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# I think you may have made that up.
'Shit, leg it! It's the babylonians!'? Some weird biblical connotation?
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:52, archived)
# Nonononono
It was originally a Rastafarian saying, as in "inna Babylon", but came to be used by hippies and other such human waste to mean the forces of law and order.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:54, archived)
# does anybody know
why the cops are referred to as "the old bill"?
(I helped save b3ta! VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:55, archived)
# No but
i do know that my great great great great great great grandfather, Sir Robert Peel, invented the police, hence the name "Bobbies"
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:56, archived)
# the full explanation is here
www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-bil1.htm
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:02, archived)
# explains why in ireland in the 19th century
we called em peelers
(I helped save b3ta! WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:12, archived)
# you must die copper decendant!!!
:7
(I helped save b3ta! Sixola, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:13, archived)
# Or why they are called "cops"?
Or "rozzers"?
Or anything other than "Members of Her Majesty's Constabulary"? Actually, nevermind, the government will probably do away with any references to the crown...

Hehe, "members"!
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:58, archived)
# cops short for coppers
from the latin "capper" (or is it "cappre") meaning "to capture"

Rozzer, from Robert (metropolitan police force founded by robert peel) in the same way that baz comes from barry or barney and whatnot
(I helped save b3ta! VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:02, archived)
# go to quinion.com - every term is explained there
(see above)
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:03, archived)
# I'm rather impressed by all this.
Well done, all of you.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:04, archived)
# *stroke chin*
Hmm, yes, do go on...

;)
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:56, archived)
# really ffs
i can't believe no-one else knows cops as babylon.
Everyone knew that back in my hippy days.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:57, archived)
# Heh!
Fucking hippies!
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 14:59, archived)
# I thought hippes called them
The Fuzz
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:12, archived)
# It's hard to speak
with a DM between your teeth...
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:17, archived)
# Plus
anyone who played to the end of the first GTA would know.

Which should be more.
(Klumaster loves teh taser, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:08, archived)
# Really?
I gave up at the point where I had to drive a limo into some gangsters mansion and then got rather excessively killed.
Still, can't see "babylon" catching on as a term for the fuzz (although, "picked up by the babylons" has an amusing ring to it...).
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:15, archived)
# I think it's more a general term
for the forces of an oppressive white society. There was a link to that online dictionary-wiki-thing, about rastafarianism, but I don't remember what it was. Also, it may have been on a different message board.

Edit: The trick is to reverse it hard the moment you hit the checkpoint.
Edit2: No, wait, that's the abortion clinic limo one. I think I just got out and ran like fuck for the other one, but I don't remember it too well. What city was it?
(Klumaster loves teh taser, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:19, archived)
# Edit:
I've no idea which city. Nevermind, but thanks anyway!

I think I was still on my first ever game, my brother was quite annoyed as I was spoiling it for him (it was his copy). I had to stop as my eyeballs had dried out and, strangely, I haven't played it since (well, I have, but the maps have been lost, so I gave up again).
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 3 Mar 2004, 15:24, archived)