(Okay, maybe it was all the time spent reading middle english stuff in
school.)
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: bling bling (Was RE: lord of the rhymes)
> You forgot the second paragraph:
>
> Ryollyn inne hyes Eysecalayde, phyatte baeayettes pyeaumpyn,
> blinge-blinge shyneyen, ayll hys hyomies ere jyumpyn.
>
> - Jim
>
> Kevin Graeme wrote:
>
> >The oldest recorded use of the word according to the OED was in 1303:
> >
> >1. A bulgy bag. Obs.
> >
> > 1303 R. BRUNNE Handl. Synne 502 ere was a wycche, and made a bagge, A
bely
> >of leyr, a grete swagge.
> >
> >
> >-Kevin
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Harkins,Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:31 AM
> >Subject: RE: bling bling (Was RE: lord of the rhymes)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I do remember the skit but not the large bag. Is that where the term
swag
> >>originated? I always wondered about that too! Thanks for the
> >>explanation....!
> >>-Pat
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Sent: January 5, 2004 11:26 AM
> >>To: CF-Community
> >>Subject: Re: bling bling (Was RE: lord of the rhymes)
> >>
> >>
> >>Remember John Cleese in that Monty Python skit as Dennis Moore riding
> >>through the land, stealing lupins from innocent travellers in a large
> >>bag labelled "SWAG"? If the lupins were in fact flashy jewelry, and the
> >>bag were labeled "Bling-Bling", well, then you have your answer.
> >>
> >>- Jim, in a roundabout way.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
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