General Chat

Morning All you lovely friends.

I have been reading and learning as l go along with you lot. Marlyn your book does it go into how the slang came about or any thing else like that ?

In Finchley Cemetery there is a statue a grave of a Henry Croft (think that is how it is spelt ) he died in 1930 born 1862 or there about.
He was a road sweeper when he came out of an Orphange and worked in the Market. and reading about him he was the one who started off the pearly Kings and Queens in London .
The Costermongers as they were known then later became know as Barrow Boys. were supose to have been born in the sound of St Mary-le-bow in Cheapside (I found some of this out when researching my late husbands family ancestors.)

The slang came by these costamongers as they wanted to tell each other things secretly like the Beaks are coming things like that .
They started to wear brightly coloured clothes called them Flash they decorated there outfits with pearl buttons on their trousers they had bright coloured waistcoates and always wore muffles or scarfs if you like. which made them stand out from others..
This Henry Croft went further and started doing pearl patterns on the suits and clothes it was this that made him famous as he got to make money for charity. hospitals the poor families this was in the eightteenth century.
Evenntually every London bourough in London had a pearly King or Queen..
That was why the statue was errected on Henry Croft Grave.
This cemetery is not far from where my sister lives.

So if anyone knows anything else I would like to know.

Rita.

liz yes thats right Brown bread means dead

elephants trunk...........drunk

im of to bed now see you all in the morning xxx

You lot crack me up lol, can you imagine if you all met up and tried to talk in rhyming slang.

I had a fella once who came from Dunstable but knew lots of the talk and he used to say Brown bread meant dead!

Lizxxx

Answers for Marilyn.
1-Hair
2-Face
3-Arse
4-boobs
5-piles
6-arm
7-cobblers awls = ba**s
8-belly
9-douglas hurd=tu*d
10-eartha kitt =sh*t
11-bum
12-friar tuck= f*ck
13-ghunga dhin = chin
14-neck
15-ham+eggs=legs
16-teeth
17-hampton wick-= d**k
18-voice
19-ivory band=hand
20-j.arthur rank= w**k
21-piddle
22-kyber pass =ar*e
23-head
24-eyes
25-mouth

If you want more let me know,as you will soon get bored with them oterwise.

We lost at darts,in the semi finals. But never mind the seasons over now till september.
Night Night all slepp tight.

sorry marilyn i was lee marvin and went of to have me dinner

marilyn i need a benner and 2 lady godiva

ill give the apple core for them


PMSL bet marilyn is getting her self in a right 2 and 8


your right marilyn i do now a lot but not all my older kids also no a lot but not the younger one and some time we wind them and there mate up

exsample........we will ask one of the mate were he got his new me and yous from

Yes I get that Rita.....


So its a new era of Cockney Slang.... Well our Shelly is a new era she must be good at it ..LOL

what I was saying Marlyn , when they use names like Douglas Hurd he was not around when the cockney slang first started in the days when the Pearly Kings and Queens were just that rulers of their plot.

I heard someone say marilyn Munroe once well she was not born then or Gergory Peck.nor Earha Kit do you see what i mean ?
some names have been sliped in.
Like Lional Blairs meaning Flairs (trousers ) well he was not around at that time dont forget we are going way back.
so most are oringal but not all of them are the true slangs.

Rita

Shelly why is it not in my book ...????????????????? LOL

Rita the book I have is by Ray Puxley he was born with the sound of Bo Bells ringing in his ears.
He is the author of Cockney Rabbit & More Cockney Rabbit,

Got this book in the charity shop !! and I love it ..LOL

marilyn

Kipper/s............slippers

there i help you out lol

Right Mo,

1 Hair
2 Face.
3 Arse.
4 Titty.
5 Piles.
6 Arms.
7 Balls.
8 Belly.
9 Dont exist in my book !!
10 Shits or Tits.
11 Bum.
12 *uck 0r Luck.
13 Dont exist in my book !!
14 Kecks or Trousers or Cheque.
15 Legs.

Now Mo Whats a MOPSQUEEZER ? I got one ..LOL

Marilyn that just goes to show you that some of the real cockney slang has been changed from the original Barnet Fair is right Hair.
Boat Race - Face
Bottle and Glass- the a....
B ristol Cities Tities
Fife and drum, - Bum
Losf of Bread is the same as Brown Bread, -Head.
North and South- Mouth.
Mince Pies - Eyes,
Jimmie Riddle- having a tiddle,.
Hampstead Heath - Teeth.

The others I dont know as some of the names were after the original slang like Douglas Hurd,. Gregory Peck and J A Rank , Eartha Kit
so I have no idea where they came from or what they mean I can guess a couple but not to put in print lol
It poured with rain about 4 today it fell down it was pitch black as well needed to put the lights on.
see what Mo comes up with tomorrow,.

Rita

Shelly ....bound to get that one ...MONEY.!!! LOL

Sorry Mo,

I want an adjudicator to step in as in my book it says for (Kipper), what I put down.......Aint got nothing that says Kipper/s .....So there..LOL

Now I will do the rest.... gosh you are making me work you lot !!!!

Well done Marilyn,only number 6 is wrong.Kippers are Slippers.
Right are you ready for the next lot. Some you may have to clean up a bit.
1-Barnet Fair
2-Boat Race
3-Bottle +Glass
4-Bristol Cities
5-Chalfont St Giles
6-Chalk Farm
7-Cobblers awls
8-Derby Kelly
9-Doglas Hurd
10-Eartha Kit
11-Fife +Drum
12-Friar Tuck
13-Ghunga Din
14-Gregory Peck
15-Ham+Eggs
16-Hampstead Heath
17-Hampton Wick
18-Hobsons Choice
19-Ivory Band
20-J.R. Rank
21-Jimmy Riddle
22-Kyber Pass
23-Loaf of Bread
24-Mince Pies
25-North+South
Some are really easy,but some are near the knuckle,so be VERY careful
what you write.
I will see you tommorrow,as I have got darts tonight.

Right here goes.....

1 Braces or Faces or Races.
2 Socks...BUT Almond Rocks with an( S.).Cock or Penis !!!
3 Boot.
4 Shirt
5 Chest or breast or Vest.
6 Could be Spiv or coward or two faced or Fish related term pertaining to the Vagina ...(Kipper Box) LOL
7 Tie
8 Trousers.
9 Pocket
10 Chat or Hat.
11 Glove or love.
12 Suit.

Now how did I do ?????????????
It must be a big PASS .....LOL

Just a minuet I have just come home....I'll be back to do the quiz in a jiffy LOL

well you did well then Marilyn if you only brought one item your slipping. lol
I have been busy did the washing went and posted two parcels and a couple of cards then caught the bus into Woking and had my hair done all posh now. I got home at 1 o.clock but I was so tired. l had to sit and have a rest.
My daughter phoned she did not go today to see my S I L his sister and her husband went. she went and got his bag he took into the hospital with him. a propper little organzier is Shelly she phoned my daughter and said they are going to put him into a ward with 12 people in. he is pleased as he is in a basement and it has no windows it is the intensive care unite.so he goes in the ward this evening. I am waiting for the ward number now. I will go and see him next week while I am in London.

so I have just loged on to find 8 emails sitting there waiting for me I have one more to answer a two page email from one of my Granddaughters who lives in Christchurch Dorset.I shall see her next month when I go to Weymouth for a holiday with my sister.
some of those Slang terms I know but not many.

Rita

mo think you have scaerd marilyn off now lol

yep mo think iv get them all lol

but think marilyn will like this one the best

bees and honey