Funnily enough I happen to know a Pete Tong. Great guy too.
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I felt sorry for poor old Emma Freud when she became famous her name was used.
"Suffering from a case of Emma's"
Emma Freud = haemorrod
'er indoors...........thank-you Minder
SWMBO...............thank-you Rumpole
to be honest SWMBO I never heard until I came here
heres another one gander = to have a look
Yep, I was going to suggest Merchant Banker too but someone got there before me.
Have we mentioned money? Pony, Monkey, etc...
The there's always going out for a Ruby... (Ruby Murray = Curry)
But you'd better get them on the old Dog & Bone to book a table. (Dog & Bone = Phone)
Apples & Pairs... Stairs.
Plates of Meat... Feet.
Whistle & Flute... Suit.
Gregory Peck... Neck.
There's loads.
Also, talking of Michael Caine, who remembers "The Self Preservation Society" from the Italian Job?? :D
Here you go...
MQuote:
This is the self-preservation society
This is the self-preservation society
Go wash your German bands, your boat race too
Comb your Barnet Fair we got a lot to do
Put on your Dickie Dirt and your Peckham Rye
Cause time's soon hurrying by
Get your skates on mate, get your skates on mate
No bib around your Gregory Peck today, eh?
Drop your plates of meat right up on the seat
This is the self-preservation society
This is the self-preservation society
Gotta get a bloomin move on
Babadab-babadabadab-bab-ba
Gotta get a bloomin move on
Babadab-babadabadab-bab-ba
Jump in the jam jar gotta get straight
Hurry up mate – don't wanna be late
How's your father?
Tickety boo
Tickety boo
Gotta get a bloomin move on
Self-preservation society
This is the self-preservation society
Put on your almond rocks and daisy roots
Wash your Hampstead Heath and wear your whistle and
flute
Lots of lah-di-dahs and cockneys here
Look alive and get out of here
So get your skates on mate, get your skates on mate
No bib around your Gregory Peck today, eh?
Drop your plates of meat right up on the seat
This is the self-preservation society
This is the self-preservation society
The origin of the expression is not entirely certain. It is probably a minced version of the blasphemous oath "(Oh) God!" (pronounced by Londoners to sound more like "gawd") ...this is lifted from the wiki being of the southern persuasion i think it would be derived from Gawd as we have a knack of lack of pronounciation especially if "t" appears halfway through a word water = wa-ar butter= bu-ar
me ol' mucker dennis waterman lame as a buggered horse can't act for toffee,
but john thaw great bloke especially in his later stuff before he carked it.
and of course the sweeney is rhyming slang in it's own right "sweeney todd" flying squad which is part of the met police ...er vice i think