Hey my UK buddies. I got a question, what is a grasshopper? As in ". . . where were you that cold December cause we were in the grasshopper spending guilders." I figure its some kinda rhyming slang, but I can't work out what rhymes with grasshopper, or what you could add to the word grasshopper to make it rhyme with something (Like you add plate to china, then china means mate.) While we're add it, I figure that a marlon is a drink. "If it's his round I'm quite partial to another marlon at the bar." But why is that. Is this rhyming slang as well. Thanks, y'all. :cheers2:
Reading the lyrics...The Streets: Too much brandy It seems to me that "grasshopper" is a pub and "guilders" is money. So, he is asking where somebody was, because he was down the pub spending money (in other words drinking lots of beer). So I don't think it is slang.
Hmm, maybe try googling for a cockney rhyming slang dictionary.. but I don't think it is that, tis a puzzle.
Take a butchers at the lyrics. Smell of good earthy herbs makes my nerves shudder but where were you that cold December cos we were in the Grasshopper spending guildersCentral Station, charged up like Scarface Amsterdam ain't a nice place off your face, we enter the race Walk down, been there before, done that, no joy, if you're bored, let's go see Roy, get fucked up with the boys Calvin, Schmalvin, I'm well within my limit, oh hang on a minute, these mushrooms just kicked in, think I might be finished The ball game heads for the worse, for what it's worth I might just fall off the edge of the earth, brain's kind of surfing now We wander down darkened pathways in a daze, "Want to buy any cocaine?", am I paranoid? "Yes, you're paranoid" Charlie, darling, please save me, this is raving, take me home to my baby, two bags of mushrooms, room's mushed up and I need a cradle In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy Now getting to the bar's gonna be trouble So the Marlons'll have to be doubles Then you drink doubles The same speed you drink singles Ah beautiful, the barman holds aloft the crystal glass and I'm having all that's in the bubble in the bottom of the bottle Then by three or four, your head's a bit mangled Club's full, you mingle You dance the fandango You sing all your favourite jingles Far gone on one, call me Baron Von Marlon One has a monocle and cigar Dickie-bow and long johns My utility belt tells me it's to the bar Batman Fat cans of that lager then it's straight to the dance-floor For much more fancy footwork, it's adored by many amour Don't bore me with your little sidestep technique Get to the beat, loosen up, it's The Streets In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy We eat junk food, sat drunk on the tube Every time the train clunks I feel like puking Wonder whether that beautiful bird'll ring, Then it all goes hazy, these are the days we're walking up out and back to the road, talking Well shouting actually, loads more drunk, by Jove, mind's focused, balance fucked up Ra, ra, ra, it's all back to the Dogstar and if it's his round I'm quite partial to another Marlon at the bar Bad idea to start again late, should've given my brain a break Take it easy mate, you start to think you're a state, you definitely are a state In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy
Legend has it that Shakespeare used to make his own words up. Can you imagine having this conversation in his time?
I'd just say: "Shakespear I don't understand the word you said, and I don't have a computer to help find out where the origins of it may have came from". It might be a little weird for Shakepeare to be in my time. It might be weird for me to be in his time and discusing computers.
He'd probably think you made the word "computer" up, and steal it for one of his plays, but get the meaning horribly wrong and we'd have a play called Computer and computers would be called MacBeths in some horrible alternate history. See what I mean? It's not a pretty thought. If I ever got the chance to travel back to any point in history, I'd definitely not travel back to Shakespearian times to ask Shakespeare about computers.
I'm still getting my head around the time travel aspect of this scenario, to be honest. Then I'd be explaining to him the difference between a PC and a Mac. He'd then probably want to know who Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were. Now that is not a pretty thought, I grant you.
Now there is a question for the ages. Would Shakespeare have been a PC or Mac guy? Thinking about other highly acclaimed writers, I'd have to say Mac. Hey, maybe he could get a job writing "I'm a Mac! and I'm a PC!" adverts that don't annoy everybody!
"Thinking about other highly acclaimed writers" If he was around now, he would be exposed for the hack he is. He does not deserve to use a computer.
It's lyrics to a song by The Streets; Too Much Brandy. And I went online and found that a marlon is slang for a brandy, not just any kind of drink, after Marlon Brando. I guess a grasshopper is a pub, but I was just curious as too why. Don't make no sense. And yes guilders were money, they have the Euro in the Low Countries now, but they used to spend guilders back in the day. Can anyone confirm that a grasshopper is a pub. To me a grasshopper is a policeman (grasshopper = copper) Now, I'm quite partial to a couple of Britneys down the Ringo. Ta. :cheers2:
There is, here are a few.: The Grasshopper, london (Station Street) The Grasshopper, Amsterdam, Netherlands (fits in with guilders and earthy herbs). If it is supposed to mean copper, then it would make no senses IMO.
i would have thought he was talking about a coffeeshop myself :sifone: if smell of herbs make his nerves shudder later on they say they are going to the bar so why wouldn't they just call it 'grasshopper' there as well
The pub just IS called the Grasshopper! Why is it The Kings Arms or The Black Swan? Its just a name. Pubbish names I know theres a Grasshopper in Amsterdam because i used to know this French guy whod got all beermats and placemats with the logo and name on, and i asked about em and he said they were from Amsterdam in the Grasshopper, full of people smoking and the like So they were in there spending their money and it stank like the old herbs
What ! I have no idea what you said. You're lucky we have west virginia or tennessee would be the brunt of our jokes. Peace
