BS: F*** my old boots?

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: Gervase
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:48 AM

They were large boots, large boots, boots as heavy as lead
with a dextorous twist of his muscular wrist
he could flick it right into the tread.
A popular catch from the Great War, although the word 'boots' was a bowdlerisation - originally it was 'balls'.
There's an amusing account of a young subaltern enthusiastically leading his company in a rendition of the song as they marched up towards the line just before the battle of the Somme; singing his lungs out with great gusto entirely unaware that the battalion colonel was standing quietly by the road watching them march past. He later had an interview without coffee with said colonel and was told that such behaviour was 'inappropriate' for an officer and a gentleman.

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: acegardener
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 06:06 AM

They were large boots, large boots, boots as heavy as lead
with a dextorous twist of his muscular wrist
he could flick it right into the tread.

Well there's the chorus with a small twist on a well known song

Here's the first verse

There was a young man called anthony clare
he couldn't find love or sex anywhere
It might have been caused by his gingery hair
so he ended up f'#king is boots


who's got the next verse?

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: C-flat
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 04:04 AM

... he got "perversion" and "diversion" all mixed up!!!

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 08:29 PM

The phrase may not have got this far north but the act has...

from trainers to traffic cones

(BTW I used to know that guy slightly. What made the traffic cone incident even more OTT was that he was doing it with the wide end).

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 12:10 PM

Hey, Let's not show 'bigotry'. Somebody might want to MARRY those boots!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: MikeL2
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 07:39 AM

hi

Like Michael I first met with this phrase when I was doing my National Service - I was in the RAF.

I always interpreted as that other well known saying.. " well blow me down".

Don't hear it these days though.

cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 07:06 AM

C-flat; first time I heard it was at Newcastle City Hall uttered by John Martyn after the spotlight had blinded him.

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: Amergin
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 04:59 AM

Well, whoever tried it first must have had a very small peter for it to have fit one of those eyelets....

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 04:54 AM

I must have lived a sheltered life....
That expression doesn't seem to have made it to Bristol..

I've heard of popping your clogs but not that, who would want to do that to a rancid pair of boots? Mind you it is early in the morning, I don't get it yet.

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: C-flat
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 01:31 PM

.... ok ok North East....:-)

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 01:04 PM

In the RASC in my National Service time, 1951-52, it was always "Fuck my second-best boots", & was a sort of phatic expression of surprise or satisfaction.

A use of the phrase in a folksong, often a little euphemised, is in Ratcliffe Highway: e.g. version in Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Vaughan Williams & Lloyd): "A gold watch hung over the mantel, So the change for my guinea I take, And down the stairs I run nimbly, Saying 'Darn my old boots, I'm well paid" ~~ tho Frank Purslow I recall singing it a little differently, & rather better rhymed ~ "The gold watch hanging over the mantel as change for my guinea I seized, Then nimbly I nipped down the stairs, crying dang me old boots, I'm well pleased".

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: theleveller
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 12:19 PM

"That expression doesn't seem to have made it North.. "

It's frequently used here in Yorkshire.

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: C-flat
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 12:17 PM

I must have lived a sheltered life....
That expression doesn't seem to have made it North..

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: acegardener
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 11:40 AM

Well, f#"k my old boots! was another way of saying 'unbelievable'

In mixed company I would usually say 'Well I'll fornicate with my ancient footwear!' when I was flabberghasted.

Never heard it sung though, is it a good song?

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 11:35 AM

On the Glastonbury Fayre (1971) album Andy Dunkley exclaims Fuck my old boots what a set! The Edgar Broughton Band! after a 20-minute Out Demons Out.

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: theleveller
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 11:02 AM

"Fuck my old brown boots" has been in common useage for some time.

Subject: RE: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 10:38 AM

Well, to each his own....

Subject: BS: F*** my old boots?
From: C-flat
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 10:37 AM

The police marksman who shot dead Mark Saunders in the recent stand-off with armed police has been repremanded for inserting song titles into his evidence in court.

"An examination of the transcript shows that evidence given by AZ8 contained a number phrases which are also the titles of songs, including Enough is Enough by Donna Summer, Point of No Return by Buzzcocks, Line of Fire by Journey, Quiet Moments by Chris de Burgh, Kicking Myself by As Tall As Lions and Fuck My Old Boots by the Membranes."

Kind of shocking and funny at the same time....

" Fuck my old boots" ??? That's a new one on me!