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andy hughes | 18:23 Thu 14th Feb 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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Why do we say "I'll be a monkey's uncle"?
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I'd always assumed it was a Darwinian sideswipe....certainly the phrase was in use in the Victorian/Edwardian era as Shaw used it.....
10:41 Fri 15th Feb 2002
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It's from Hartlepool I think. They executed a monkey by hanging it because they thought it was a French spy acting as someones long lost uncle. Crazy I know, but true. They did hang a monkey in Hartlepool!
12:55 Thu 21st Feb 2002

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