Attention Attention!!!!!!
With an air of some presumable proficiency
this topic was mentioned in another post....pray tell, oh one that would tell(unless he didn't ) and unfortunately would bear skepticism if he did......
What then , please as many examples as possible,is this Cockney rhyming slang?
Don't worry, we no longer kill the messenger,
usually.

Bottle = Aristotle
Pub = Nuclear Sub
Kids = Tin Lids
Sauce = Dead Horse
Jam Roll = Arsehole

what does it mean to "have a butcher's?'

Anchors are called newsreaders in England

have a butchers= have a butchers hook = have a look

basically in CRS the last word in the phrase rhymes with the word it means. It gets more complicated, because as in the phrase above, sometimes the last word is missed off..

more examples,

apples and pears-stairs
half-inch= pinch=steal

I guess you have to live in england for a while to understand it, and only true cockneys really really know more. I'll probably think of more later.

Also, a true cockney has to have been born within the sound of Bow Bells in london's east end.

*once more the mine of useless information strikes the unsuspecting populace*

i'm mourning

Why?

Oh yeah, Whats the Morning glory? = whats the story?

No, I made this one up, it might be a bit loose.

Mourning relates to greiving rhymes with leaving.

I'm leaving.

doesn't work like that. At least one word in the phrase you use has to rhyme with the word it means.

you could say grieving for leaving, but more likely would be something like

widow's grieving

which could be shortened to

widowing.

I'm confused!
Get off the lawn=bet he's gone=truant?

Yes Suzie we have been blessed with

your varitable plethora of knowledge!

Say Hallejulla! Amen

ps- hey, is that what they do on Monty Python
??????I never thought it was something particular and wondered what was the basis
of it's funniness as the main focus of a skit
it that valid or am I making up things to remember?

[This message has been edited by winki (edited 08-21-2000).]

oh, Its apples pears one that confused me I guess.