>>>>I notice not many ham shanks online today because of their treacherous holdiay.
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>>>Ham shanks?!?! That's a new one. I'm sure it's derogatory. <g>
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>>>~~Bonnie
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>>I'd guess one of those cockney rhyming thingees for 'yanks'.
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>I keep saying - it's not just cockneys!
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>But you're right.
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>There isn't one for your lot, afaik. As you may know, you're not supposed to say the rhyming bit. eg they're all hams.
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>I suppose that would make you lot a load of "Tonkas"?

See the thing is, over here in the civilised world, we find it simpler to say 'Brits' rather than 'Cherries', so the other person can figure out that we mean Cherry Pits which would make the person naturally assume we are referring to 'Sonny Stits' the sax player and might never realise that we really meant it to rhyme with Ritz crackers so that the person would think of tea and crackers which leads, of course, to 'Brits'.