If in London, and someone asks you for an Ayrton Senna?

[Fio1]

So, a mate of mine came back from a stink in the UK and asked me for an Ayrton Senna. :saywhat: I said, what the &^%$? :confused: He said it means, give him a tenner, 10 Pounds. :laugh: Supposedly it's a cockney saying. So, the next time you need $10, call it an Ayrton Senna. :cool:

[mapguy]

:saywhat:

[Winston Wolfe]

its called cockney rhyming slang....
typically heard in a very stereotypical HEAVY cockney, blue collar accent, with a heavy dose of sarcasm...

[Gnam]

Cockney Rhyming Slang
Perhaps the most infamous of all the British slang, Cockney Rhyming Slang is a richly complicated, in-the-know type of language. It is said that slang was originally developed by the thieves of London, so that they could communicate without the bobbies understanding what they were saying.

And they were most definitely successful. With the familiar words showing up in unlikely places in a sentence, the uninitiated can only shake their head in bewilderment.

In Cockney Rhyming Slang, a word is represented by a phrase that ends in a rhyme. For example, the word mate rhymes with china plate. So the phrase china plate represents mate. However, in spoken slang, only the beginning of the phrase would remain. So the word china means mate. Simple right?
Senna rhymes with ten-ah?

[Cam]

Senna rhymes with ten-ah?

Yep. Wanna take a guess on "cheese and kisses"? :D

[emjaya]

"Plate and dishes" :D

[Cam]

"Plate and dishes" :D

Crap! I should have added, aussies, kiwis and poms need not apply. :gomer:

[racer2c]

Is that what "pikies" speak in that Brad Pitt flick about English gypsies?

[devilmaster]

'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!

[emjaya]

'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!

That sounds like a gay pick up line. :saywhat: :gomer:

[Easy]

Is that what "pikies" speak in that Brad Pitt flick about English gypsies?


No, but its used with sub-titles in Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, the predecessor to Snatch.

[rosawendel]

'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!

just lay loose, slick. gonna catch up with you on the med side.

[devilmaster]

just lay loose, slick. gonna catch up with you on the med side.

What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!

[rosawendel]

chump don't want de hep, chump don't get de hep.

[racer2c]

First Jive Dude: @&$^ man, that honky mus' be messin' my old lady... got to be runnin' cold upside down his head. You know?

Second Jive Dude: Hey home, I can dig it. You know he ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap up on you man.

First Jive Dude: I say hey sky, s'other s'ay I wan say?

Second Jive Dude: UH...

First Jive Dude: Pray to J I get the same ol' same ol'.

Second Jive Dude: Eh. Yo knock yourself a pro slick, gray matter live performas down now take TCB'in man.

First Jive Dude: Hey, you know what they say... See a broad, to get that booty yak 'em.

First Jive Dude, Second Jive Dude: Leg 'er down 'n smack 'em yak 'em

First Jive Dude: Cold got to be. You know? #^@&.

[rosawendel]

golly!

[ferrarigod]

The cockpit--what is it?

It's the little room in the front of the plane where the pilots sit, but that's not important right now.

[devilmaster]

And Leo's getting larrrrgggger.

[Gangrel]

Dunn was over Unger, and I was over Dunn.

[Al Czervik]

Roger!

[TrueBrit]

Do you ever watch gladiator movies?