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COCKNEY CASH IS PICCADILLY.


Byline: Stuart Maconie

AT last the technological breakthrough we have all been waiting for!!

Hover An option in Microsoft Internet Explorer that removes the permanent underline from hypertext links. The underline displays automatically and only when the cursor is placed over (hovers over) the link. Hover is available in Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/Underline links.  jetpacks and protein pill breakfasts may still be decades off.

And despite being able to put a man on the moon, they still can't make an orange juice that tastes nice after you've brushed your teeth.

But, finally, we have what we have been crying out for, a cash machine that speaks in Cockney rhyming slang Cockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London. Overview
Traditional Cockney rhyming slang works by taking two words that are related through a short phrase and using the first word to stand for a word that rhymes with the
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Yes, that's right, next time you visit the hole in the wall you might find it asks for your Huckleberry huckleberry, any plant of the genus Gaylussacia, shrubs of the family Ericaceae (heath family), native to North and South America. The box huckleberry (G. brachycera) of E North America is evergreen and is often cultivated. The common huckleberry (G.  Finn (PIN) and if you're going to spend your cash dahn the ol rabadab or on some pie 'n' mash, whelks or a lahvely Ruby.

I imagine the overdrafts in Bacup, Bolton and Barnsley have started shrinking already.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Aug 27, 2009
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