Thank you Jethro, that's very nice. How about some Elgar?
Re: Joe: Corblimey mate what a lovely post -- Jethro Top of thread Forum
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03/25/2005, 15:56:14
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Corblimey makes me think of Exeter and school many years ago.  It seemed the working class people used the word, which I think I had previosly heard in old movies.  I believe it has some religious derivation, something like "God Blind Me," or so I was told.  And you can also go for the more secular "blimey," which I think is just a derivation of "blind me," always as an exclamation of surprise.  Is that true?

But for this occasion you click on the red word MUSIC to something very English.

Do people in the UK still say "Cheese and Rice" as an alternative to "Jesus Christ?"  I always thought that was cute.  As an American I used to laugh that people thought "bloody" was a dirty word.

Being a good Methodist, my mother always used to say "Judas, Priest" instead of "Jesus Christ" and "shoot" instead of "shit."  "Shoot" it still a very common exclamation in the American South.  My ex, who is black and his framily was from Tennessee originally, used to use "shoot" when he talked to his family, and I never heard him ever use it otherwise.






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