[AnAmericanMother]

Since last Saturday's attack, his friends tell him that women have been asking to be introduced to him. His cell phone is jammed with messages. He's puzzled as to why people are so taken with his story. "I haven't a Scooby," he says, meaning he doesn't have a clue.

I see Cockney rhyming slang has hit Gleska - "Scooby" = "Scooby Doo" rhymes with "clue".

Love this poem that the WSJ reprints in its entirety:

Twas doon by the inch o' Abbots
Oor Johnny walked one day
When he saw a sicht that troubled him
Far more than he could say...
"Now that's no richt wur!"
Johnny cried
And sallied tae the fray
A left hook and a heid butt
Required tae save the day.
Now listen up Bin Laden
Yir sort's nae wanted here
For imported English radicals
Us Scoatsman huv nae fear

[johnny7]

LOL...

[dblshot]

Too bad a bus load of Scot soccer rowdies wasn’t headed out for a match somewhere. There’d a been a bit more than a proprer asskicking. Of course with the jihadist on fire there’s not much time to getinto the spirit of the thing.

[SuziQ]

LOL!! Who wrote that poem?

The first time I ever heard of Cockney rhyming slang was when I read the Dick Francis novel, "Driving Force". Highly amusing, and requires thought to get to the meaning sometimes.