British night on Richmond!
May. 18th, 2008 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeylerThe sun is setting on a sweet Sunday night, so of course abqdan starts playing some of his vast collection of old British drinking songs he's got on .mp3.
Some of it takes QUITE the mental strain of interpretation for me, a mere Murkin. Stanley Holloway is surprisingly intelligible, but obscure.
One of the songs had some cockney rhyming slang references I didn't remember from my intensive Brit training 5 years ago..."Dutch." Danny knew it meant "wife" but he didn't know why...
So I did my own search and found the answer....but only after we answered all 25 questions, MOSTLY correctly! (with Danny's help)
We challenge you!
British drinking songs predate kareoke by decades, if not centuries, and seem much more social.
abqdan starts playing some of his vast collection of old British drinking songs he's got on .mp3. Some of it takes QUITE the mental strain of interpretation for me, a mere Murkin. Stanley Holloway is surprisingly intelligible, but obscure.
One of the songs had some cockney rhyming slang references I didn't remember from my intensive Brit training 5 years ago..."Dutch." Danny knew it meant "wife" but he didn't know why...
So I did my own search and found the answer....but only after we answered all 25 questions, MOSTLY correctly! (with Danny's help)
We challenge you!
British drinking songs predate kareoke by decades, if not centuries, and seem much more social.
