Alternative to cockney rhyming????

[walker]

My nan had a highly evolved version of cockney slang that resulted in such classics as "stairs" being referred to as "fruit"

I can see where it came from, Apples and pears

 

[walker]

a mate of mine says Cadbury's for money.

Apparently its cadburys Mash - Cash

 

[User482]

I can see where it came from, Apples and pears

You're quite right. It was confusing to this small child until she explained it though!

 

[mr_hippo]

One phrase my Gran used was 'Blue pencil' - guess what she used that for

 

[papercorn2000]

Stencil?

 

[domtyler]

My nan had a highly evolved version of cockney slang that resulted in such classics as "stairs" being referred to as "fruit"

"What a fackin' liberty"

 

[mr_hippo]

Stencil?

No but two clues:-
1) Gran was a sweet Victorian lady
2) Think war-time mail

It's not rhyming slang

 

[Over The Hill]

Wartime mail and all that...

Girl sender would write on the back of the envelope "Swalk" (Sealed with a loving kiss) Yuck!

But then said sweetheart would get the reply from the sex starved squaddie with "Norwich" on it....

(Knickers off ready when I come home)

 

[Over The Hill]

That is no reference to your Gran Mr Hippo!

 

[tdr1nka]

Is blue pencil a reference to corrospondance censorship or notification of death?

 

[mr_hippo]

Is blue pencil a reference to corrospondance censorship or notification of death?

You are correct! Gran was a prim & proper Victorian lady and instead of saying 'that bl**dy cat' she would say 'that blue pencil cat'.

Over The Hill - Further to SWALK & NORWICH, there was also:-
BURMA - Be Undressed and Ready My Angel
EGYPT - Each Grab of Your Pretty Tit

 

[Abitrary]

charlie chisolm = chillum

 

[Over The Hill]

I hear some youngsters today are doing something called "Texting" where you leave out letters in a word!

My Grandad did that when he didn't have his teeth in.

 

[mr_hippo]

^ We had e-mail in the 1950s

 

[laurence]

moby = feeling ill. not the little bald advert jingle writer, think white whale.