The other day at work I called a particularly suspicious individual. I did my best to explain what I was calling about and assured the man of the legitimacy of the call. This man was not having it. Nothing I could say would satisfy him that I was calling from a legitimate company. He then ends the call with this statement: "Sounds like you are cooking a rams horn. We're gonna call the bunco(sp?) squad on you guys. Honestly, who says something like that? I did a little research, seeing as I've never heard that term before, and here is the entry I found on urbandictionary.com:
bunco squad
The bunco squad is those policemen who investigate confidence swindles. In use from the 40's through the 60's. Not usual among law enforcement today.
The original "bunco" was a dishonest gambling game. Perhaps a variant of banco, from Spanish banca, which is a card game similar to "monte".
Eventually the word evolved to mean swindling or fraud of any sort).
So there you have it. I guess it was an applicable term, albeit considerably outdated. Old people say some strange shit.
Now as for the "cooking a rams horn" portion, my quick and lazy searching produced nothing useful to explain what it meant. I guess that one is up for interpretation.
I'm gonna go cook a rams horn and try to avoid the bunco squad. Hope that shit is tasty.
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