Dear Philip,
The problem for me with spelling out cockney rhyming slang is
that the idea of it is to use just the first elements, as in 'I'm on my
Sweeney tonight.' to confound the non-Cockneys. Most slang is an in-thing,
to exclude other groups not on the know.
In the last line, I think you're using Bird Lime as a term for 'time' in
general. In fact, 'doing bird' has a specific meaning, of serving a prison
sentence..
Kind regards,
grasshopper
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From: "Philip Burton" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: [THE-WORKS] new submission: One
One
Schooled at bloody Sherborne, One tried to put a curb on
me North-and-South, or, as he would say, mouth.
I wondered why One one'd. I's were positively shunned.
Different source, old boy. Me? H.P. He? Soi.
My o's were solid ow's. We came to blows, had rows.
I started dropping h's that I hadn't done for ages.
I taught One how to spit. One taught me that caps fit
but one don't need to, and that the posh bleed, too.
One became a real bruv, but died behind the wheel
of his fashionable Mini, before I'd time to din
some Cockney rhymes in him, spend Bird Lime
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