Comments on: Cabbie Phrasebook

By: Marty Mccravy

Marty Mccravy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:19:16 +0000

Hi I found your site when i was searching yahoo for this

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:11:52 +0000

Hi Richard, what about the the phrase on a roller, when getting one job after the other. But pretty rare these days.

Love your site.

By: Britt

Britt — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:20:34 +0000

For your information:
An old term for “cab” in Sweden is “droska” – a bit like the Jewish term you mention. Must be a Russian word originally.

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By: chris

chris — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:28:01 +0000

Great blog, great snaps, really enjoy it all……

One thing, your “brushing” is usually known as “brooming” (or “brooming off”) in my experience, and the PCO is often called “the Yard”….. and what about that old favourite “sherbet” (for cab) …..err, that’s enough of this nonsense for one day!

Be lucky (!)

Chris

By: that chick | from bk

that chick | from bk — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:42:46 +0000

my dad is a nyc cabbie. i wonder if they have similiar lingo. i shall now ask.

By: The Mash

The Mash — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:42:18 +0000

The Book Of Dave is not about cabbies, it’s about a cabbie. But then it’s not really about a cabbie to tell the truth. It’s a bit more complicated than that. I would refer you to A Canticle for Leibowitz by W.M Miller and Russell Hoben’s Riddley Walker. Riddley Walker is brilliant. Unfortunately it’s got nothing to do with cabbies. More to do with post apocalyptic Kent, aka the khazi of England.

By: rjcudlip

rjcudlip — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:48:01 +0000

Ah yes, the good old “standard” punter questions to kick start the conversation. Other fav in London is “How long did it take you to ‘get’ the knowledge?” or “I hear that knowledge thing is well hard to do”. Good old general public.

I haven’t read ‘the book of dave’ but really should, I like Will Self and have read a couple of his others. I’m just worried it might wind me up a bit.

Hope all is well out in the sticks.

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:34:23 +0000

Now my brother’s a cabbie (Bristol) and he has a couple of gems you might like to add here (along the lines of what not to say to a cab driver – might fall into same category as the ‘be lucky’ entry)…
In order of my preference (related to the level of annoyance I can engender when ringing him at work):
1) Been busy tonight?
2) What time do you knock off? (apparently that’s a question one cabbie can ask another but no-one else is allowed to ask?)
3) Have you seen that Peter Kay sketch about cabbies etc…?

Also, on another note, have you read Will Self’s ‘The book of Dave’?

Hope all well in the big smoke

Kirsty

By: AdamB

AdamB — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:51:14 +0000

Love this.