Kid Gloves
Extremely soft leather gloves, carried by gentleman, worn by fakirs, and slapped across the face of blackguards prior to demanding satisfaction.
Extremely soft leather gloves, carried by gentleman, worn by fakirs, and slapped across the face of blackguards prior to demanding satisfaction.
The Kop End is one of the stands at Liverpool Football Club's stadium at Anfield Rd.
On deeper research I discovered that other teams, including Wrexham and Norwich City also have Kop ends.
This us a bit like Athens Georgia having an Acropolis, but I digress.
The stand is named after Spion Kop, a mountain in Natal on the north side of the Tugela River, and 24 m. W.S.W. of Ladysmith. It is celebrated as the scene of a battle (Jan. 24, 1900) in the Transvaal War, in which the British forces under Sir Redvers Buller were defeated by the Boers. The Spion Kop incident led to much controversy; for an admirable elucidation of the facts see The Times History of tile l'Var in South Africa. The name itself (Dutch for "Look-out Hill") is fairly common as a place-name in South Africa.
It takes a peculiarly British sensibility to name part of a stadium after a heroic military defeat. Still, it gives the players the right idea.
If I ever have a son he's going to be called Redvers.
An order of Knights who did a bunch of dreadful things during the Crusades. Frankly I'm not really much good at pre-Empire history. Look them up on the web and you'll find they started Freemasonry, are the foundation of the Illuminatus conspiracy and shot JFK.
I reckon somebody would have noticed a bloke in armour on a horse on the Grassy knoll.
Twin gangsters who operated in East London in the 50s and 60s.
Ronnie and Reggie Kray managed to combine style, fine tailoring, fantastic cars, extreme violence and sodomy in one charming package. Though Al Capone may have been more famous, he was an American and was never photographed by David Bailey.
When the Gentlemen get to Heaven, the Krays will be invited to dinner.
Slang term for lavatory.
Although crapper, long-drop, head, cottage, WC, office and throne are all acceptable, the Raj connotations of 'Khazi', plus the fact that it is usually pronounced in tones redolent of Sid James in 'Carry On Up The Khyber', makes it the preferred term.