Any rags? Any bones? Any bottles today?

Answer 1

"Horse Feathers" (1932)

Answer 2

"Any rags, any bones, any bottles today?" is the traditional call of the English rag and bone man/men, going back centuries. They would wheel their carts and barrows through the town calling, "Any rags, any bones, any bottles today?" They were not selling, they were buying or bartering for rags, bones and bottles. The rags would be sold to make paper in the days before the widespread use of wood pulp in paper manufacture. The bones would be ground into bone meal for the manufacture of glass and other products including fertilizer. The bottles would be reused or broken up by glaziers to make new glass products. The rag-and-bone men eventually expanded into handling all kinds of discarded items although the name persisted. The equivalent term in the U.S. is junkman or junk dealer. One of the BBC s most famous television sitcoms in the 1960s was "Steptoe and Son," about a father-and-son team of struggling rag-and-bone men. The cranky, irascible elder Steptoe was played by Wilfrid Brambell, who is probably best known to American viewers as Paul McCartney s grandfather in the first Beatles film "A Hard Day s Night," in which Brambell s character was very much like Alfred Steptoe. Norman Lear adapted the BBC series in the United States as "Sanford and Son" in which the characters and the community they lived in were African-American. It was the second series Lear adapted from a BBC sitcom, the first being "All In The Family," which was adapted from the classic BBC series "Till Death Do Us Part."

Answer 3

Yes, I have a stockpile of them...apart from the bones. Please don't give me a goldfish in return, my tank is over-crowded. Just reminded me of the time my 4 year old nephew heard the rag and bone man calling, and riding down the road on his horse and cart. Gary came home minus his new coat...but the proud owner of a red balloon ! We got it back

Answer 4

"A fool there was and he made his prayer,
Even as you and I,
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair,
We called her the woman who did not care,
But the fool, he called her his lady fair,
Even as you and I."

Rudyard Kipling

Answer 5

Huh?

Answer 6

what are you talking about do you even know what you are talking about