Have heard the expression "Love a duck" but not the latter piece! The only thing we could find on this is: It is an exclamation in the "boy, oh, boy" or "wowee" vein. I have no idea as to it's derivation. There was a 1966 or so film starring Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Ruth Gordon and Harvey Korman named "Lord Love A Duck", a way out off-beat comedy that lampooned the 60s Southern California teen culture. Is it - or can it be - positive, negative, or neutral? I've always heard it as mild amazement, expressing much the same sentiment as "well now I've seen everything," or "imagine that!" Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Palmer" <brian@palmer153.fsnet.co.uk> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: [HantsLife] More sayings Hi Listers My dear late mother use to say "Well love a duck and stab a blinking policeman" I have never heard anyone else use it and never thought of asking her what it meant. Regards Brian P Fair Oak ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== Chris and Caroline Hayles, Eastleigh, Hampshire List Administrators: HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Home of SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages EMAIL: chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk FAMILY WEBSITE: http://www.chayles.freeserve.co.uk Over 1,600 villages in HAMPSHIRE, BERKSHIRE, DORSET ISLE OF WIGHT, SURREY, WEST SUSSEX,and WILTSHIRE village history,parish church history, village photographs, and other useful information for genealogy. Lots of links to other useful sites ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003