Tom the Cop has moved to London.....

[Tom the Cop]

London, Kentucky. that is. I'm still working for the same agency, but I was offered this promotion and it puts me closer to my daughter. Hopefully, I'll still be able to take a trip to New York once in a while.

[A.J.]

If it was the REAL London, I was going to rename you "Tom The Bobby" or "Tom The Constable".

[midwestjeff]

Make sure to check out Big Ben. He'll be sitting at the end of the bar, shirtless in a pair of overalls. A true sight to see.

[Don Stugots]

Tom, best of luck to you. I have a few friends in that area.

[hereintheUK]

I thought you'd joined the old bill. I started to get the shakes.

[bobrobot]

Now you'll DEFINITELY fall asleep driving back from NY, HA HA HA!!!

That's really cool, you'll be closer to yer daughter!!!

Say "HI" to Ken & Laura Ratcliff of Silver Angel Mandolins, Elliottville, KY!!! They built the "Pope Bobo, Baby, #1" mandolin for me!!! Kentucky is the birthplace of the original U.S.A. mandolin music which eventually came to be called "Bluegrass," Thx 2 Bill Monroe...
ENJOY!!!

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Didja know that the origin of "COP," is "Constable On Patrol?"

[FUNKMAN]

that city must have been calling you

[Sue_Bender]

Didja know that the origin of "COP," is "Constable On Patrol?"







"Wiki Bobo" never ceases to amaze! :thumbup:

[ChrisTheCop]

See Yuh at the TheCop Family reunions!



Best of luck brother.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

God Bless. You're a real nice guy, I enjoyed our little chat outside bar 9 awhile back. Sorry to see ya go, but glad you're closer to your daughter! I look forward to seeing you in NYC again when you're able to be there. Best of luck.

[A.J.]

that city must have been calling you

Bravo Sir.

[PanterA]

be careful of the werewolf and what ever you do, stay off the bridge.

[Tom the Cop]

I've also heard that the term "cop" is short for copper because of the copper buttons on the uniforms. But as I recall, from college, it comes from the slang verb cop which showed up around 1700, and meant "to get ahold of, catch, capture." By 1844, cop showed up in print, and soon thereafter the -er suffix was added, and a policeman became a copper, one who cops or catches and arrests criminals. Copper first appeared in print in 1846, the use of cop as a short form copper occured in 1859.

[bobrobot]

Hmmm... I just read this online...

"Cop" as a slang term for "police officer" is neither a shortening of "constable on patrol" nor of "citizen on patrol." We've said it before, but it bears saying again: only a few
common words truly have acronymic pedigrees, and virtually all of those date from the 20th century and later. Though terms that have been part of the English language for centuries may well have fascinating backstories (and many do), they rarely began their linguistic lives as acronyms, words formed by combining the initial letter(s) of a compound term or phrase.

The word 'cop' also did not enter the slang lexicon as an allusion to the highly polished buttons (which some say were made of copper) on American turn-of-the-century police uniforms or on those worn by the first London police force of the 1820s. It also doesn't refer to the metal various police badges or shields were made from.

Instead, the police-specific use of "cop" made its way into the English language in far more languid fashion. "Cop" has long existed as a verb meaning "to take or seize," but it didn't begin to make the linguistic shifts necessary to turn it into a casual term for "police officer" until the mid-19th century. The first example of 'cop' taking the meaning "to arrest" appeared in 1844, and the word then swiftly moved from being solely a verb for "take into police custody" to also encompassing a noun referring to the one doing the detaining. By 1846, policemen were being described as "coppers," the '-er' ending having been appended to the "arrest" form of the verb, and by 1859 "coppers" were also being called "cops," the latter word a shortening of the former.



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From now on, I'm gonna call ya "Tom the Bobby!!!"

[Tom the Cop]

Those guys bear a striking resemblance to the local around here