a bit like going/gone for a burton :confused:
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To get to you it would have to go West as well. :p
Another one that I don't know what it really means. :confused:
Although this is allegedly what going for a Burton means which would be appropriate on here.
It was RAF slang in world war two, and was taken from a series of adverts for Burton Ale - there would always be someone obviously missing from the scene, ie an empty chair or something, and the catch phrase was 'He's gone for a Burton'
RAF crews used it as a euphemism for people killed or missing in action.
:cheers:
where does drunk as a skunk come from?
do skunks even drink?
Actually I think that it was one of the warders that had to stay on the waggon while his colleagues accompanied the condemned for his last bowl of ale in this world. Thus he didn't get to drink and was therefore "on the waggon". Typically it would have been in the "Bowl" pub in St giles (although there were others), where The Angel pub sits today. I read of a case of one poor soul who declined the offer of ale, and thus arrived at Tyburn earlier than otherwise, and was executed before his stay of execution arrived! The moral here of course is never pass up the chance of a beer or two!