Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Ginger too

I was just listening to an old episode of Steptoe and Son on BBC 7. In it, Albert warns Harold to be wary of the bed salesman because 'he's ginger.'
'How do you know?'
'He's got a hankie in his top pocket; that's a sure sign.'

I've never heard the term in that usage before.

I just googled it and, sure enough, it's cockney ryming slang. Ginger beer = queer = homosexual.

I'll say it again: blogging is educational.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I google everything... and get some erm, very education results :0)

My kids are being edcuated by youtube and wikipedia,could be worse, they could be in school! ;0)

Anonymous said...

oh the link to me has an extra / on the end which why you're getting an error.

CherryPie said...

Now I have learned something new too!!!

Leslie: said...

That's a new one for me, too.