From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 21:11:41 PDT
Close, but no sitar.
Crackers=crazy
Rozzer=cop
Dropsey=bribe
Snide=counterfeit(money)
apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce C. Beattie" <bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 11:31 PM
Subject: [MV] Translation
> One of our illustrious members produced the following phrase, which I
> thought
> was a bit of a stretch for most of us colonials. So I asked a friend for
> a translation
> and this is what I got:
>
> "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsey in snide"
>
> Crackers *means * crazy
> Rozzer *means *police officer
> Dropsey *means *getting away .....
> Snide *means *sly underhanded, crafty...
>
> Bruce MVPA 23824
>
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