>>>>>>Or you might get this
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260901/Woman-lied-CV-A-Levels-bag-NHS-job-jailed.html
>>>>>
>>>>>Would be interesting to see that kind of enforcement on the purveyors of resumes I've looked at that claim expertise in every programming language and computer technology since Ada Babbage <bg>
>>>>>
>>>>>( I bet "don't tell porkies on your CV" required some translation for a lot of those not in the UK <bg>)
>>>>
>>>>Maybe even for those out of earshot of Bow bells ......
>>>
>>>You mean "porkies" is some kind of cockney rhyming slang ? ( or just a variation of "big fat lie" )
>>
>>Pork pies -> Lies :=}
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>Wow. My midlands English runs out somewhere at the ring road <g>
>
>Slangy slang - ranks up there with "It's crackers to slip a rozzer a dropsy in snide."


Not sure about that line Charles.

Like most people my knowledge of rhyming slang is confined to bits from programs like Only Fools and Horses.

I think a prison sentence for this is completely ridiculous .