Wierd sayings

[Cyclefrance]

Originally Posted by wolf

Rin-Tin-Tin's boy was named Rusty. No last name. I seem to recall him being the charming orphan that for some reason lived at the Cavalry fort.

I am young enoug that Rin-Tin-Tin predates me by quite a few years, but old enough that the B&W reruns were on TV when I was a kid.

I liked the Lone Ranger a lot better.

Thanks Wolf - came back in a flash as I read it. Agree with you about Lone Ranger - those old silver bullets do it every time. Guy who played hime was Clay Silverheels(?)... And did you ever catch the strip of Lone Ranger in Mad Magazine? Good old Tonto (apparently tonto in Spanish means idiot!). Not to deviate too long from the purpose of this thread, would add that my favourite was Range Rider with JocK Mahoney - they just got the fight sound effects and actions to real 'total-awe' level from a young appreciative boy viewer's standpoint!

Saw your brass monkeys query - some do, some don't depends on the foundry doing the casting and whether there's enough brass left over ( you cold get some 'total-awe' ones from the right foundry!)

Which brings up another saying we have here: 'pull the other one, it's got bells on' meaning that the person saying it saw that someone was trying to play a joke on him or con him or embarass him. Think it comes from 'pulling the leg' meaning to play a prank on a person.

The only 'clean' reference to bells I can think of would be those strange country dancers we have known as Morris Men - all dressed in white trousers and shirts, wearing straw hats with ribbons, bells around the bottoms of their trousers, dancing in heavy duty boots and banging each others sticks (that they carry in their right hand) together. All to the accompaniment of unrecognisable tunes played on an accordion by a three-parts drunk person who insists on tapping his foot almost in time and swaying back and forth as he plays. See, I told you we were normal!