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lol Bill

I like reminding my brother of that old saying. He's a lawyer :-D

bill

Where did you get the information from that cockney slang originated in the Navy?

How brilliant you are LadyScozz :-D :-D

An "old" Scottish word for crows is "corbies"

An old Scottish saying.........

After a battle, first come the corbies, then come the lawyers.



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Budgie. A lot or even most of the cockney slang originated in the Royal Navy. then was transported to Australia, by Convicts.

Cor Blimey came from 'God blind me' when you see something you shouldn't have.

Sharron.Sounds like a naval expression.

My grandmother always said 'Well I'll go to sea in a tar tub!'.

Crows were unwelcome guests at sheep farms as, given the chance, they will kill and eat newborn lambs, so the association with annoyance isn't hard to see. The link in meaning to surprise isn't obvious, but then there's no particular reason to expect to find one. Stoning crows was a commonplace enough activity and calling it up into a phrase could have been done for no reason other than that the person who coined it just liked the sound of it. There are other expressions of surprise or annoyance like I'll go to the foot of our stairs, strike me pink, I'll be a monkey's uncle or if that don't take the rag off the bush. None of these have any sensible literal meaning and stone the crows is another to add to that list.

Hi Bill,
another phrase for showing astonishment is "Cor Blimey!", for some unknown reason I always associate it with cockney slang. Whether that's where it originated I have no idea.. :-S


Edit: just found an explanation for it and it says... derived from "God Blind Me" sounds about right ,don't ya think? :-D

BillinOz. Thanks for the link, I'm a okay with spiders, not too happy with the crows.

Dermot I worked with a man around about that time, he said he played in their band I had never heard of them. I looked on I tube this morning and found the band, didn't recognise my ex colleague though, but it has been a long time, he probably wouldn't recognise me either. ;-)

Your a Treasure SCOZZ.
Yes I'm still around

I think I saw them........

they were singing "I'm a half-stoned cowboy" :-D

'Stone the Crows' was a blues-rock band formed in Glasgow in late 1969.

Not much help - is it?

Polly, Heres a Video you may like.

http://www.bobinoz.com/blog/5749/time-for-our-fourth-annual-pest-control-treatment/.
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Scozz , My Favorite Restuarant in Hong Kone was the "Waltzing Matilda"

it was often the case that rolling stones were stoned!

don't forget all the crows at Wagga Wagga :-D

From Wikipedia ~

The Aboriginal inhabitants of the Wagga Wagga region were the Wiradjuri people and the term "Wagga" and derivatives of that word in the Wiradjuri aboriginal language is thought to mean crow. To create the plural, the Wiradjuri repeat a word, thus 'Wagga Wagga' translates to 'the place of many crows'.


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Many years ago, DH & I went to an "Australian" restaurant in Hong Kong, named "The Stoned Crow".

Modern Bill? :-S Have they been usurped by pretenders? :-0

http://youtu.be/kTUIhKQAUZU

Stone The Crows! Maggie Bell lead singer. Great band :-D