>>>>>>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>
>>>>>
>>>>>~~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!
>>>
>>>But you're right.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>I suppose that would make you lot a load of "Tonkas"?
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>>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'.
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>Yea-but-no-but-yea-b' ... Huh?
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>One thing - you often can use a famous person's name to rhyme with something, but not the other way round. So Cherry Pits couldn't represent Sonny Stits.
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>Example: The "Great White Hope", Joe Baxi, in Liverpool is s taxi. (Sugar dab for cab too).
>Lilian Gish for fish.
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>I find it great fun, and quite civilised, to have the brain whirr into action to figure out a piece of rhyming slang I've never heard before. One I made up is "Stacey" for "the beach", for instance.

Ok, provided everybody knows who Stacey Keach is. The problem with it is that the first name that came to my mind is Stacey Kent, so I had to dig around in that great muddled warehouse for Stacey Keach.

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>I suppose you could also call us the "epileptics" :-)

If that's what I think, then speak for yourself, I don't drool on myself yet (at least, not very often).