Who or what said this:

"It's crackers to slip the rozzer dropsey insnide"

I don't understand it 🙁
Was it Grampy Bobby?

'It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide' is good advice

Originally posted by sonhouse
"It's crackers to slip the rozzer dropsey insnide"

"it's crackers " ..Meaning "stupid ,idiotic ,daft etc"
"Rozzer"... A British term for a "cop,policeman "
"Dropsey"...To give a " backhander ,Bribe ...etc"
I would say its probably a "cockney " and i am going for ...."Lockstock and four smoking barrells "....?

Originally posted by phil3000
"it's crackers " ..Meaning "stupid ,idiotic ,daft etc"
"Rozzer"... A British term for a "cop,policeman "
"Dropsey"...To give a " backhander ,Bribe ...etc"
I would say its probably a "cockney " and i am going for ...."Lockstock and four smoking barrells "....?

snide is funny money

dont think its Lockstock ... rozzer is very old-fashioned slang

And a little research suggests that this is a MAD question.

Originally posted by sonhouse
"It's crackers to slip the rozzer dropsey insnide"

But a little more research reveals that:

Magersfontein Lugg is a fictional character in the Albert Campion novels, written by Margery Allingham (1904-1966). Lugg, in The Fashion in Shrouds (originally published in 1938), is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide". Mad Magazine just hijacked it.

Originally posted by MrPhil
'It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide' is good advice

Ah. I only got as far as the MAD quote. Apparently they had a lot of letters asking for more on this phrase, and the above was their printed reply.

Phil.

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
But a little more research reveals that:

Magersfontein Lugg is a fictional character in the Albert Campion novels, written by Margery Allingham (1904-1966). Lugg, in The Fashion in Shrouds (originally published in 1938), is the originator of the curious sentence, "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide". Mad Magazine just hijacked it.

Well said!

Here is another: Where did this come from?:

"There's an alligator on the zipper"

Originally posted by sonhouse
Well said!

Here is another: Where did this come from?:

"There's an alligator on the zipper"

alligator=a piece of rubber from a tire you often see on roadways (often a piece of tread looking like an alligator's back)

zipper=the white dashed line down the middle of some roads

CB slang

Originally posted by Suzianne
alligator=a piece of rubber from a tire you often see on roadways (often a piece of tread looking like an alligator's back)

zipper=the white dashed line down the middle of some roads

CB slang

Very good! I heard that one time actually on a CB, I had a kind of 500 mile commute a few years ago to Toledo, Ohio and that's where I came across that saying. It would be interesting to find out who invented it.

There was actually a movie by the same name!

http://www.alligatoronthezipper.com/