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09/03/2005 04:04:09 AM · #1 |
In honour of the English contingent of DPC.
Take a picture that illustrates a traditional English Cockney Rhyme.
Example: Apples & Pairs = Stairs
Some popular phrases to get you started:
"Let's have a butchers at that magazine" (butcher's hook = look)
"I haven't heard a dicky bird about it" (dickie bird = word)
"Use your loaf and think next time" (loaf of bread = head)
"Did you half-inch that car?" (half-inch = pinch, meaning steal)
"You will have to speak up, he's a bit mutton" (mutt'n'jeff = deaf)
"I'm going on my tod" (tod sloan = alone, or own)
"Are you telling porkies?" (porkies = pork pies = lies)
"Are you going to rabbit all night?" (rabbit and pork = talk)
"Scarper lads! The police are coming" (scarpa flow = go)
ruby murray = curry
barnet fair = hair
currant bun = sun
hampstead heath = teeth
deep sea diver = fiver (a monetary note)
mince pies = eyes
china plate = mate
pen and ink = stink
septic tank = yank (a person from the U.S.) - No offense meant!
whistle and flute = suit
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09/03/2005 04:23:42 AM · #2 |
i think this would be MUCH fun! great idea!
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09/03/2005 04:49:22 AM · #3 |
| Good idea, it does mean that most Brits would need to learn a new language too, including yorkshire me. |
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09/03/2005 04:57:35 AM · #4 |
Great idea! What scares me is the number of those words/phrases that are in general use rather than just confined to the Cockneys... loaf, half-inch, tod, porkies, rabbit, scarper, and so on! I guess I need to get outta London ;o)
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09/03/2005 05:01:40 AM · #5 |
So what's the challenge? What are we illustrating? Is the title "Apples & Pears" and the picture of a stairway? Or is the title "Stairs" and the picture of apples and pears? Or what?
And how do you photograph a dicky-bird anyway? (grin)
Robt.
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09/03/2005 06:03:35 AM · #6 |
Gloria Gaynor's (trainers)
Georgie Best (vest)
Pavarotti (tenner - £10)
Scuba Diver (fiver - £5)
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09/03/2005 06:20:37 AM · #7 |
Well I kind of thought that it could be creatively juxtaposing the elements of the rhyme with the item referred to... e.g.
Apples and Pairs arranged on some stairs
or
Brown Bread next to a Gravestone....
or
An American gentleman standing next to a Sceptic Tank! :-)
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09/03/2005 06:27:18 AM · #8 |
FYI, I've added this suggestion to the challenge database, so there's a possibility that it might turn up one of these days ;o)
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09/03/2005 06:30:39 AM · #9 |
Can't wait to see the entry for 'Tomtit'!!
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09/03/2005 07:15:56 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Manic:
FYI, I've added this suggestion to the challenge database, so there's a possibility that it might turn up one of these days ;o) |
Thanks Manic, me ol' china!
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09/03/2005 07:33:38 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Falc:
Can't wait to see the entry for 'Tomtit'!! |
Or a 'Gypsies Kiss'
or a 'Pony & Trap'
:-)
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09/03/2005 09:55:13 AM · #12 |
| Good grief. It sounds like Cockney would have worked as well as Navajo did in WWII as a coding system to keep messages from the Germans! |
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09/03/2005 10:28:35 AM · #13 |
chevy chase-face
it reminds me of Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. |
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09/03/2005 10:33:31 AM · #14 |
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09/03/2005 10:56:25 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by Manic:
FYI, I've added this suggestion to the challenge database, so there's a possibility that it might turn up one of these days ;o) |
Which basically means, all non-english speakers are automatically out.
Then about half of english speakers who just don't know their language.
Or in other words - a challenge for 10 people. Woo hoo... so much fun.
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09/03/2005 11:11:41 AM · #16 |
"Got to my mickey, found me way up the apples, put on me whistle and the bloody dog went. It was me trouble telling me to fetch the teapots."
After reading this Cockney Rhyming Slang dictionary it makes a little more sense...
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09/03/2005 11:33:25 AM · #17 |
Is there a cockney-to-english-to-turkish translation dictionary or thesaurus somewhere out there for those of us less creative linguistically..:) I bet you Redhouse or Collins didn't think of that one..LOL...I guess I had better be catching up with the Eastenders Omnibus on Sunday BBC Prime :)maybe Alphie or Kat can help me out:):)
Seriously I think its a great idea.. AND WOULD BE LOTS OF FUN..if we can't manage we always have pixelstate to ask for help...Watch a non-brit win this one LOL...
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09/03/2005 12:02:19 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Pixelstate:
Brown Bread next to a Gravestone....
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I've even heard 'Hovis' used for dead. Hovis > Brown BREAD > Dead
Also my mother uses 'Plates' (plates of MEAT) > feet |
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09/03/2005 12:05:39 PM · #19 |
This would be an amazing catagorie!
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09/03/2005 12:07:39 PM · #20 |
I would enter it, but I'm cream crackered!!
Steve |
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09/04/2005 03:44:41 AM · #21 |
Originally posted by yasemina:
...Watch a non-brit win this one LOL... |
Sorry yasemina but there is no way that a 'septic' is gonna win this one!
LOL
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09/04/2005 03:49:24 AM · #22 |
Trouble and Strife is David Bailey's Book of Nudes Of then Wife Maria Helven so I think he has that tied up.
Message edited by author 2005-09-04 03:52:45.
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09/04/2005 05:59:19 AM · #23 |
Originally posted by Pixelstate:
Originally posted by yasemina:
...Watch a non-brit win this one LOL... |
Sorry yasemina but there is no way that a 'septic' is gonna win this one!
LOL |
Bloody Limey thinks ees seen more Guy Richie movies then we av! Berk! |
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09/04/2005 07:33:13 AM · #24 |
If only "Richard the Third" was still around...
EDIT
Actually the origin of "Berk" is from cockney rhyming slang. Many moons ago, when they used to call someone a "berkshire hunt"... :D
Message edited by author 2005-09-04 07:43:06. |
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