Despite years of watching Python, Brit-coms, mysteries, and Attenborough
documentaries, translating such anomalies as lorry/truck, lift/elevator, car
park/parking lot, crisp/chip, chip/fry, cracker/cookie, cake/god knows what,
and on and on, I don't feel all that bad about not understanding the meaning of
the sentence in question. However, I do claim that I did realize that the
correct syntax had the distinct possibility of meaning just what William
claimed. He just had it all garbled up and discomboobulated.
Walt, who speaks fluent Southern and Appalachian American
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Ah well, that's entirely different, and is not nonsense (sorry to disappoint
> you, Walt). Yes, I can recognise that as having the meaning ascribed
> earlier, and it very succinctly encapsulates the advice I gave in my post
> just a minute ago. But as you will have seen, I wouldn't have phrased it
> that way :-) It's for others to judge which phraseology is preferred.
>
> Partridge dates "rozzer" to c 1870. It's a word I have never used, but have
> known since I was a boy (at an undisclosed date between 1870 and the
> present).
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: 06 October 2006 17:51
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: is a long post okay?; snide crackers
>
> Well, the actual phrase is "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsey in
> snide." I haven't a clue what it means. I do like the way it sounds. Of
> course, I've been a fan of nonsense my whole silly life. :-)
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Martyn Smoothy" <mds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Whatever "Dropsy the crackers with snide" may mean it's no sort of
> > "British Slang" that I've ever heard - any of the other Limeys on the
> > list recognize it?
> >
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