elbow

Embarrassment caused by over-reaching oneself. Derived from the fate of those who, in reaching for the cream, dangle their sleeves in the Charlotte Russe.

Cornish Date?

This is a thing rather like a haggis, but instead of wholesome meat and vegetables it's filled with dried fruit. It was originally made for tin miners to take to work as a kind of packed lunch, the rationale being that it was so revolting it would make working in a tin mine seem not so bad after all.

An acquaintance asked if I want to try salty surfing. Do I need a licence?