From: Steve Ewing 

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 23:53:28 +1300, Don Hills  wrote:

> Don't know. I haven't seen the clip so I can't help. I've seen the advert
> many times, of course. As a result of it the word has entered our
> lexicon,
> in the way that "Yeah right", "Doh!" and
"Not." entered yours. It simply
> struck a chord in the national payche - and the national funny-bone as
> well.

In the "Rumpole of the Bailey" series of stories, one of
Rumpole's old chestnuts is a judge who asked a prisoner if he had anything
to say before sentence of death was pronounced upon him.  The prisoner
muttered, "Bugger all."  The judge asked the clerk, "Did the
prisoner say something?"  The clerk replied, "He said, 'Bugger
all,' my lord."  "That's funny," mused the judge.  "I
thought I heard him *say* something."

I've tried to translate that into American English, but we don't have a
phrase that carries such a double connotation.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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