Dear Arthur,
Apologies,
On my Sweeney was meant to be a joke at the way people mis-use Cockerney
slang - obviously not very funny.
Kind regards,
grasshopper
----- Original Message -----
From: "arthur seeley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] new submission: One ( Grasshopper)
> Insect I am no expert but Sweeney is Sweeney Todd= Flying Squad. On me
Todd
> is Todd Sloan=on my own. As for the rest you are right Rhyming slang is
used
> to marginalize non members of the group, we used to use back slang or I
> think it was called pig latin. Today's youth, every age's youth, does the
> same thing to the same purpose. Arthur
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "grasshopper" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:39 AM
> Subject: Re: new submission: One
>
>
> > 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
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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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