Re: 'toerag'

[Phil McRevis <legalize@xmission.com>]

In article <20000210005915.81401.qmail@hotmail.com>,
    "Derick Bhupsingh" <circles01@hotmail.com>  writes:

> Not quite sure where this thread started [...]

If you listen to the Face Dances reissue... on "You Got It In Ya" at
the end Roger says "toe rag" just before the fade out.

Also on the 3 LP Madison Square Garden boot from '79, during Big Boss
Man Pete says "We fuckin' work for you, ya toe rag!"

For 20 years (literally!) I've been listening to that version of BBM
wondering just what the hell Pete was saying.  At first I thought he
was saying "toe rat" or perhaps some other word or phrase that just
happened to sound like "toe rat".  At one point I even wondered if he
had said "T. Rex" but that didn't make any sense.  Of course without
knowing this slang, "toe rag" doesn't make any sense either!

The link I posted has a lot of Cockney rhyming slang words and the
origin of Cockney rhyming slang which is pretty interesting.
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