I have often heard the phrase – its as Brass as Monkeys out there! A little like Cockey Rhyming Slang can have more than one meaning and not a lot of people really know what you are going on about unless you understand Slang. For those of you that don’t heres my own break down as to what means what as mastered to me by my dear East End Father! J
Most Slang has the full phrase and then the abbreviated version, i.e., Ouch, me poor Plates (My feet are sore). How you ask? Plates of Meat Rhymes with Feet so Plates + Feet
Apples & Pears = Stairs
Dog & Bone (Dog) = Phone
Horse & Cart = Fart
Trouble & Strife = Wife
Brahms & List = Pissed – I was a bit Brahms last night
Barnet Fair (Barnet) = Hair
Mechant Bank (er) = W*nk(er) / Merchant Bank (W*nk)
Pony & Bit (Pony) = S*it
Donald Duck = (Im sure you can work that one out)
Mickey Mouse = House
Rub a Dub Dub = Pub
Mutton Jeff (Mutton) = Deaf
Farmer Giles = Piles
Apparently its as Brass as Monkeys is from the full phrase, Its so cold you could freeze the balls off Brass Monkeys! A little like everyone says “Feed a Cold & Starve a Fever, when in fact the phrase is “if you feed a Cold you will have to Starve a Fever”. I learnt that all in Florida too? Werid eh?
If I can think of more later I will add them but there you go, Cockney Rhyming Slang 101. Apparently it all started in the Prisons so that the inmates could talk without the guards knowing what they were talking about and you find it carried over into every day slang in the UK. Most people will know a little bit and use it in daily speech.
Am up at the crack of dawn once again, its one thing to have to get up at this unearthly hour of 5AM but to have to defrost the car off too is a liberty at 5am. Thankfully, this time tomorrow I will be just hours away from flying to Miami. A six day Annual Pilgrimage to the Malls in America and to do a big Christmas Shop. Watch out Girls the S.L.A.G.S. are coming – and for those of you not from Vauxhall, S.L.A.G.S is the South London Action Girls Society! J
I’ve currently got 185,000 Virgin frequent flyer miles and am so tempted to use some to upgrade from Premium to Upper Class. I was just saving them for a free trip to Sydney! We will see. Maybe if I don’t use them I will get bumped up anyway?
Not been a bad year for Holidays all in All. I went to Rio for 9 Days for Carnaval in February (too short a trip for Rio), had a 4 day break in Portugal in May. Did Pamela’s Wedding (Pamela Anderson, no kidding, that’s her real name now) in Salt Lake combining it with my now 4th Annual trip to meet Janet in Las Vegas (Love Vegas Baby) and a stop over at San Francisco to see Ed & Jason. And then nothing from September till now. South Beach won over New York City as the accommodation was so expensive. Whats that then? Four Trips, not bad I spose. But then that’s why I am a Lucky Bitch init? And it certainly feels like I have hardly had a break. Work Hard and play Hard, that’s my Motto.
Guess now I have bought a house the trips will stop a bit – Yeah Whatever! Like my friend Marcus Says, (Mr Chops), if you don’t take these breaks you wouldn’t be able to work so hard when you get back cos you are so tired. That’s our excuse anyway and where sticking to it! J
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