Not on your Nelly!

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What or who is Nelly?

[Octavius]

Apparently Nellie Duff...

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/nellie.htm

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Thank you for that Octavius - I'm just printing that page off now!

I've never thought about the meaning of it until I posted it in a reply on here today. What would we do without AB & Google!

[Artful]

See also: http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/20/messages/106.html

and another link where at the end they talk about the song "Nelly the Elephant":

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/20/messages/181.html

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Thank yo for those Artful - just what I'm looking for too. :o)

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*you!

[kev100]

It's also the name give to the Fulmar (a seabird) down under it's known as a nelly.

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Thank you Kev, I never knew that - you learn something new every day on here!

[silly moo]

Any quizmailers reading this take note !!!

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LOL silly moo!

[silly moo]

After all the hullaballoo recently soon none of us will admit to being a quizmailer !

[Chillum]

Nelly* - also the wife of Noah, in the seventies children series "Noah & Nelly" ...All aboard the Skylark!

* not sure if this is biblically accurate.

[Artful]

Surely Chillum that should read "All aboard the Nelly (aka Fulmar)".

Sorry,folks...