The Bobby Moore and the oil

[Nearly Sane]

Following on the fiver and the fat, the BoE are considering palm oil for the new twenty pounds note. Not having that spent too much time facing at orangutans to support a tacit destruction of their habitat.


BTW wouldn't it be good to have a picture of Bobby Moore on the score.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39441971

[ippy]

Following on the fiver and the fat, the BoE are considering palm oil for the new twenty pounds note. Not having that spent too much time facing at orangutans to support a tacit destruction of their habitat.


BTW wouldn't it be good to have a picture of Bobby Moore on the score.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39441971

Like it N S, I haven't done it yet but I was thinking of some of the old London sayings and would find it interesting to hear any other local sayings, this post of yours has jogged my memory.

One of the old sayings dates back to my youth: "I didn't know whether to get a haircut or buy a violin", anybody else know it's derivation?

ippy

[Harrowby Hall]

One of the old sayings dates back to my youth: "I didn't know whether to get a haircut or buy a violin", anybody else know it's derivation?

Gypsy violinists with long hair.

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Bobby Moore.👍

[Jack Knave]

A pissed lout after a night of binge drinking, vomiting in an alley way with a pissed woman with her nickers down!!!

[ippy]

A pissed lout after a night of binge drinking, vomiting in an alley way with a pissed woman with her nickers down!!!

You can't beat a deeply cultural exchange from time to time, thankyou Jack.

ippy

[floo]

I think they should continue to use animal fat, which is in ample supply. Why on earth should a football player be put on the notes, did Moore do anything of merit, other than just kicking a ball around?

[Bubbles]

Did Floo get out of bed the wrong side today?

[Nearly Sane]

Did Floo get out of bed the wrong side today?

Avoids obvious remark...


It would appear that some haven't picked up on the reference - Bobby Moore is rhyming slang for £20 - score

[floo]

Avoids obvious remark...


It would appear that some haven't picked up on the reference - Bobby Moore is rhyming slang for £20 - score

I just don't get it?

[Nearly Sane]

I just don't get it?

20 is a score. The cockney ryhming slang for £20 is Bobby Moore/score.

[floo]

20 is a score. The cockney ryhming slang for £20 is Bobby Moore/score.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

[Harrowby Hall]

I understand Floo's confusion completely. I was not aware of that, either.

Perhaps it might be possible in future to use less cryptic content in initial posts?

[Nearly Sane]

I understand Floo's confusion completely. I was not aware of that, either.

Perhaps it might be possible in future to use less cryptic content in initial posts?

That would be no fun though. The clues were there in the title and in the post. If you have to explain jokes before you make them sort of undermines the point.

[Harrowby Hall]

But I wonder just how many people have ever heard that particular expression: Bobby More = Score = £20?   Is it used in some TV programme that I don't watch? Since the demise of Arthur Daley I have not come across much Cockney rhyming slang (they certainly don't do it on Holby City or Dr Who  )

Humour which is impenetrable to all but an inner circle can hardly be considered universal ...   The title was gibberish.

[Nearly Sane]

But I wonder just how many people have ever heard that particular expression: Bobby More = Score = £20?   Is it used in some TV programme that I don't watch? Since the demise of Arthur Daley I have not come across much Cockney rhyming slang (they certainly don't do it on Holby City or Dr Who  )

Humour which is impenetrable to all but an inner circle can hardly be considered universal ...   The title was gibberish.

If people got it, they got it. Universal humour is an oxymoron.

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But I wonder just how many people have ever heard that particular expression: Bobby More = Score = £20?   Is it used in some TV programme that I don't watch? Since the demise of Arthur Daley I have not come across much Cockney rhyming slang (they certainly don't do it on Holby City or Dr Who  )

Humour which is impenetrable to all but an inner circle can hardly be considered universal ...   The title was gibberish.

If you've ever lived in London you should know or be able to work it out but then rhyming slang is meant to be gibberish to outsiders

[ippy]

Your Gordon harkers? (Cockney )

ippy

[Maeght]

I understand Floo's confusion completely. I was not aware of that, either.

Perhaps it might be possible in future to use less cryptic content in initial posts?

Never heard that one. Glad someone explained it.

[Robbie]

Your Gordon harkers? (Cockney )

ippy

Starkers?

I hadn't heard of Bobby Moore-Score either.

[ippy]

Never heard that one. Glad someone explained it.

Gordon harkers your barkers, your dogs, your plates of meet, your feet; I have to take my shoes off me dogs are barking, Simple!

My Dad was a cockney, from Hackney Wick, you could hear the bells of St Mary all across the Hackney marshes when my Dad was a boy. 

St Mary -Le-Bow was bombed in 1941 by the Germans and wasn't completely restored until the early sixties, so technically, no cockneys were born in the period when the bells weren't ringing.

ippy   

[Maeght]

Gordon harkers your barkers, your dogs, your plates of meet, your feet; I have to take my shoes off me dogs are barking, Simple!

My Dad was a cockney, from Hackney Wick, you could hear the bells of St Mary all across the Hackney marshes when my Dad was a boy. 

St Mary -Le-Bow was bombed in 1941 by the Germans and wasn't completely restored until the early sixties, so technically, no cockneys were born in the period when the bells weren't ringing.

ippy   

I was actually referring to the Bobby Moore one but it applies top Gordon harkers or whatever just as well 

[Rhiannon]

If you've ever lived in London you should know or be able to work it out but then rhyming slang is meant to be gibberish to outsiders

Actually it's meant to be gibberish to the rozzers, or was originally.

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Gordon harkers your barkers, your dogs, your plates of meet, your feet; I have to take my shoes off me dogs are barking, Simple!

My Dad was a cockney, from Hackney Wick, you could hear the bells of St Mary all across the Hackney marshes when my Dad was a boy. 

St Mary -Le-Bow was bombed in 1941 by the Germans and wasn't completely restored until the early sixties, so technically, no cockneys were born in the period when the bells weren't ringing.

ippy   

A bit of a literal interpretation. Who knows how far the bells could be heard back in the day, though they reckon they would probably have been heard in Plaistow, which is where I was born. Anyway, I'm on holiday in the land of the Turk at the moment getting a bit of the old currant bun on my back so, adios mon amigo. Went to see some old Roman ruins and saw mountains for the first time.

[ippy]

Actually it's meant to be gibberish to the rozzers, or was originally.

No it isn't, it reflects the really well developed sense of humour of a large section of Londoners, my father was a copper and a cockney.

ippy