Another breakdown in transpond communication

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#112746 - 09/25/03 10:18 PM Another breakdown in transpond communication
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	Anybody on the N. American side recognise the expression "on my tod"? Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#112747 - 09/25/03 10:31 PM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	It sounds like you're sitting on your drink. In other words, no, I don't recognize it.
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#112748 - 09/26/03 04:42 AM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
shanks old hand Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 1004 Loc: London, UK	Oh dear And which of our Namerican cousins did you attack with this Bridiom for 'on my own'? cheer the sunshine warrior ps. Haven't a clue what the origins of the expression might be. You?
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#112749 - 09/26/03 04:49 AM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	No idea as to its origin, no. Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#112750 - 09/26/03 05:17 AM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7185 Loc: Vermont	never heard it before, but would it come from "on my death"? as in, a "by my life" sort of thing... just a too early in the morning thought. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#112751 - 09/26/03 05:28 AM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK	Rhyming slang from Tod Sloan, the name of a famous American jockey. He was married to Julia Sanderson (1887-1975) an actress and singer. There is no particular logic to rhyming slang, Tod Sloane would simply have been a name that was well known in the rhyming slang forming community at the time.
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#112752 - 09/26/03 05:33 AM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7185 Loc: Vermont	dixbey, is that hogwarsh®? _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#112753 - 09/26/03 09:10 AM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta	e.g. on the phone: Do you wanna go out for dinner? Candi's away and I'm all on my tod. Teacher: Did someone help you with this? Pupil: No, honest. I did it all on my tod. Bingley _________________________ Bingley
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#112754 - 09/27/03 05:33 PM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
Capfka Pooh-Bah Registered: 06/28/02 Posts: 1624 Loc: Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok	I wouldn't expect to hear "all on my tod", just "on my tod". I can't say it's wrong, but it's not something I've heard. And I thought it came, somehow, from Sweeney Todd, a kind of latterday Cockney conservation of expression, using both parts of the name in different places. But I have never confirmed it. Speaking of which, I saw what passes for the Sweeney these days in action in central London last night. Cars and coppers appeared from nowhere and the Bill broke into a house off Soho Square with very little - no, let me rephrase that, no ceremony. John Thaw wasn't there, though. Well, he wouldn't be would he, being dead an' all?
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#112755 - 09/28/03 04:24 PM Re: Another breakdown in transpond communication
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	> being dead an' all? you mean he's toddled off?
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