Compo 10,328 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Bobbies on 'Point duty'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Bobbies! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 I was driving slowly through the Wick harbour district yesterday and saw a poliswoman on a corner with a wireless; around the corner was a polis car with a polisman getting out very quickly and around the next corner was a plain clothes polisman diving out of his car and attacking a youth, with the other polisman joining in; a third car sped up shortly afterwards. Don't know what the youth had done but there was no way they were going to be polite and arrest him quietly. I eagerly await the Friday John O'Groat Journal to see what-like. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Is that the same as a policeman ? (Well that's what we sassenachs call them anyway) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 The same; as in "Run, atsh ee polis!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Re Polis, that's how it's spelt in Turkish, and pronounced, all turkish words thus, makes life easier, unlike for example Derby, Leicester, brough, daughter, would be darby, lester, brow, dawter etc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Bobbies. Clipping kids around the ear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 If Bobbies was derived from 'Robert Peel', as was Peelers, where was the term Rozzers for policemen derived from?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Mid 17th century 'constables' wore civilan clothes,badge of rank was a black silk rosette worn on the coat lapel.This may have coined the name or term 'rozzer'. Mick should know the answer . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Mick knows just about everyfink.................he's Klever..............that's why he's admin'....................min' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 Mudgie and Paulus... See my signature Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 This from Carol Pozefsky Etymology: The origins of English words and phrases. Anchor/Reporter NBC and CBS Networks. News Director 3 regional radio stations The word 'police' stems from the Greek word 'politeia' meaning, state, administration, government. In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find the word 'policie' meaning organized government, civil administrati n. Later in about 1589 we find the French word 'policer' meaning to keep order. The first recorded use in English of 'police' in specific reference to those concerned with enforcing the law and maintaining public order is found in about 1730 in Scotland. Several reliable sources indicate that 'rozzer' is simply a nonsense word with no clear etymology. There was a suggestion that it originated in the works of author P.G. Wodehouse but that couldn't be confirmed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Crikey Compo........you's is nearly as klever as Mick........................or can you also google like a good 'un................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Sorry it's Carol that's clever..................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Four Star petrol at 69.3 ppl 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Four Star petrol at 69.3 ppl Naaaah! that's a sign going up next week...you just can't see the one in front of the six... Edit....I'll tell you what ...it must be a while back...that scrap metal wouldn't be there five minutes now. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 No leaded/unleaded choice now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 2, 2012 Report Share Posted March 2, 2012 Crikey Compo........you's is nearly as klever as Mick........................or can you also google like a good 'un................... That'n were googled Paulus mi duk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 We had one of these at home when I was a kid. Does anyone remember the tall collection boxes in the figures of children that Barnardo's used outside/around businesses? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,602 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Ash trays on pub tables (indoors) Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 I rember the Barnardo's collection boxes were they A small boy and a taller girl? With Barnardoe's written around a round base? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 That's it. Wasn't there something similar (another charity) that had a little boy in a leg caliper? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 I remember that also. Spastics Society perhaps? A name not particularly politically correct nowadays. Also Polio was about then? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Since when has a soddin' politician been correct? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 I was thinking the same thing when I typed it Poobear Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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