British Cockney rhyming slang game

[hpdrifter]

I am putting together a bridal shower game on british cockney rhyming slang.

Could you that are in the know post a few sayings here and what they mean? I guess the idea is for the party guests to guess what they mean. I'm not totally clear on how it will pan out in practice but I saw it online and the bride liked it so...

[Freebasser]

Sound the Bugle = Have you looked on Google? (http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/)

[hpdrifter]

I thought those were lame. I figured you guys could give me the cool ones.

[mickill]

And you could also break out the Japanese haiku game when this one starts to get stale.

[Freebasser]

'Sherman Tank' is not lame.

[Bob]

i prefer "sherman tanks"

[Freebasser]

And you could also break out the Japanese haiku game when this one starts to get stale.

Good point there Mickill
Haikus can be fun also
I'm so hard right now

[mickill]

Ha ha ha ha ha
that was a good haiku, man
ha ha ha ha ha

[hpdrifter]

'Sherman Tank' is not lame.

And refers to?

[Guy Incognito]

And refers to?

it refers to having a "j arthur" which is what older people used for rhyming slang for the same thing.

whats not coming across here is that most of the time the whole word that rhymes with whatever isnt used.

i.e fuck this i'm going for a sherman before i go out for a ruby with the trouble. which translates as:

I'm gonna masterbate before going to the indian restraunt with my wife

[rirv]

A good bit of rhyming slang always gives me a good bubble and some phrases are worth a good butchers.

Problem is you can come across like David Brent in real life.

ie

Sooo, what's the bunts?
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...
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Bunts. Bunsen burner. Nice little earner.

[cookiepuss]

huh?:confused:

[mikizee]

Reg grundy's - undies
dog and bone- phone

I know heaps more but can't think of them right now

[Helvete]

Raspberry = Raspberry ripple (cripple)
Whistle = Whistle and flute (suit)
Skin and blister = Sister
Trouble and strife = Wife

[paul jones]

up the gary - up the shitter (gary glitter) although was invented before the policemen looked at his computer hard drive

[hpdrifter]

I don't think it went over very well. The older ladies didn't seem to get it and everyone else just looked slightly bored. But everyone loved loved loved the stupid clothespin game. I hate bridal showers.

[Freebasser]

That's because all cockneys are pricks.

[hpdrifter]

Or because the people at the party were uninspired and unadventurous?

[YoungRemy]

i need some bread and honey

It rhymes this time: Slang used at London ATMs
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
London ATMs go Cockney

LONDON, England (AP) - You'd better get ready to use your loaf if you want to get your hands on some bread.
Over the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang, the area's colourful and often impenetrable dialect.
The origins of Cockney rhyming slang are obscure. It is thought to have been used by market traders who needed a way of communicating without tipping off their customers.
It works by replacing a word with a short rhyming phrase. For example: "Money" becomes "bread and honey," which in turn is shortened to "bread". Similarly, "head" becomes "loaf of bread", and then just simply "loaf".
Few use the slang with any regularity now although most Britons know a few common phrases, such as "trouble and strife" for wife and "apples and pears" for stairs.
ATMs run by a company called Bank Machine offer a language option allowing customers to enter their "Huckleberry Finn" instead of their PIN, and rather worryingly informs them that the machine is reading their "gallbladder of lard" at a prompt about examining their card.
Gabriella Alexander, who made a withdrawal from an ATM, near Spitalfields Market, said the stunt was fun. But she added that withdrawing "sausage and mash" - or cash - "Made me a little uneasy".
Slaney Wright, a 32-year-old charity worker, attempted to withdraw money from the ATM but visibly tensed up when she realised the machine was talking to her in Cockney slang. She immediately cancelled the transaction and ripped the card out of
the machine.
"It looks like someone's been messing with it," she said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_fe_st/eu_odd_britain_rhyming_slang