On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 12:08:26 PM UTC+1, Ben Finney wrote: > Michael Torrie writes: > > > Umm no, she was actually a witch. Which makes the scene even funnier. > > "Fair caught," she says at the end. > > She says [0] “It's a fair cop”, which is using the term “cop” to mean > the arrest or sentence, asserting that it's justified. > > Hence, the British term “copper”, meaning a police officer: the one who > does the cop (the capture or arrest) for a crime. >
Also used in the Dead Bishop sketch. Klaus: It's a fair cop, but society's to blame. Detective: Agreed. We'll be charging them too. Kindest regards. Mark Lawrence. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
