Online bingo room rewrites the bingo caller’s code.

Costa Bingo Facebook fans have been getting creative and have put together brand new set of bingo lingo numbers in direct response to last week’s story of ‘bingo caller political correctness gone mad’.

The original story related to the former Mayor of Sudbury John Sayers who stated that bingo calls like ‘two fat ladies’ and ‘legs eleven’ had no place in modern bingo because they could cause offence.

Mr Sayers told the BBC: "The concern was that if there might be two large ladies in the audience when I said 'two fat ladies 88' or someone might think I was looking at their legs when I said 'legs 11'. I was advised that someone might take offence and we could end up being taken to court."

More than 4,000 bingo players were asked if – indeed - they would be offended and only 40 said they would. Online bingo room Costa Bingo responded by asking its players to come up with some new rhyming slang.

“Bingo is all about having a bit of fun,” said Costa Bingo room manager Debbie Gent. “We asked our players to come up with some new numbers and the response has been overwhelming. We’ve had a new rhyme for every one of the ninety numbers.

“Some are funny, some are a little rude, and quite a few are just plain weird,” she said.

So what did Costa Bingo’s Facebook fans come up with? Here is a selection from the new 90!

Doggy chew: number 2, It ain’t a fix: number 6, the caller’s a swine: number nine, ASBO teen: 13, I need to pee: 33, you and me: 43, dream come true: 22, no more tricks 56, your place or mine: 69, sit up and wait: 58, never too late: 78, I want a poo: 72, God almighty here comes 90, smack my bum: 61, don’t be naughty number 40, make it mine: 49, any win will do: 42, dig and delve number 12.