Who thinks this is dodgy?

As it is used in the Godspell lyrics, I think it pre-dates that.

 

Godspell is a sixties/seventies thing? I thought the sus law was
forties/fifties?

 

Oh. I thought it came in sometime in he late 1970s/early 1980s. You've
got me wondering now.

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http://www.igtc.com/pipermail/thewho/2005-February/004238.html

http://www.word-detective.com/102502.html

And it was "Tommy", not "Godspell". My error. But basically, it doesn't
have its origin in the sus law, no.

 

...but does have its origin in 1950s police slang. Which explains why I'd
made that particular connection.

None of the explanations I saw had the schoolboy meaning which was
essentially to have caught someone out lying.

 

Oh. I never heard that interpretation before.

Different schools, I guess ;-)

 

Yeah. I had a 400N, and buzzy it was. Quite nasty high-frequency vibes
that the balancer shafts never quite cancelled out. The 250N was much
smoother. And the XS vibes were more low-frequency stuff.

 

Andy Wegg wrote

If it is any help with age "sussed" (as in suspected, or discovered) is
in my vocabulary from way back in my childhood, so you can safely say it
was in common usage (without the help of TV to make it popular) 50 years
ago.

 

Different eras. I think you'll find.

 

Chambers seems to tie them all together.

sus, (slang) noun: a suspect; suspicion; suspicious behaviour,
eg loitering with intent.
verb intransitive: (slang) to arrest for suspicious behaviour
sussed: past tense and past participle.
Also suss.
sus laws or suss laws: laws allowing a person to be arrested on suspicion of
having committed a crime.
sus out or suss out: (slang) to investigate; to find out, discover.

ORIGIN: suspect or suspicion

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I'm thinking two things here. First, nice-looking bike. Second, I'm
itching to attack the cases with wire wool and a splash of diesel. Sad or
what?

 

I tried with little success, they were very pitted.

Here's the before pictures:
http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/yamaha/photos/IM000313.html

 

Yes. That's fucking awful.

 

I found exactly the same. My opinion at the time was the 250, being a
gutless version of the 400, was quite unable to lug the dead weight
around. Personally, the 400 was a much better hack, but that was when
new and only around town. The passage of time has sorted all of them
out, both 250s and 400s, and thankfully most of them have hit the skip
somewhere along the road.

 

I always took it to mean "My suspicions are confirmed", and the
relevance to the SUS law or anything else was either co-incidental or
happenstance.

Got you sussed, mate, in other words.

 

It was free.

 

Thus spake The Older Gentleman () unto the assembled multitudes:

"Lazy Sunday Afternoon" by the Small Faces (1967?) contains the line
"Sing in the karzie while you suss out the moon"
so presumably it had been in use for some time before that.

 

I sort of remember. Not worth doing a full nut-and-bolt resto on a nold
XS400 anyway.

 

It was all I could do to bring myself to slop some degreaser about.

 

I suppose it beats ripping a tissue. Did any of it go near the bike?