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Usenet Posted 17 years ago
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ATMs using Cockney rhyming slang
We just had a thread about Cockney rhyming slang now this article about ATMs using it. "They're" watching us.
"LONDON (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 colorful and often impenetrable dialect.
"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 "bladder of lard" at a prompt about examining their card."
http://tinyurl.com/lmkqj7
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
"LONDON (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 colorful and often impenetrable dialect.
"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 "bladder of lard" at a prompt about examining their card."
http://tinyurl.com/lmkqj7
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
Top answer
[nq:1]"ATMs run by a company called Bank Machine offer a language option allowing customers to enter their "Huckleberry Finn" instead of their PIN[/nq] But that's not the full Cockney. The essence of Cockney rhyming slang is that you leave out the word that rhymes. " - Marybones
- [nq:1]"ATMs run by a company called Bank Machine offer a language option allowing customers to enter their "Huckleberry Finn" instead of their PIN[/nq] But that's not the full Cockney.
- The essence of Cockney rhyming slang is that you leave out the word that rhymes.
- " - Marybones
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[nq:1]"ATMs run by a company called Bank Machine offer a language option allowing customers to enter their "Huckleberry Finn" instead of their PIN[/nq]
But that's not the full Cockney. The essence of Cockney rhyming slang is that you leave out the word that rhymes.
It should allow customers to enter their "Huckleberry" not their "Huckleberry Finn."
"If you can, tell me something h
But that's not the full Cockney. The essence of Cockney rhyming slang is that you leave out the word that rhymes.
It should allow customers to enter their "Huckleberry" not their "Huckleberry Finn."
"If you can, tell me something h
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[nq:2]"ATMs run by a company called Bank Machine offer a language option allowing customers to enter their "Huckleberry Finn" instead of their PIN[/nq]
[nq:1]But that's not the full Cockney. The essence of Cockney rhyming slang is that you leave out the word that rhymes. It should allow customers to enter their "Huckleberry" not their "Huckleberry Finn."[/nq]
It's like speaking in code. In
[nq:1]But that's not the full Cockney. The essence of Cockney rhyming slang is that you leave out the word that rhymes. It should allow customers to enter their "Huckleberry" not their "Huckleberry Finn."[/nq]
It's like speaking in code. In
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[nq:2]But that's not the full Cockney. The essence of Cockney ... allow customers to enter their "Huckleberry" not their "Huckleberry Finn."[/nq]
[nq:1]It's like speaking in code. Interesting.[/nq]
It *is* code. It developed as a way of communicating without the police knowing what they were talking about.
"If you can, tell me something happy."
- Marybones
[nq:1]It's like speaking in code. Interesting.[/nq]
It *is* code. It developed as a way of communicating without the police knowing what they were talking about.
"If you can, tell me something happy."
- Marybones
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[nq:1]The essence of Cockney rhyming slang is that you leave out the word that rhymes.[/nq]
Perfectly true, but as with any language there are some curious exceptions to the "rules". In my experience one doesn't go up the apples, or out the Jenny, take off one's daisies, or visit the cat...
Bert
Perfectly true, but as with any language there are some curious exceptions to the "rules". In my experience one doesn't go up the apples, or out the Jenny, take off one's daisies, or visit the cat...
Bert
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"Bert Coules"
[nq:1]Perfectly true, but as with any language there are some curious exceptions to the "rules". In my experience one doesn't go up the apples, or out the Jenny, take off one's daisies, or visit the cat...[/nq]
apples and pears = stairs
daisy roots = boots
Jenny?
cat?
Martin B
[nq:1]Perfectly true, but as with any language there are some curious exceptions to the "rules". In my experience one doesn't go up the apples, or out the Jenny, take off one's daisies, or visit the cat...[/nq]
apples and pears = stairs
daisy roots = boots
Jenny?
cat?
Martin B
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[nq:1]apples and pears = stairs daisy roots = boots[/nq]
Doogy rev!
[nq:1]Jenny? cat?[/nq]
Jenny Linder
Cat and mouse
Any help?
Bert
Doogy rev!
[nq:1]Jenny? cat?[/nq]
Jenny Linder
Cat and mouse
Any help?
Bert
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"Bert Coules"
[nq:2]apples and pears = stairs daisy roots = boots[/nq]
[nq:1]Doogy rev![/nq]
treb, at
Martin B
[nq:2]apples and pears = stairs daisy roots = boots[/nq]
[nq:1]Doogy rev![/nq]
treb, at
Martin B
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Good news for those who hate sappy pop music: "James," as in James Blunt, is no rhyming slang for a word that begins with C and, for some reason, makes even the angriest, swearingest, foulest women on Earth blanch.
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