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Permalink Reply by s <3 on October 7, 2009 at 5:39pm

Every 1st April the BBC airs an April Fool, this is from a long time ago, but I was fooled into believing the story..... after all the only spaghetti I had ever seen came out of a tin covered in tomato sauce....

Permalink Reply by s <3 on October 7, 2009 at 6:02pm

Got it...... I read it wrong, I must need new glasses, I saw it as imao!!!!

Permalink Reply by s <3 on October 7, 2009 at 6:13pm

You have flummoxed me, I will have to ask Sophie...

Permalink Reply by Freak Face on October 7, 2009 at 9:15pm

I can't decipher it either... I have not a clue what it means. Are you going to tell us the answer Joni?

Permalink Reply by Percy the Dreamweaver and Son. on October 7, 2009 at 8:07pm

Lovely, Sue. It's taken me years for all that, wouldn't ask anyone, though (so stubborn)....the time it took was crazy......Mind you, I wonda 'ow they'd feewl wiv a bit'a goo' ol' Cockny slaaanng, eh, Dolly darlin' ?

They should pull up their almon's put their best King Tut forward, an' av' a quite rock 'n' roll down the frog, pop in the rubber an' say 'allo to a coupla chinas and then go an' n meet the good ol' touble from work. Wha' dou yu fink. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Permalink Reply by s <3 on October 7, 2009 at 8:19pm

Well I can understand that perfectly well....... seriously I can, must be in my breeding!!!!

Permalink Reply by Percy the Dreamweaver and Son. on October 7, 2009 at 8:31pm

Whhhooooaaaaa, steady, Sue......

Do really though, when I'm with tout and street trader mates it's very prevailant, and my good friend, Alfie, a ticket tout virtually lives within the language !

Permalink Reply by s <3 on October 7, 2009 at 8:34pm

My Grandad, the Druid, never called London London, he always said "I'm going up the smoke"

It was my Grandma, the Jewish one, that was "posh", she would not leave the house without gloves on, whether it was summer or winter!

Permalink Reply by s <3 on October 7, 2009 at 8:49pm

No.... I think it is referring to that London used to be very industrial, with lots of chimneys and coal burning in the houses too.

You are right.... London is know for it's fog but I don't ever remember it being foggy when I worked there. It might be something to do with all the pollution from years back..... maybe! We will have to ask Percy, he is the expert on London.

Permalink Reply by Percy the Dreamweaver and Son. on October 7, 2009 at 8:59pm

In the winter, my friend David and I would walk to primary school wearing smog masks (and wooly balaclavas, thanks Ma!)...You really couldn't see more than around 2ft (60cm) in front of you, sometimes less !!!....I remember walking, bang, into a lampost one morning !!!!!.....The change with smokeless fuel was phenominal, I can tell ya !

Right, duty calls....Ciao Bueno, peeps.x

Permalink Reply by s <3 on October 7, 2009 at 11:03pm

I did not know that it was so bad 21 years ago!

Permalink Reply by Percy the Dreamweaver and Son. on October 7, 2009 at 8:51pm

Meant to add. Cockney slang's no diff, from Polaris, the language used by show and stage people and homosexuals (especially before '67 when homosexuality, not lesbianism, odd that !, was imprisonable). The ways of speech were impregnable unless one knew...and if one knew, how did one know ?....In that way it remained a secret, so to speak, language............It has the theory that its' origins stem from travelling Italian troubadors and travel shows.....Of course it came to prominence with Sandy & Julien from 'Rround the Horne', the risque radio show of the 1960's....

Here's an extract from the last ever episode of Round The Horne broadcast in 1968, featuring the full crew with Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams camping it up something rotten. Some will find it very funny, and no doubt others will find it distasteful. Do you suppose they'd get away with it today?

Short feature on Kenneth's spell as one half of Round The Horne's Julian & Sandy, and the use of the Polari(or Palare)to break down early barriers in British society.