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Good Reads Giveaway...

2/28/2017

 
Hard to Protect, Book 3 in the Hard to... and Black Ops Heroes series, (releasing March 20th) is featured in a giveaway on Goodreads. Woot!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Hard to Protect by Incy Black

Hard to Protect

by Incy Black

Giveaway ends March 20, 2017.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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Now what does that mean?

2/12/2017

 
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Might be English, the words all familiar, but can you translate this sentence so it makes sense?
 
"It nearly knocked me off my plates—he was wearing a syrup! So I ran up the apples, got straight on the dog to my trouble and said I couldn't believe me mincers."
 
No clue as to what in the hell that means? You would not be alone. It’s London Cockney Rhyming Slang. Colourful but damn near impenetrable, because rhyme and foreshortening get in on the act. Here’s how it translates:
 
“It nearly knocked me off my feet—he was wearing a wig! So I ran up the stairs, got straight on the phone to my wife and said I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
 
Plates = plates of meat = feet
Syrup = syrup of figs = wig
Apples = apple and pears = stairs
Dog = dog and bone = phone
Trouble = trouble and strife = wife
Mincers = mince pies = eyes
 
So, to help out those travelling to London and wishing to avoid a ‘barney’ (Barney Rubble = trouble, as in fight), I’ve provided a short list of some common rhyming slang phrases to help you out. Enjoy…
 
Brahms and Liszt = pissed (drunk)
Brown bread = dead
Adam and Eve = believe
Boat = Boat Race = face
Bottle and glass = arse
Bubble Bath = laugh (as in, ‘having a bubble’)
Butcher’s hook = look ( as in, ‘having a butcher’s)
Half inch = to pinch (to steal)
Gypsy’s kiss = to piss
Vera Lynn = gin
Tommy tit = shit (as in, I don’t give a Tommy tit)
 
Actually, these guys say it better: (Note the credits at the end please).  There, now you can travel with some confidence.
Have a favourite phrase you want to share? Add to comments....

Funny old world we live in...

2/1/2017

 
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​My five kids are the stuff of nightmares, their favorite game: Who would you save? It’s not pleasant. I have to decide which of them gets to live or die if, say, they were all drowning simultaneously or, thanks to The Walking Dead, which one of them I’d rescue during the zombie apocalypse.
 
My stock answer ‘All of you’ (damn their sibling rivalry), breaks the rules, but I don’t care, it’s a horrible game. Though it did seed the idea for my third book Hard to Protect, releasing March 13th via Entangled Publishing, the research leading me an anxious dance through the subject of hysterical/superhuman strength, berserkers and the phrase ‘going postal’.    
 
Anxious dance, because here are just three of the weird and wonderful facts I uncovered:

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SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH

In 2006, Lydia Angiyou, a slight woman saved several children, including her young son, by wrestling an eight-foot, 700lb polar bear. A mother’s love, or adrenalin? Who knows, who cares—it ended well for Lydia and the children, but not so well for the bear (about which I am sorry—tranquillizer guns before rifles might be the way forward in this gun toting world of ours).  

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BERSERKING

To go berserk (lovely word) means entering a state of wild and intense fury. It applied to warriors of old who, on the battlefield, were given a wide berth because they tended to cut down any in their path without discriminating between friend or foe. These berserkers, thankfully, were easily identifiable, because as well as howling like animals and chowing-down on their own shields, they wore wolf or bear furs. This bear-warrior symbolism survives today in the form of the high bearskin hats worn by the guards of the Danish and British monarchs.


​'GOING POSTAL'

The slang phrase ‘going postal’ refers to an extreme state of uncontrollable anger to the point of violence, The explosion usually occurring in the workplace. It derives from a series of shooting incidents (20) between1986-1997 during which 40 people died, and all of which involved employees of the US Postal Service. The 1995 film Clueless supposedly popularized the phrase ‘going postal’ and is responsible for is casual usage today.  



So, there you have it. Three potentially useless facts which might just give you an advantage when you’re next playing Trivial Pursuit or watching some quiz show. And no, the life of a romance writer is not all about the love, there’s an fearful amount of the sinister involved too.  


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