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and a conversational distraction	1:46pm 10/14/2004
While waiting for Gary and Leah on Friday night, V and i passed the time before dinner shopping on Irving St. While meandering through Wishbone, the source of much of Veronica's Paul Frank paraphernelia, she found a set of cockney rhyming slang flash cards. As i've mentioned before in this journal, right up my alley. I annoyed everyone a bit over our dinner at Pomelo, trying to work "noah" (Noah's Ark = shark) and "porkie" (pork pie = lie) into conversation. Unfortunately a lot of the terms in the cards refer to jail, the legal system, or crime (hmm, whyever is that?), but there are some gems in there. Keep your eyes peeled for my newfound vocabulary. For starters, i'm gonna be using these for donkey's, even if i am a sherman.
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Matthew

3:08pm 10/14/2004

In case your question wasn't tongue in cheek...: cockney rhyming slang was originally “invented” so east-end London criminals could make their crooked plans without fear of discovery. Hence, many of the oldest/original words refer to various aspects of the legal system. Quite a brilliant code – lets rhyme words with current everyday words we normally use – nobody will ever crack that. Ahh, the undisputed genius of the Londoner’s mind….and they call northerners dumb.

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