Raging debate over the exclamation, ‘We’re doomed, doomed I tell ye.’ My money’s on this one:Mainwaring's 'Stupid boy', aimed … at Pike; Wilson's … 'Would you mind awfully falling into three lovely lines?'; Frazer's … 'We're doomed'; Hodges' … 'Ruddy hooligans!'; Godfrey's 'Would you mind if I was excused?'; and Jones's 'They don't like it up them', 'Handy-hock!'), 'Permission to speak, sir!', and 'Don't panic!'.
'Private James Frazer opened his undertakers business next door to Jones's butcher's shop in the High street, soon after he returned from the sea. Born on the Isle of Barra, he joined his first ship at the age of fourteen and spent the next thirty-five years roaming the world. Pearl fishing in the south seas, trading off the coast of Africa, a life packed full of adventure.
Raging Debate? Where? Can I get stuck in?
ReplyDeleteIt was undoubtedly Private Frazer's catchphrase, but it rang true for anyone with a passing acquaintance of your average only-just-post-Calvinist highlander...
Just came home from work,P-G and see you've caught me out in sensationalism. No doubt - blogs keep one honest. There was a debate on two American websites and I'll try to track them down and put the url here but they were less than worthy of arguing with, I think. They simply didn't know.
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