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Anonymous, 40 days ago
1st and only time I ever saw the phrase was in the "Jiggs and Maggie or Bringing up Father cartoon in Sunday papers. Likely in the 1950's
Anonymous  suggested by Anonymous  +  961802 Wed, 04 Nov 09 09:42 PM
vos rikki dosh..


as far as I can remember, there was a serial comic in the daily newspaper..Maggie and Jiggs.


He suffered  from the gout, always had his leg in bandages, carried a cane...and Maggie was always on his case for being a no-good, corned beef and cabbage eating thorn in her side. 

On the wall of their house was a particular small picture with two characters talking to one another...

One would say "Vos rikki dosh"..

The other would answer " Farno, farno.

What this inane conversation means, in fact, I have no idea..


Hope this helps you out
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Anonymous, 2 days ago 4:18 pm
There was a syndicated comic strip on the US Sunday Newspapers called

"Bringing up Father". It featured a well-to-do couple. A rather ugly woman

with a dapper husband known as Maggie and Jigs. They lived in a rather up-scale

apartment in a large city. Frames that showed the apartment walls had active

pictures. One frame that I remember shows two pictures on the wall with a silly

looking character in each one with one saying to the other "Vosh Ricky Dosh"

and the other replying "Farno Farno".

Anonymous, 2 days ago 5:34 pm
This "old Fart" remembers the Maggie and Jigs pictures but I'm thinking it was

used earlier in Britain as some kind of greeting for an "in" group.

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