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>>>>>Now Harry? Potter? Trueman? - neither replaces "become". Give in!
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>>>>Gee, and I thought you were British. Do you remember the Goon Shows?
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>>>Yes, just about: Eccles, Moriarty, Neddie, Bluebottle, ? No Harry that I know of (BTW there was a puppert version of that show, the "Tellygoons" when I was a kid but I never heard that mentioned in any reference to the Goonshow).
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>>UPDATE: DOH! Harry Seacombe! A bisyllabic rhyme. Way to go. I was looking for a monosyllabic rhyme. Now this, to me, is the fun of it, when you don't immediately get the rhyme but you understand the gist of the sentence anyway, and the rhyme comes later. :-)
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>Ah, ok then. You can ignore that part of my reply to your other post.
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>>There is one cockney rhyme I've never been able to fathom, and that the use of "kettle" for a wristwatch (No, the old adage "a watched kettle ..." doesn't count as RS).
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>Got this from Bartleby's:
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>A tin kittle is a silver watch. A red kittle is a gold watch. “Kettle,” or rather kittle, in slang language is a corrupt rendering of the words to-tick read backwards.

Well blow me! :-)

That's bugged me for years!

Never heard of Bartleby's.