Oooh, me Chalmers are giving me gip
My further extensive research on celebrity Cockney Rhyming Slang reveals that Judith is not alone: Clement Freud is a slightly more straightforward curse when your piles are playing up.
Some more genuine rhyming slang involving television presenters:
Lionel Blairs = flared trousers
Melvyn Bragg = cigarette
Claire Rayner = running shoes
Magnus ‘SCIENCE!’ Pike = lesbian
Johnny Vaughn = pr0n (of course)
Cilla Black = running late (think about it)
A cleverer usage of the double-layered slang is the use of ‘Listerine’ to refer to a person who doesn’t like Americans: Listerine = anti-septic = septic tank = Yank. DO YOU SEE? Also I didn’t know that the verb “to grass” someone up stems from grasshoppper = copper. Shine a light!
I can Adam ‘n’ Eve that a ten pound note could be referred to as an Ayrton Senna, or even a Paul McKenna, but a Louise Wener? Jackson Pollocks.
Lastly the most Chicken Oriental one I’ve come across is Rolf Harris = Aris = Aristotle = Bottle = Bottle & Glass = Arse: “Me Rolf’s killing me, hope me Judiths ‘ain’t come back…”
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Alix on January 29th, 2007
Do you suppose cockneys have meetings where new slang is brought to the table and they have to show their working?
Kat on January 29th, 2007
No. They have Caron Keatings where new slang is brought to the Betty Grable etc etc
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on January 29th, 2007
i still like the idea that some particularly annoying famous person be made the slang for something unpleasant based on NO RHYMING LOGIC AT ALL but just the fact that they are annoying
viz “oh noes, i went to the clinic and turns out i’ve got a dose of the JUSTIN LEE COLLINS”
FT's pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on January 29th, 2007
yes this would be exactly like an admission i caught an STD from JLC
Emma on January 29th, 2007
Pete’s book of slang had Emma Freud(s) for piles which they abbreviated to Emmas much to his amusement.
Pete on January 29th, 2007
My favourite is a Tony Slattery, which is not so much rhyming slang as onomatopaic.
FT's grebtesthit on January 29th, 2007
Can someone explain to Idiot Me how Chalmers = piles?
FT's grebtesthit on January 29th, 2007
Never mind. Chalmers = farmers = Farmer Giles, right? Doy.