If you have a bank or building society account which pays interest, then when you visit your bank or building society interest payments should be given to you personally by a balding cockney who stuffs a crumpled £20 into your shirt pocket and says "Orright squire/dahlin', 'ere you are, you got a lucky face - mind how you go then".-- hippo, Nov 10 2002 (?) My old man said follow the van... http://www.pearlies.co.ukAmong other stuff there is a glossary of slang. [Jinbish, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004] (?) Mad Frankie Fraser http://www.madfrank...er.co.uk/cdrom.htmlIs this the sort of cheery cockney you were thinking of, hippo? [DrBob, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004] Mary Poppins http://www.amazon.c...026-3472425-7933267Hard to say which is the more horrific. Mad Frankie the axe murderer or Dick Van Dyke the dialect murderer. [DrBob, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004] The last time a cockney came near me, I whacked it with a shoe. I guess I should have check to see if it had money.
I also didn't check to see if it could talk.-- TBK, Nov 10 2002 its a bit of a worry if you go into the red - " Oye, mush. cough up or we send the boys round..."-- po, Nov 10 2002 <squish> Oops, was that a tiger?-- hippo, Nov 10 2002 how many interesting cockneys do you know? they'll have to be a breeding programme to supply more to banks if they find there aren't enough...-- iain, Nov 10 2002 I want cheery po to deliver my crumpled twenties - are you a cockney if you're from Battesea?-- yamahito, Nov 10 2002 not sure if its within the sound of Bow Bells. I was born in Clapham...ere's yer 20 mate...-- po, Nov 10 2002 Cheers! I'll accept postal orders..?-- yamahito, Nov 10 2002 Croissant just for the name.-- phoenix, Nov 11 2002 [hippo] - is this linked to Paul Merton's impression of HM The Queen as a cockney gangster on Friday night's HIGNFY? "Gorra nice suit Mr Burrell, doan wanna see anyfin appen to it, know whaddi mean?"
Class link [Rods] - where did you drag that one up from?-- PeterSilly, Nov 11 2002 Which in turn comes from Steve Bell's cartoon strip in the Guardian.-- General Washington, Nov 11 2002 I suggest renting some Michael Caine movies from the 60's.-- snarfyguy, Nov 11 2002 [waugsqueke]:Its not just the 'cockney' thats important. I think its the 'cheery' that is the main point. Lets have our money handed to us by benevolent 'nice uncle' types. The cockney accent happens to suit this - "There ya go sonny, theres ya macaroni. Take yoursel' daan to the rub-a-dub and treat yoursel to a forsyte or two."meaning "Here is £25. Go to the pub and buy a few pints of lager"-- Jinbish, Nov 12 2002 'Cockney' and 'money' go together like, well, Reggie and Ronnie. Or were you thinking more along the lines of someone like <winces> Dick Van Dyke? The fishbone is mine.-- DrBob, Nov 12 2002 //I know what Cockey means//
Are you going to share that with the rest of the class, [waugs]?-- whimsickle, Nov 12 2002 Sure of ones elf, verging on arrogance (generally somewhat outspoken too).(besides me thinks that is a typo by waugs)-- Jinbish, Nov 12 2002 [Jinbish] is right - it's about the human touch. A big corporation giving you your interest payment with a friendly pat on the shoulder and some kind words.-- hippo, Nov 13 2002 In pre-medieval times, the inhabitants of London were thought, by country-dwellers, to live a life sheltered from the harshness of rural realities, and referred to them as "cock's eggs", meaning spoiled children. "Cock's egg", in the speech of the day, was "coken eye".-- angel, Nov 14 2002 //in the speech of the day// Well, the speech of Kent, specifically. I think it was different north of the river. Unfortunately, no soft link exists to William Caxton's blog.-- pertinax, Oct 17 2007 random, halfbakery