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I don't know about Sir ACD, Adam. But I'm pretty sure that applies to Gilbert & Sullivan. Some of Gilbert's lyrics are more like single entendres than double ones.
Love,
Caz
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PS I fell asleep during Sherlock so will have to catch up on iplayer - unless some kind soul would fill me in about the suicides mystery.
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." Peter Ustinov
It's also interesting to note some of the other changes in wording things that were acceptable back then but which would get you in quite a bit of strife now....for instance, a few times i've seen the "N" word mentioned when describing a person of colour....
They also used to say "You're a white man" as a sign of approval. Plus there were some strange last words e.g. "The professor - it was she." Good grammar at all times! And "You've done me" I think was Milverton's bid for immortality. Then there was that bit in The Crooked Man where a wife whose husband sold his love rival into the hands of the enemy, reproaches him with being another King David. At the height of a blazing row, the first parallel that springs to mind is Biblical.
I remember being told as a child to "play the white man". Wikipedia comments that "the term is losing popularity in common parlance."
Hi Chris,
Yes, I remember the use of "Play the white man" being common back in the 70's. Also, "Don't Jew me" or "Don't Jew me down" and "Don't Jew out on me" etc. In England the use of the term "Paki" got used for anyone descended from anywhere at all in the Indian Sub-Continent!!! Almost everyone, myself included, would say "I'm just off to the Paki shop", usually meaning the corner shop, without a second thought! Nowadays if I hear the term "Paki" used, it just sounds so out of place/out of time. I don't know when this change happened, there was no "Light on the road to Damascus" moment, but everyone I know says, and has for years, "I'm just off to the shop". Or, in our native Yorkshire dialect, "Just off t'shop"!!!
Best Wishes,
Zodiac.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
One must indeed ejaculate where Mrs Hudson is concerned. Mrs Hudson does not like to be kept waiting
Hi Belinda,
Indeed!!! In fact, it was whispered abroad that our own dear sweet Mrs Hudson did, in fact, keep a dwarf Laskar with odd shoes and unpleasant hair, who had recently been discharged from the Welsh Fusiliers and had since fallen on hard times, but who was said to be "Blessed" in another department, chained up in her pantry for, as my old friend Mr Sherlock Holmes used to put it, "Her own purposes"!!!
Indeed!!! In fact, it was whispered abroad that our own dear sweet Mrs Hudson did, in fact, keep a dwarf Laskar with odd shoes and unpleasant hair, who had recently been discharged from the Welsh Fusiliers and had since fallen on hard times, but who was said to be "Blessed" in another department, chained up in her pantry for, as my old friend Mr Sherlock Holmes used to put it, "Her own purposes"!!!
Best Wishes,
Zodiac.
The woman deserves a Medal!After all that running around she has to do for Holmes and Watson she still has the energy to keep a dwarf in the Pantry. Outstanding
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