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[challenge entry] ockney cash

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There are 17 cockney rhyming slangs here, can you name them all?


From the You're Having a Giraffe challenge. See all 206 entries (closed)

(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:28, archived)
# 'ockney'?
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:29, archived)
# oops, forgot to compo it
that should make more sense now...
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:29, archived)
# i've got a few, but not many
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:32, archived)
# Wilson


(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:30, archived)
# picket?
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:32, archived)
# flickit!


(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:32, archived)
# *lickit!
Edit: *roll it
Edit Edit: i give up.
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:44, archived)
# yes, yes I can . . .
especially number 2=WOO!


(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:29, archived)
# no, no i can't
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:34, archived)
# would you like the master list?
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:35, archived)
# nope I want
the upload codez
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:37, archived)
# *gives*
*hidez*
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:42, archived)
# not really
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:37, archived)
# yes
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:40, archived)
# in disguise(ish):

ayrton senna = tenner
deep sea diver = fiver
a few bob = a couple of pounds
maggie = one pound (brassy and think they're a sovreign, apparently)
squid = a quid
jackson five = fiver
paul mckenna = tenner
ton = £100
bin lid = a quid
pony = £25
wedge = money
Huckleberry Hound = pound
plum = £100,000
pavarotti - tenner (tenor)
taxi driver = fiver
monkey = £500
bread = money
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:41, archived)
# Almost half of those
aren't rhymes.

Woo anyway.
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:43, archived)
# yeah, well...
...yeah...

(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:45, archived)
# pony = 25
from "pony hive", which is where ponies breed in their special vats of honey and blossom.
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:50, archived)
# A pony in rhyming slang is a poo
Comes from "Pony and trap" = crap
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 15:01, archived)
# some of those don't count
and i was taught that dustbin lid was 'yid'
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:44, archived)
# well you had a racist teacher
you racist you

though I was always told it was 'front wheel skid' for yid.
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:47, archived)
# hahah
there was a page in ronnie barker's 'porridge book of rhyming slang' that had all the racial slurs on it

full moon - coon
spotty dog - wog
dustbin lid - yid
i forget the rest

it was a great book
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:52, archived)
# two deep-seas for an ayrton
is what they say down the rub-a-dub
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:44, archived)
# i can't even begin
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:56, archived)
# they are as i can see
monkey (£500), taxi driver(fiver), pavarotti(tenner), hucklberry hound (pound), a few bob, diver(fiver), sick squid (six quid), jackson five(r), pony (£25), paul mccenner(tenner), a ton(one hundred), a wedge, bread, hidden thing hat could be a jam donut
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:42, archived)
# the hidden hat thing is a fruit of sorts
keep going - name the F1 driver...
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:44, archived)
# It's the F1 driver that was killed at the San Marino GP on 1st May 1994
y'know...Roland Ratzenberger
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:47, archived)
# what he said!
a Roland = £2,395,873,042,104,218,234,908,237,402,398,746,023,984,762,394,876,239,478,623,487,264.99
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:48, archived)
# That doesnt 'qualify'
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:52, archived)
# theres no point
you've given all the answers.

and where is the binlid hidden?
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:52, archived)
# good point
the bin lid is next to the ton, under the pony
(, Thu 3 May 2007, 14:59, archived)