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By *uckscouple2007 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

interesting fact heard on Pointless quiz on BBC1 the other day ...

the first known use of the cockney-rhyming slang for Curry - Ruby Murray - was ...

on an episode of Only Fools & Horses in 1983

would have thought it was older than that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Which begs the question: Who was Ruby Murray? Was she a real person or someone the script writers created?

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By *abloBackMan
over a year ago

London

Ruby Murray was a fifties singer, we used ruby long before delboy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And here she is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOA3xyWoD4

Softly, Softly - No.1 in 1955

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By *uckscouple2007 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

but ... in 'rhyming slang' folklore ...

these days, esp 'down sarf' , going for a Ruby is a common phrase ... just thought it dated back to before the '80s

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By *orflondonerMan
over a year ago

Wood Green

She was a singer from Northern Ireland, i believe

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By *uckscouple2007 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bucks


"She was a singer from Northern Ireland, i believe"

who was?

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

The term was around long before Fools and Horses....

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By *ucky_LadsCouple (MM)
over a year ago

Kidderminster+ surrounding areas.


"Ruby Murray was a fifties singer, we used ruby long before delboy"

was a hell of a long time before delboy used the term in fools and horses!,i can recall used in 60s.

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By *uckscouple2007 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bucks


"The term was around long before Fools and Horses...."

that is what believed but apparently OF&H was first 'recorded' use of the phrase

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay


"The term was around long before Fools and Horses....

that is what believed but apparently OF&H was first 'recorded' use of the phrase"

As everyday Londoners conversations aren't recorded then that may well be the case....but any Londoner would laugh at the claim that John Sullivan made the term up....because it precedes his writing of the F&H scripts by a long time

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By *uckscouple2007 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bucks


"The term was around long before Fools and Horses....

that is what believed but apparently OF&H was first 'recorded' use of the phrase

As everyday Londoners conversations aren't recorded then that may well be the case....but any Londoner would laugh at the claim that John Sullivan made the term up....because it precedes his writing of the F&H scripts by a long time"

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By *ove2-shareCouple
over a year ago

South Gloucestershire


"The term was around long before Fools and Horses....

that is what believed but apparently OF&H was first 'recorded' use of the phrase

As everyday Londoners conversations aren't recorded then that may well be the case....but any Londoner would laugh at the claim that John Sullivan made the term up....because it precedes his writing of the F&H scripts by a long time"

for a brief while jimmy saville meant traville, cos of the old clunk click and age of the train ads, but it didnt catch on Jimmy means going for a waz

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By *abloBackMan
over a year ago

London

Jimmy riddle piddle

Nelson riddle fiddle ie con

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