Tha meeans, "Na'then mi owd, ar's it gooin", which, as we all know is an almost literal translation from the French of "Eh beh mon vieux, comment ça va?"

As for mardy. There's always been an enemy. Long before Bin Laden and Saddam there was 'Itler and before him Kaiser Bill, etc. and in 1885 the British forces under General "Chinese" Gordon were beaten at Khartoum by The Mad Mahdi. Just a thought.