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[Evil Doctor Cheese]

Cor blimey me old cocker! Up those apple and pears and on the dog and bone me china duck!

But what does this have to do with James Bond I hear you cry! I wonder if you can add to the list of possible James Bond related cockney rhyming slang... I'll start us off.

I've heard you've been Gustav Graving
(Gustav Graving - Misbehaving)

She's a bit of a Goldfinger
(Goldfinger - Minger... which is Lancashire slang for an unattractive woman)

He's a Sean member
(Sean Connery - honoury)

[Mister Asterix]

Huh?

[Dr. Tynan]

I'm going to attempt some (sorry if these are )

Jaws - "Fatal Flaws" (there is such a phrase, isn't there?)

Hugo Drax - "Facts" (this one kinda rhymes)

Roger Moore - "Poor"

[Evil Doctor Cheese]

Ah! Thought this might baffle the Aussie and The Americans. Cockney Rhyming slang is a popular use of language in old London (and indeed I'm sure it still goes on today). It is a way of saying words that often shorten or encripts the phrase you are trying to say. Basically what the Londoners (Cocknies) do is take one word like "Telephone" and replace it with a word or words/phrase that rhymes with that word. So instead of saying "Telephone" they will say "Dog and Bone". Or instead of saying "stairs" they will say "apples and pears".

The point of this silly little post is for you guys to come up with some similar examples of cockney rhyming slang but using Bond words or characters for example:

Instead of "coat hanger" you could say "Scaramanga"! If you used it in a sentance you could say "Hang my coat up on that Scaramanga".

Us English and our silly ways Don't let it put you off... have a go yourself.

[Jules]

Evil Doctor Cheese (16 Apr, 2002 07:58 p.m.):


He's a Sean member
(Sean Connery - honoury)

I know there's a Robbie Williams song on 'Sing When You're Winning' (and I forget which song) where Robbie sings "I'm an honoury Sean connery born in '74 there's only one of me"
....LOL...your post reminded me of that.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Dr. Tynan (18 Apr, 2002 12:25 a.m.):
I'm going to attempt some (sorry if these are )

Jaws - "Fatal Flaws" (there is such a phrase, isn't there?)

Hugo Drax - "Facts" (this one kinda rhymes)

Roger Moore - "Poor"

I like 'fatal flaws".

For Drax, I think "email & fax" is better.

For Roger: "broke & poor".

Blofeld: "caught & held".

Felix Leiter: "sorry blighter".

Largo; "rotten cargo".

[General Koskov]

Ah yes, Cockney rhyming. I remember that, but I don't know how to use it! I think Londoners weren't the people who conquered Canada, because I have never heard any Canadians speak that way!

[Dr. Tynan]

Another thing, did you know that "Berk"
(as in "You stupid Berk") is rhyming slang for c**t.

It's short for "Berkshire Hunt".

[Dr. Tynan]

I know I have no business lecturing you on cockney rhyming slang but I'd just like to say that they don't aways use the whole "Rhyming phrase".

For example, "Butcher's hook" means "look". However a cockney would not say "Take a Butcher's hook at my kitchen floor (or whatever)" They would say "Take a Butcher's at my kitchen floor"

I think I read somewhere that cockney rhyming was started of by street traders who did not want their customers to know they were selling faulty etc goods. So they used this as a kind of code.

I don't know how true that is.