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[challenge entry] more cockerney sparrers

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(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:05, archived)
# George Bernard Hackney
Acne?
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:07, archived)
# no,
G.B. Mustules - pustules
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:10, archived)
# Shaws
Sores?
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:15, archived)
# indeedly
doodly
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:16, archived)
# Had Kallus crafted that anim
it would surely have been Spores.


You can be sure of it!
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:29, archived)
# yarr
rrr
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 21:33, archived)
# FACT
George Bernard Shaw was contractually obligated to write and put on a play for a theatre he had fallen out with. He called the play "CLOSED FOR REFURBISHMENT", which is what appeared on the theatre hoarding. No-one came, and it was cancelled.
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:08, archived)
# good fact!
FACT!
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:10, archived)
# Fantastic
Fact!
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:20, archived)
# Factastic!
I believe.
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:28, archived)
# and a true
FACT too... i read it on Snopes
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:39, archived)
# see
i've just looked for it on snopes and can't find it, thats where i read it wasn't true
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:42, archived)
# I've heard that before
but i don't think it's true. he did write a play and he desperatly wanted to call it closed for refurbishment, people bought tickets turned up, saw it said colsed for refurbishment and went home again, he was disapointed that people didn't get the joke and changed the title a few days later.

EDIT:I think the play becaome heartbreak house

I'm not sure if it's true, i'm doing some research to clarify

hold the phone
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:40, archived)
# so much better
the way I tell it, if not true
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:52, archived)
# I can't find anything
so i'm gonna say it's 50% of fact
(, Mon 10 Feb 2003, 17:57, archived)