Rhyming Slang

...since I came back to England from Nebraska...

Nebraska!?!?!!  Crikey -- that's the end of the earth, innit?  (hee hee -- I'm from Kansas)

...I'm only about 20 miles from Norwich -- Right on  the coast between Happisburgh and Sea Palling....

I was hiking around Happisburgh & Eccles over the Christmas/New Year's hols. Crazy how it's all falling into the North Sea.

Carolyn B

Nebraska!?!?!!  Crikey -- that's the end of the earth, innit?  (hee hee -- I'm from Kansas)

Hi neighbor!   

I was hiking around Happisburgh & Eccles over the Christmas/New Year's hols. Crazy how it's all falling into the North Sea.

Talk about a small world.   I remember talking briefly with some Americans on the beach here over the holidays, so you never know, we may have actually met! 

Eccles isn't too bad as we have the sea wall built behind the dunes and the sea would have to rise a long way to flood over.  Happisburgh has been hit badly though, with many of the old holiday places on the clifftops now gone.    What's really annoyed people here is that the Environment Agency and local district council didn't do a d*** thing to help them.

Everybody put in all the ones I know!

What's the one for "wank"-it's a guy's name...like, "Having a Charlie Frank" but that's not it.

Hi neighbor!     

Yup -- born & raised in a very small town northwest of Wichita.  Graduated Univ. of Kansas in Lawrence...lived in Lawrence (loved it!) and KC area for about 15 years, then to Tampa Bay, FL for 6 years (to escape winter) -- now I'm a Yorkshire lass.  What were you doing in Nebraska & where?  I've been to the Omaha/Council Bluffs area before while visiting a friend.

Talk about a small world.   I remember talking briefly with some Americans on the beach here over the holidays, so you never know, we may have actually met!  

Don't think it was me -- I'd have been the lone American with my English husband and in-laws.  Still - we come back to Norfolk for a visit at least a couple times a year.

Eccles isn't too bad as we have the sea wall built behind the dunes and the sea would have to rise a long way to flood over.  Happisburgh has been hit badly though, with many of the old holiday places on the clifftops now gone.    What's really annoyed people here is that the Environment Agency and local district council didn't do a d*** thing to help them.  

Yes, my in-laws were talking about all that along our hike together.  MIL has very fond memories of Eccles as her family lived there for a time when she was a young child.

Carolyn B

   I can't remember too many right now, but 2 that i can think of are

Barney Rubble=Trouble

Hank Marvin=Starvin'

 

Gregory = Gregory Peck = neck

This one is slightly different in Scotland... we say 'gregories' to mean eyeglasses.
Gregory Pecks= specs.

Someone else mentioned 'mutt & jeff = deaf'.   We instead say 'corned beef= deef' 

What were you doing in Nebraska & where?  I've been to the Omaha/Council Bluffs area before while visiting a friend.

I had a job in TV engineering at a small station in the central part of the state:  Around the Kearney / Minden area, just off I-80. 

Yes, my in-laws were talking about all that along our hike together.  MIL has very fond memories of Eccles as her family lived there for a time when she was a young child.

Yep, it's a rather different place to most British settlements, isn't it?   Apparently over half the homes are now used as a permanent residence, but the place still has something of a holiday feel to it.  It tends to take on a rather different character in winter when the unpaved roads are like a swamp and the wind is howling off the North Sea though. 

(Apologies for drifting off-topic!)

Isn't Eccles near Manchester, ie Eccles Cakes?  Do they have Norfolk Eccles Cakes?

Not rhyming slang, but MIL always says 'palaver' meaning 'a bother'.

I like Bunsen Burner = nice little earner

Matt

I always crack up when Mo (Eastenders) starts going on about her "farmers".  Ewww?

Isn't Eccles near Manchester, ie Eccles Cakes?  Do they have Norfolk Eccles Cakes?

(Again, apologies for hijacking.) Not sure about Norfolk Eccles Cakes - Paul?  But yes, Matt, Eccles in Norfolk is right on the coast there.  I queried my Brit DH once about why are there multiple towns with the same name here in England (within such a relatively small country -- as compared to the US) -- his tongue-in-cheek response:  Lack of imagination.

Carolyn B

I always crack up when Mo (Eastenders) starts going on about her "farmers".  Ewww?

also known as "dukes" as in Duke of Argylles  or you could also say "bad case of the Rockford Files"

<snip>  or you could also say "bad case of the Rockford Files"

Couldn't do it. I liked Jim too much!

(Again, apologies for hijacking.) Not sure about Norfolk Eccles Cakes - Paul?  But yes, Matt, Eccles in Norfolk is right on the coast there.

No, we don't make our own Eccles cakes.  In fact we don't even have the little general store anymore since it closed a couple of years ago.     

The full name here is actually Eccles On Sea, but we're a very tiny dot on the map.   In fact on the general 4 miles-per-inch OS maps we don't even show up as that!    It's also confusing sometimes because there is a town named Beccles just across the county line in Suffolk.

also known as "dukes" as in Duke of Argylles  or you could also say "bad case of the Rockford Files"

Also known as Chalfont St. Giles

Matt

There's a great line from the film "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" by a character called Barfly Jack. He is describing an unsavoury character called Rory Breaker to one of the film's lead characters:

"Rory? Yeah I know Rory. He's not to be underestimated, you've got to look past the distinct facade. A few nights ago Rory's Roger iron rusted, so he has gone to the battle-cruiser to watch the end of a football game. Nobody is watching the custard so he has turned the channel over. A fat man's north opens and he wanders up and turns the Liza over. 'Now *bleep* off and watch it somewhere else.' Rory knows claret is imminent, but he doesn't want to miss the end of the game; so, calm as a coma, he stands and picks up a fire extinguisher and he walks straight past the jam rolls who are ready for action, then he plonks it outside the entrance. He then orders an Aristotle of the most ping pong tiddly in the nuclear sub and switches back to his footer. 'That's *bleep*ing it,' says the guy. 'That's *bleep*ing what' says Rory. Rory gobs out a mouthful of booze covering fatty; he flicks a flaming match into his bird's nest and the man lit up like a leaking gas pipe. Rory, unfazed, turned back to watch his game. His team won too. Four-nil. "

Roger - TV - "Telly" - (Roger Mellie)
Iron Rusted - Broke (Busted)
battle-cruiser - Pub (Boozer)
Custard - TV (Custard and Jelly)
North - Mouth (North and South)
Liza - TV (Liza Manelli)
Jam Rolls - Arseholes
Aristotle - Bottle
Ping pong - Strong
Tiddley - Drink (Tiddley wink)
nuclear sub - Pub
Bird's nest - Chest

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