Help On Some Mal Lingo

POSTED BY: Jongsstraw
UPDATED: Monday, March 10, 2008 06:59
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WALKDOGGER

Friday, October 12, 2007 7:02 PM

I found this link, but I don't know if it's connected to the line Mal says.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=236&letter=R

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JADEHAND

Friday, October 12, 2007 11:24 PM

My thought was he meant it in this context, although he was being sarcastic, as it seemed Fanty and Mingo were disparaging his crew, or at least making little jabs.

rube
\ˈrüb\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Rube, nickname for Reuben
Date:
1891

1 : an awkward unsophisticated person : rustic
2 : a naive or inexperienced person

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ROGUESCHOLAR

Thursday, November 8, 2007 5:16 PM

The line "a fine bunch of reubens" is likely a quote from a song called "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway", from the George Cohan musical by the same name. At any rate, it is an identical phrase.

In the song, "reubens" seems to be a shortened version of "rustic reubens", a slang term for farmers/country folk.

Of course, since the song was written around 1905, and Mal is speaking more than six hundred years later, the meaning of the line may have changed somewhat.

My two cents.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, March 10, 2008 6:59 AM

Just saw the film "The Bank Job" at the cinema.
Based on a true story, placed in London in 1971. Jason Statham character says they are going to "suss it out" meaning they will check out the bank, case it.
It was a good movie, also. Maybe the best one in the theaters currently.

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