Ay up me duck of the Dead from steve best on Vimeo.
Just found this little short film called “Ay Up Me Duck of the Dead” now I’m not British so I can only assume that “Ay Up Me Duck” is British slang for something… After watching this film I’m guessing it’s slang for “Abandoning the only living Female to be devoured by zombies and running away like a cowardly little girly man.” Because that guy ends up doing that a lot. (Dude, what is your problem, when the zompocalypse comes it is your job to protect the females…. or the human race is dead, dummy.)
That’s just a theory though. If your British feel free to tell me I’m dumb and give me the real meaning of that phrase.
Synopsis of this short film, “Ay Up Me Duck of the Dead.”
Waking up in the street after a heavy night on the town, Johnny makes his way to work, unaware that he is alone in the city. Barbara waits for a bus that never appears, deciding to walk to work through deserted streets and dark alleyways.A chance meeting between the two survivors is just the beginning of their worst nightmares.
Ay up me duck is slang in the East Midlands of the UK (EG Nottingham) for Hello.
Sure I’m just a silly American, but after this video I’m pretty sure you MUST be mistaken. “Ay up me duck,” clearly means “Abandon the pretty blond woman, and run like a Girly Man”
On the plus side he gets his just deserts in the end though.
Seriously though, that’s what that means? That’s four words just to say Hello… Madness.
Makes the same sense as “See you later, alligator” but yeah, basically a hello, what’s up. The blond looks like one of the secretaries on Green Wing, but don’t think it was her.
Well “See you later alligator” makes perfect sense due the the incredibly high amount of alligators disguised as humans in our local work force.
Originally that phrase was meant as a trick to expose alligators and discriminate against them when they revealed themselves by answering.
However this behavior has thankfully stopped what with new equal rights laws protecting alligators and granting them all the same rights and privileges as other citizens.
Don’t you love finding out where words come from? (Also I may have had too much caffeine this morning.)
‘Ay up me duck’ is more of a greeting i guess, like “Hi how are you today” or “Hello, what’s up”. The UK has loads of greetings like this and people associate certain areas of Britain with them.
I had a English teacher for Chemistry. Told me he had a saying, “I’ll come Knock you up” which I guess in the UK basically means I’ll come wake you up in the morning.
He told me he said that to some women when he moved to the States and got slapped. Apparently they weren’t keen on the idea of him “impregnating them.”
It’s interesting how languages diverge.
Ay up me Duck! or Hey up me duck, is as others have said a greeting used in the Midlands. Normally you’d just say ‘Hey up’ to say hello. You can also call someone ‘Duck’ in general.
Y’all right Duck? Got a brew on?
See I love stuff like this, where did this slang come from? Why “up me duck?”
See my brain can’t stop picturing that this phrase came from a quite English village where humans and ducks have learned to live in harmony and they are very polite when they greet each other in the morning… also they really like tea.