interesting fact heard on Pointless quiz on BBC1 the other day ...
the first known use of the cockney-rhyming slang for Curry - Ruby Murray - was ...
on an episode of Only Fools & Horses in 1983
would have thought it was older than that  |
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"The term was around long before Fools and Horses....
that is what believed but apparently OF&H was first 'recorded' use of the phrase"
As everyday Londoners conversations aren't recorded then that may well be the case....but any Londoner would laugh at the claim that John Sullivan made the term up....because it precedes his writing of the F&H scripts by a long time |
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"The term was around long before Fools and Horses....
that is what believed but apparently OF&H was first 'recorded' use of the phrase
As everyday Londoners conversations aren't recorded then that may well be the case....but any Londoner would laugh at the claim that John Sullivan made the term up....because it precedes his writing of the F&H scripts by a long time"
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over a year ago
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"The term was around long before Fools and Horses....
that is what believed but apparently OF&H was first 'recorded' use of the phrase
As everyday Londoners conversations aren't recorded then that may well be the case....but any Londoner would laugh at the claim that John Sullivan made the term up....because it precedes his writing of the F&H scripts by a long time"
for a brief while jimmy saville meant traville, cos of the old clunk click and age of the train ads, but it didnt catch on Jimmy means going for a waz |
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