Punch the phraseology into google and you'll score hundreds of hits!
At one time, Peter Simple writing in the [London] Daily Telegraph or David
Frost et al in the BBC satire show "That Was The Week That Was" in the 1960s
were both sometimes considered a bit loopy.
This dropsy thing is just way off the scale in comparison!
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 06 October, 2006 01:50 PM
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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