Gawd blimey trousers; Doe's anyone know what these are?

[GTWayne]

Alright, so your old man is a dustman and, obviously, he more than likely wears a dustmans hat, I can accept that, and we all have to live somewhere and a flat owned by the council is as good a place as any I guess but the thing that has often perplexed me is what on earth are 'gawd blimey trousers'?, any suggestions?

[Fort Jefferson]

Cor Blimey trousers were commonly worn by dustmen (as in the song) and coal merchants. They are tousers of courderoy (sometimes moleskin) - very baggy and are tied just below the knee with string or rope. Which of course begs a further question - why are Cor Blimey trousers tied below the knee?


Cor Blimey is the East End equivalent of saying wtf or cool these days. It covers a multitude of expressions or exclamations including things like, "Bleedin' 'ell!", "Wow!", "Well stone the crows!" and "Impressive!"

[Ordinary Bloke]

Cor Blimey Trousers is what Dustman wear...





and Cor Blimey was a character on the Goon Show, maybe there's a connection

[Engineer1]

at a guess the tied above the knee is to stop rodents getting up to the crown jewels

[lazy_b]

Fort Jefferson said:

Cor Blimey trousers were commonly worn by dustmen (as in the song) and coal merchants. They are tousers of courderoy (sometimes moleskin) - very baggy and are tied just below the knee with string or rope. Which of course begs a further question - why are Cor Blimey trousers tied below the knee?

It's ter stop the rats running up yer trahser leg. 'S obvious, innit?

I have a vague idea that the strings are (were?) called "yorks", but I can't find a reference anywhere...

[mybrainhurts]

Fort Jefferson said:

Cor Blimey is the East End equivalent of saying wtf or cool these days. It covers a multitude of expressions or exclamations including things like, "Bleedin' 'ell!", "Wow!", "Well stone the crows!" and "Impressive!"

....you beauty

In fact, I think you deserve a....



Where's me washboard....?

[Wacky Racer]

Enjoy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR7I3HfLcF4

[immigrant]

On a similar theme, and puzzling to an immigrant, whats with the wearing of hankies on heads as seen in Monty Python?

[Fort Jefferson]

mybrainhurts said:

Fort Jefferson said:

Cor Blimey is the East End equivalent of saying wtf or cool these days. It covers a multitude of expressions or exclamations including things like, "Bleedin' 'ell!", "Wow!", "Well stone the crows!" and "Impressive!"

....you beauty

In fact, I think you deserve a....



Where's me washboard....?

Why thank you sir, but it was ripped off from here

[mybrainhurts]

Wacky Racer said:

Enjoy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR7I3HfLcF4

Great, thanks...

By 'eck, that's where Kenny Everett got his inspiration...

Couldn't put my finger on it until now...

Edited by mybrainhurts on Wednesday 12th March 22:05

[RDE]

What if the hokey cokey is what it's all about?

[MentalSarcasm]

immigrant said:

On a similar theme, and puzzling to an immigrant, whats with the wearing of hankies on heads as seen in Monty Python?

Cheap sun hat.

[Huntsman]

RDE said:

What if the hokey cokey is what it's all about?

When Larry La Prise, who wrote the Hokey Cokey died, they had as hell of a job to get his body in the coffin, left leg in, left leg out...in out in out...

Boom boom!

[DWP]

MentalSarcasm said:

immigrant said:

On a similar theme, and puzzling to an immigrant, whats with the wearing of hankies on heads as seen in Monty Python?

Cheap sun hat.

As seen on my Grandad on Blackpool Beach 1957. He would take off his flat cap and replace with lighter more relaxed hankie. Don't know if he had different one for Sundays.

[JonRB]

Huntsman said:

RDE said:

What if the hokey cokey is what it's all about?

When Larry La Prise, who wrote the Hokey Cokey died, they had as hell of a job to get his body in the coffin, left leg in, left leg out...in out in out...

Boom boom!

Wasted gag opportunity there.

The actual joke is "they had a hell of a job to get his body into the coffin. They managed to get the left leg in and then the problems really started".

More subtle, see? So funnier.

[mybrainhurts]

HO HO HO

[Blib]

immigrant said:

On a similar theme, and puzzling to an immigrant, whats with the wearing of hankies on heads as seen in Monty Python?

Pre historic baseball caps

HTH

[ginettajoe]

JonRB said:

Huntsman said:

RDE said:

What if the hokey cokey is what it's all about?

When Larry La Prise, who wrote the Hokey Cokey died, they had as hell of a job to get his body in the coffin, left leg in, left leg out...in out in out...

Boom boom!

Wasted gag opportunity there.

The actual joke is "they had a hell of a job to get his body into the coffin. They managed to get the left leg in and then the problems really started".

More subtle, see? So funnier.

Correction! ..... With all the sadness & trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote "The Hokey Kokey" died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him in the coffin. They put his left leg in, and then the fking trouble started!!

[Six Fiend]

mybrainhurts said:

Wacky Racer said:

Enjoy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR7I3HfLcF4

Great, thanks...

By 'eck, that's where Kenny Everett got his inspiration...

Couldn't put my finger on it until now...

Edited by mybrainhurts on Wednesday 12th March 22:05

I don't recall Kenny doing that? Paul Whitehouse did Arthur Atkinson...