Shops selling disparate items

[Amor de Cosmos]

Back on topic (sort of). A few years back my sister got married in Charlottetown, PEI, where the registry office shares the same building as the local lock-up. The marriage was kinda spur-of-the-moment so the happy couple hadn't thought about witnesses. "No problem" said the registrar. He nipped next door and returned with a local constable and an old soak who'd been sleeping off the consequences of the previous night. The wedding pictures are brilliant.

[Jah Womble]

Suddenly the penny drops on what that John Mellencamp song was all about.

John Cougar had a song called Tops and Fingers?

(I'd also add that it's a much ruder expression than 'getting your leg over'. The way to judge is by imagining what would've made it past the script censors in one of those British comedies to which I alluded upthread.)

[Patrick Thistle]

I've had a sheltered life. Can someone explain "tops and fingers" please.

[Stumpy Pepys]

I've had a sheltered life. Can someone explain "tops and fingers" please.

Urban Dictionary is your friend

[Jah Womble]

Viz often used the preceding 'get your...' - which rather betrayed the kind of age-group/mentality that would've used said expression.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Funny you should say that. I know an English bloke in Berlin - I don't like him - whom I saw at the weekend. He told me - I didn't ask - that he not only had a "dolly bird", but a "dolly bird on the go".

He's 68 years old. And he comes from ... Bolton.

Is she English? If so he may well be her "fancy man".

[WOM]

John Cougar had a song called Tops and Fingers?

Natural b-side to Jack and Diane.

[treibeis]

Natural b-side to Jack and Diane.

Jack and Danny, surely?