Date: April 21st, 2018 7:12 PM
Author: Cheese-eating insane indirect expression
it was in the 1981 christmas special for the TV series "Only Fools and Horses." it so surprised me that i took a screenshot and transcribed some dialogue for you guys. the episode is online here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6d5m7w
the show opens with one of the characters reading a book on how to attract women called "Body Language":
https://i.imgur.com/jkuC7Zo.jpg
the premise is that the brothers (the main characters) are spending christmas with their granddad so that he won't be all alone that day. he botches the christmas dinner, and the brothers head off to a club to pick up women. the younger brother ('Rodney') is cautious and anxious, while the older one ('Del') is flashy and confident.
at 21:08, there is this exchange. i've done my best to transcribe it, but i'm not a british english masterman, and i had to look a couple things up, so it might not be 100% accurate:
RODNEY: You're flashy, aren't ya? You think you know the lot, don'tcha? Everything about you is... lairy.
DEL: What do you mean 'lairy'?
RODNEY: Look at the way ya dress, to begin with, eh? I mean, ya make a Christmas tree look somber! And God knows how you got the courage to walk down dark alleys wearin' all that gold. When they see you comin', you must look like a mugger's pension scheme.
DEL: Listen - how'dya think - howd'ya think a PEACOCK attracts a lady peacock, eh? With his PLUMAGE. Right? Well, this is my plumage. You see - when I approach a bird, she doesn't see the real me - the young, good-looking man-about-town, own teeth, and all that sorta game. No, she sees... in her subconscious, a white yacht, floating on the blue waters of a Caribbean bay.
RODNEY: Is that right?
DEL: Yeah. With you, they see a winkle-barge sinkin' off the end of Southend pier.
RODNEY: No - because I don't need all the bullion and perfume 'n the white shoes, 'cause I'm natural. I'm ME, Del; I'm ME.
DEL: Yes, I know you're you, that's why you always end up with a dog.
RODNEY: I don't go out with dogs!
DEL: Leave it off, Rodney, you've had more dogs than Crufts! The other week, grandad took your suit to the cleaners, and found a muzzle in the pocket! No, Rodney, I know the secret; that's why I always blag the good ones.
Notes: "Crufts" is a major English dog show. "Lairy" is an English adjective for flashiness. "Blag" just means "to get," implying perhaps a bit of deception.
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then at 25:21, there is another exchange:
DEL: Listen, what was that silly walk for? Your guts playing ya up again?
RODNEY: It wasn't a silly walk; it was body language! Look; I've got this book on it!
DEL: Body language? I thought you were limpin'!
RODNEY: I was talking to 'em!
DEL: Talking? You were lisping! What was you supposed to be sayin'?
RODNEY: The walk was saying... 'Pelvis'! 'Virility'! It was sayin', now, here comes a man who's got natural masculinity, and maturity.
DEL: Well, from back here it was sayin' 'Here comes a man with his truss on back to front'.
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i was very surprised to see this stuff in a show from 1981.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3956068&forum_id=2#35890508)