Who said swinging dodgy

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So, Res Hist - remains of - any to contribute? Ta Ta for now, P quote Itma again- and a grandmother using it. Bill Shakespeare's given us a few hasn't he? A couple that I found particularly irritating possibly because my younger brother did imitations of them in the mistaken belief he was being funny were Norman Vaughan with "Roses grow on you" and "Swinging, dodgy Elsie Tanner". Catherine Tate's "How very dare you" was in quite regular usage relatively recently.

I'm sure I've read somewhere that the Elizabethan comic actor, Robert Armin, had a catch phrase: "Anon, sir, at once sir I had forgotten there used to be a kids' rhyme "Swinging dodgy Elsie Tanner, Albert Tatlock lost a spanner". One of the simplest and most effective slogans of the 20th century: Presidential Election. Slogans vary from the written and the visual to the chanted and the vulgar. Their simple rhetorical nature usually leaves little room for detail and a chanted slogan may serve more as social expression of unified purpose than as communication to an intended audience.

George E. Shankel's , as cited in Denton Jr. There are quite a few slogans from public health campaigns etc. One of the most famous was: 'Coughs and Sneezes spread diseases catch them in your handkerchief! There hasn't been an outbreak of its like since so maybe it really did change human behaviour for the better. From the s we got: 'Clunk Click Every Trip' This was to encourage the use of the car seat belts in the years before they became compulsory.

One I remember from my time in Hong Kong was: 'Mosquitoes breed in standing water Be aware - give them no quarter Clear stagnant drains after the rains And help protect your son and daughter' What struck me about this was that it is in English when the overwhelming majority of Hong Kongers are Cantonese speaking.

This led me to suspect that it was borrowed from elsewhere in the British Empire or even beyond — Singapore or Queensland or Calcutta or Florida perhaps.

Does anyone know? Perhaps slogans appear to bear more weight if written in English. Norman Vaughan. Comedian and variety host. He is survived by his wife, a son and three step-daughters. Topics Television industry obituaries.