Two tickets to the world cup

[twentysix by twentyfive]

What's all this - who's getting a Brazilian?

 

[welsh dragon]

What's all this - who's getting a Brazilian?

Brazilian nuts?

 

[classic33]

What's all this - who's getting a Brazilian?

I've won tickets to the world cup.

 

[classic33]

Oh and @SteCenturion, hasn't been seen since I gave him my account details. In order that he could pay to get to the top off the list.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've won tickets to the world cup.

Ah - yes - so a Brazilian trip then

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Oh and @SteCenturion, hasn't been seen since I gave him my account details. In order that he could pay to get to the top off the list.

I'm happy to pick up any scraps that fall off the table (story of my life )

 

[classic33]

I'm happy to pick up any scraps that fall off the table (story of my life )

Know the feeling. Old George appeared to pop his clogs before he could sign £2,000,000 over to me.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Where does the phrase 'Pop your clogs' originate from anyway??

Sorry, got a bit distracted there

 

[classic33]

Pop referred to selling something. Yer clogs were no longer required once dead, and would often be one of the first things sold

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Pop referred to selling something. Yer clogs were no longer required once dead, and would often be one of the first things sold

Cool!! Thanks!!
What do you think the modern equivalent would be??

'Pop Your Uggs'?

 

[classic33]

Wiki Answers gives
"To 'pop' - slang for taking something to a pawnbrokers. Clogs were used (umongst others) by poor millworkers in the North of England in the 19th/early 20th century."
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_origin_of_the_idiom_'_pop_your_clogs'

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Thanks, I was going to look it up but had various other posts in my 'alerts' to look at first, so thanks for getting in there before me and making me look like a lazy git!!

 

[classic33]

Thanks, I was going to look it up but had various other posts in my 'alerts' to look at first, so thanks for getting in there before me and making me look like a lazy git!!

Not a problem, happy to help.
Helps that I remembered it from school though.

 

[Archie_tect]

Where does the phrase 'Pop your clogs' originate from anyway??

It's the result of Olympic speed skaters changing from wooden clogs to inflatable plastic ones during the Dutch Elm Disease epidemic of the late 1980s when elm wood was in short supply. At times the skaters would occasionally get punctures in their inflatable clogs during events, hence the phrase, 'popping your clogs'.

 

[welsh dragon]

It's the result of Olympic speed skaters changing from wooden clogs to inflatable plastic ones during the Dutch Elm Disease epidemic of the late 1980s when elm wood was in short supply. At times the skaters would occasionally get punctures in their inflatable clogs during events, hence the phrase, 'popping your clogs'.

Its a good job it's not April fools day. If it was I'm sure there are some people who would actually believe that.