Our PM's a dustman, 'E wears a dustman's 'at, 'E wears gorblimey trousers.
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I tightened the belt on my gorblimey trousers, and stoned some crows, all the better to fit in.
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Did he see me as a harmless old buffer in a gorblimey hat, tottering on the brink of certifiable senility?
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Jesus is the gravitas among the gorblimey, dispensing amiable aphorisms and potted parables to the multitude while the multitude responds with funny noises.
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Phil Daniels compered from an armchair, and his gorblimey shtick found an echo in the Blockheads' Chaz Jankel and Derek Hussey's revisit of Billericay Dickie.
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But I could never get over the fact he looked that smart but spoke gorblimey Cockney with an accent you could cut with a knife.
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Just a small example of the kind of dirty tricks they will face as they rub shoulders with the great and the gorblimey of the game.
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Jessie played Candy, a gorblimey Cockernee single mum from a council estate fighting to get her unnaturally gifted son Kyle into a decent school rather than the local dump.
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There they all are: the MySpace-promoted singer-songwriters, the bands big on choppy, ska-influenced guitars and the kind of gorblimey accents you suspect only an expensive education can buy.
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With no songwriting as powerful as Great DJ or That's Not My Name to hold you, attention gets drawn to their flaws, not least White's agonizing habit of dropping into Estuary-accented gorblimey.
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At this point he changed his professional surname to Windsor-Smith, adding his mother's surname to his own, and began to pursue a career in fine art. Granted residential status in the United States in 1974, Windsor-Smith, along with his partner Linda Lessman, set up Gorblimey Press, through which he released a small number of limited-edition prints of fantasy-based subjects that proved popular. In 1976 Windsor-Smith published The Gorblimey Press Catalogue, a high quality index to the work published by Gorblimey Press, with full-page reproductions of each piece. Prior to that, in 1975, together with Jeff Jones, Michael Kaluta, and Bernie Wrightson, he was one of four comic book artists-turned-fine- illustrator/painters who formed a small artist's loft commune in Manhattan known as The Studio, with the aim of pursuing creative products outside the constraints of comic book commercialism.
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The song was written by Lonnie Donegan, Peter Buchanan (Donegan's manager between 1956 and 1962), and Beverly Thorn; Thorn was not credited on the original release. According to his autobiography, Beverley Thorn was a pseudonym of Leslie Bricusse, the songwriter who wrote hit shows with Anthony Newley. It probably has its origins in "My Father Was a Fireman", a song sung by British World War I troops. The two songs share a lyrical similarity in their reference to "gorblimey trousers".
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Headgear was initially a forage cap without a peak, similar to those worn by the German Army; it was known as the "Brodrick cap", named after St John Brodrick, the Secretary of State for War. This proved to be unpopular and was replaced in 1905 by the now familiar peaked cap; however, the Brodrick cap was retained by the Royal Marines until 1930. In late 1914, the Winter Service Dress Cap was introduced; it had a soft peak and crown with woollen ear flaps that could be buttoned together over the top. It was commonly known as the "Gorblimey" cap, allegedly from the expletive uttered by sergeant majors when they first saw them.
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