From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 22:19:43 PDT
Funny you should say that Arthur, I remember bringing a sitar back from
india to give to
my brother.
As for the translation, I will have to talk to my friends accross the pond.
Bruce
m35products wrote:
>Close, but no sitar.
>
>Crackers=crazy
>Rozzer=cop
>Dropsey=bribe
>Snide=counterfeit(money)
>
>apb
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bruce C. Beattie" <bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:31 PM
>Subject: [MV] Translation
>
>
>
>
>>One of our illustrious members produced the following phrase, which I
>>thought
>>was a bit of a stretch for most of us colonials. So I asked a friend for
>>a translation
>>and this is what I got:
>>
>>"It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsey in snide"
>>
>>Crackers *means * crazy
>>Rozzer *means *police officer
>>Dropsey *means *getting away .....
>>Snide *means *sly underhanded, crafty...
>>
>>Bruce MVPA 23824
>>
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