The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94313   Message #1824787
Posted By: The Walrus
01-Sep-06 - 02:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: language pyramide
Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
"How bona to varda you dolly old eek" - How nice it is to see you

"Varda the pallone with the bona lallies and the naff riah". - Look at the girl with the nice legs and bad hair.
(Polari*)

A theatrical slang of various origins, a mix of backslang, some Romany, Italian and other sources - later popular with the 'gay community' in the days when homosexuality was still illegal (and used as an act by Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick as 'Julian and Sandy' on the BBC's 'Round the Horne')