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| | Post New Topic | | It's a mad, mad world .... | Views: 607 | | Jun 04, 2008 12:38 am | | It's a mad, mad world .... | # | 
Parag Pattani | | Enjoy these extracts from The Times of India
Cheers !
Parag
Chinese cabbie helps thief rob own home!
MELBOURNE: A Chinese cabbie unwittingly became the getaway car driver for a thief who robbed his own home.
Shen, of Huainan city, picked up the passenger at a bus stop at around 3 am and helped him load the things he was carrying into the boot of the cab.
That was when he noticed the man also had in his possession a fish without a tail - just like the one waiting in the freezer at Shen's home, reports the Daily Telegraph.
"I noticed he had a fish without a tail, and I thought how much it looked like the fish in my freezer at home. But then I laughed at myself for even having the thought," he said.
He put it down to freaky coincidence.
However, when he returned home, he was not prepared for the sight waiting for him.
He revealed that he had found his house broken into and his possessions - including the tail-less fish - missing.
Police later arrested a 56-year-old man who faces charges of burglary and theft.
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Japan man finds woman living in closet
TOKYO: A Japanese man who was mystified when food kept disappearing from his kitchen, set up a hidden camera and found an unknown woman living secretly in his closet, Japanese media said on Friday.
The 57-year-old unemployed man of Fukuoka in southern Japan called police Wednesday when the camera sent pictures to his mobile phone of an intruder in his home while he was out on Wednesday, the Asahi newspaper said on its Website.
Officers rushed to the house and found a 58-year-old unemployed woman hiding in an unused closet, where she had secreted a mattress and plastic drink bottles, the Asahi said. Police suspect she may have been there for several months, the paper said.
"I didn't have anywhere to live," the Nikkan Sports tabloid quoted the woman as telling police.
Local police confirmed that they had arrested a woman for trespassing, but would not comment further on the case.
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Cheeky robbers use women's G-strings as masks
MELBOURNE: Pirates using eye patches and robbers using full face masks on their loot has become passé, for the new-age burglars in Australia are using women's G-strings as masks while raiding a store.
A pair of robbers have been caught on the camera while they tried to raid a store, wearing women's undies for masks, reports The Daily Telegraph.
On their mission to loot a convenience store in Arvada, Colorado, one of the goons wore a green thong, while his partner was wearing a blue one.
And each of the thongs could barely cover the man's nose, mouth and chin and left the rest of his face exposed. However, none of the thieves were carrying arms.
One of them even wore a pink backpack, which he used to store the stolen stuff, mainly cash and cigarettes.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Jun 05, 2008 11:10 am | | re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Kana Gopal | | what crazy stories:) truth is stranger than fiction!
Private Reply to Kana Gopal | | Oct 28, 2008 3:52 am | | re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Reluctant groom sets hotel on fire?
28 Oct 2008, 0523 hrs IST, REUTERS
TOKYO: A Japanese man set fire to the hotel where he was due to get married at the weekend, rather than go through with the ceremony later the same
day, newspaper reports said on Monday.
Tatsuhiko Kawata, 39, had gone along with wedding plans despite already having a wife, the Yomiuri newspaper said.
"I thought if I set a fire I wouldn't have to go through with the wedding," the Yomiuri quoted him as telling police.
Guests at the hotel were evacuated and no one was injured when he set the fire in the early hours of Sunday morning at the resort hotel in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo.
Kawata and his fiancee had been set to get married before 80 guests. He was arrested after suddenly cancelling the event and behaving suspiciously, the Yomiuri said.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Oct 28, 2008 11:57 am | | re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # | 
Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | Cold feet need a fire sometimes ;)
Warm Regards
Subra
Private Reply to Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | Feb 02, 2009 7:53 pm | | It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Women rape man, cop is a robber
KARACHI: Karachi police have registered a case against three unidentified women who allegedly abducted a man and raped him over four consecutive days, and later throwing him near Qayyumabad River in an unconscious state.
The victim identified as Khalil, 23, works as a waiter at a restaurant. Khalil revealed that, on the night of January 27, an identified man ordered him to deliver food to the women sitting in a car outside the restaurant.
“After giving me the order, the man went towards the car. I took the order to the car where the women told me that they had recently shifted to the area,” the Daily Times quoted him as saying. The women then asked him to deliver food to their house every day. “They asked me to go along with them in the car to see me where their house was,” he added. Once they got to the house, “they gave me milk that had some drug in it ... I fell unconscious after drinking it”.
As he regained consciousness, Khalil found that the women “were forcing themselves onto me”. According to assistant superintendent of police Asad Raza, the women sexually assaulted Khalil for four days, and then threw him near Qayyumabad river. “His condition is really bad ... his genitals are bleeding and he cannot walk properly,” said Raza.
Raza said the women belonged to rich families of Karachi’s Clifton area. “It’s a complicated case ... but we are hoping that we will solve it soon,” he added.
Meanwhile, in another bizarre case in Karachi, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) police on Monday arrested four robbers, including a police constable, on charges of looting passengers and seized weapons, motorcycle and car from their possession.
SSP CID Police Chaudhry Aslam said incidents of robbing passengers returning home from foreign countries were on the rise. The CID, after receiving a tip-off, asked a car and two bikes’ riders to stop. However, they opened fire at the cops, who retaliated.
All four people riding the car, were arrested. One of the four accused, Khalid Amir, is a police constable, serving at Shara-e-Faisal Police Station.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Feb 21, 2009 10:27 pm | | re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | An English woman has overcome her fear of number 13 after giving birth to her son at 13 minutes to the 13th hour on Friday the 13th. Baby Isaac Lloyd-Jones even weighed 6lb 7oz, which adds up to 13.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Feb 22, 2009 11:05 pm | | re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # | 
Tim Flowers | | Funny stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Tim Flowers
Greensboro NC USA
Shine.Brightly.
www.timflowers.com
Private Reply to Tim Flowers | | Feb 24, 2009 2:29 am | | re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Hi Tim, I am glad you enjoyed them. Here's some more ..
ATHENS: Two convicted robbers pulled off a Hollywood-style escape from a high-security Greek prison, scaling a rope ladder to a hovering helicopter, aided by cover fire from a woman accomplice. Stunned authorities revealed that the exploit repeated a previous escape by the same prisoners from the same Athens prison three years ago.
Vassilis Paleokostas, 42, and Alket Rizaj, 34, were picked up by a helicopter that flew over the courtyard of Korydallos prison on Sunday afternoon. The inmates climbed a ladder thrown to them by a woman passenger, the ministry of justice said. Guards opened fire and the woman returned fire with an automatic rifle. No injuries were reported.
An elderly couple found the helicopter abandoned near a highway north of Athens, with the pilot bound and gagged and with a hood over his head. He told police that the helicopter was chartered by a couple who said they wanted to go from the town of Itea in central Greece to Athens. The couple had chartered the helicopter a number of times in the previous weeks.
Paleokostas and Rizaj were to appear before a magistrate on Monday in connection with their previous escape by helicopter on June 4, 2006.
That operation had been masterminded by Paleokostas’ elder brother Nikos, himself a convicted criminal who escaped from the same prison in 1990 during a mass breakout.
Rizaj, an Albanian national, was recaptured in September 2006, while Vassilis Paleokostas was apprehended in August 2008. While on the run, he is suspected of masterminding the kidnapping of a prominent Greek industrialist, Giorgos Mylonas.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Feb 24, 2009 2:44 am | | re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # | 
Triple A Andreas the Austrian in Australia | | Can't remember where I go this from, may even be a
posting at this forum, but it's still funny:
ENGLISH SIGNPOSTS AROUND THE WORLD
Have fun understanding English.............
In a Bangkok temple:
"IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN."
Cocktail lounge, Norway:
"LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR."
Doctors office, Rome:
"SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.
Dry cleaners, Bangkok:
"DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS.
In a Nairobi restaurant:
"CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER."
On an Athi River highway:this is the main road to Mombasa, leaving Nairobi.
"TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE."
On a poster at Kencom:
"ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP."
In a City restaurant:
"OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS."
A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer:
"DO NOT ACTIVATE WITH WET HANDS."
In a cemetery:
"PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES."
Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations:
"GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED."
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
"OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR."
In a Tokyo bar:
"SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS."
Hotel, Yugoslavia:
"THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE IS THE JOB OF THE CHAMBERMAID."
Hotel, Japan:
"YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID."
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery:
"YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY."
A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
"IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST CAMPING SITE THAT PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE."
Hotel, Zurich:
"BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE."
Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand:
"WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?"
The box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong:
"GUARANTEED TO WORK THROUGHOUT ITS USEFUL LIFE."
In a Swiss mountain inn:
"SPECIAL TODAY - NO ICE-CREAM."
Airline ticket office, Copenhagen:
"WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS."
A laundry in Rome:
"LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD TIME."
Private Reply to Triple A Andreas the Austrian in Australia | | Feb 24, 2009 3:15 am | | re: re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Very nice ones, AAA. Keep 'em coming. Need more humour and humour loving people here.
Cheers !
Parag
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Feb 24, 2009 3:46 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... one from my side. | # |
Amit Jain | | Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.*
*Here are the glorious top 10 winners:
1.** **When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder: he peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.
And now, the honorable mentions:
2.** **The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting machine and, after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.
3.** **A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.
4.** **After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Sarare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
5.** **An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.
6.** **A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer... $15. [If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?]
7.** **Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief in the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
8.** **As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, 'Yes, officer, that's her. that's the lady I stole the purse from.'
9.** **The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan , at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away. [A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER]
10.** **When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.
*In the interest of bettering mankind, please share these with your friends and family... unless of course one of these individuals by chance is a distant relative or long-lost friend. In that case, be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.
**** Remember... They walk among us!!! ***
Amit Jain
Private Reply to Amit Jain | | Feb 25, 2009 6:25 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... one from my side. | # |
Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | I must say Amit, the Zimbabwean easily must have the combined IQs of all the others combined. Brilliant!
I feel bad for Mr James Elliot though - even if he had it coming. Literally here, the joke was on him (or in).
Good stuff man. Helps drive us on from midweek to weekend easily :)
Warm Regards
Subra
Private Reply to Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | Feb 25, 2009 7:33 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... one from my side. | # |
Parag Pattani | | Excellent stuff Amit. Thanks.
Parag
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Feb 28, 2009 5:30 am | | re: It's a mad, mad world .... the story of Romeo & Julian | # |
Parag Pattani | | LONDON: A school in Britain that staged a gay version of Romeo and Juliet – called Romeo and Julian – has been accused of “mind-blowing” political correctness.
The play, which was performed by teenagers at a school in London to coincide with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) History Month, has caused a stir in parliament. Drama teacher Jo Letson reworked Shakespeare’s play to challenge ‘homophobia and homophobic bullying’.
Calling for a debate on political correctness during questions on upcoming Commons business, Tory MP Philip Davies said, “This is mind-blowing. Anyone with an ounce of sense would want their children to be learning Romeo and Juliet rather than Romeo and Julian.”
The MP added: “Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest works ever written. It is a play that every child should study. It is very worrying that this literary masterpiece is being used for such a politically-correct purpose.”
However, Commons leader Harriet Harman rebuked him, saying, “I seem to remember that in Shakespearean times, boys would play girls and girls would play boys and the whole point was trying work out which was which.”
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | May 06, 2009 9:20 pm | | re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Speed Camera boss caught speeding -
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A speed camera boss had a taste of his own medicine on Wednesday when he was banned from the road for driving at more than 100 mph (165 km/h) on a 70mph highway.
Serco has installed about 5,000 traffic cameras in UK.
Tom Riall, a chief executive of Serco, which supplies many of Britain's traffic enforcement cameras, was caught by a police patrol car in Newmarket, in the eastern English county of Suffolk.
Riall was recorded driving at 102.92 mph in a Volvo car, Sudbury Magistrates Court heard.
He was fined £300 ($450) and banned from driving for six months.
The father of three made a statement outside the court in which he apologized for his actions.
"I accept the decision of the court. I recognize that speeding is not acceptable and regret what I did," said Riall.
"My speeding was excessive and I have made a full apology to the court."
A Serco spokesman told CNN that Riall would not lose his job, and that he had pledged to provide his own driver to transport him for work.
The court heard he had two previous motoring convictions, including a past speeding offense, from 2006 and 2007, the Press Association reported.
Since 1992 Serco has installed more than 5,000 traffic enforcement cameras around the United Kingdom.
The company says on its Web site that its cameras had helped to save 100 lives a year "by deterring excessive speed and improving compliance with traffic signals."
Riall, the chief executive of Serco's civil government division, has responsibility for installing and maintaining speed cameras, the court heard.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Jun 10, 2009 2:13 am | | re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | US "pregnant man" gives birth to second child
LOS ANGELES: Thomas Beatie, the transgendered man who created history last year by giving birth to a baby girl, has done it again.
ABC News reported that Beatie gave birth to a son early Tuesday in Bend, Oregon, and that the child would be nursed by his wife, Nancy.
Beatie, 35, was born a woman, but legally changed his gender. He decided to get pregnant after it emerged that Nancy could not conceive. Photos of a bearded pregnant Beatie caused a sensation last year.
ABC News quoted sources close to the couple as saying that it was a natural childbirth and not via Caesarean section. Beatie revealed last year that after giving birth to his first child he did not start again taking male hormones to allow him to get pregnant.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Jun 10, 2009 2:44 am | | re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | ;)
Beatie really takes the whimsical cake!
Warm Regards
Subra
Private Reply to Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | Jun 30, 2009 10:46 am | | re: re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Cellphone saves skier
LONDON: His cellphone saved him. Yes, a British skier, who slipped into a crevasse in the Swiss Alps, was saved from plunging nearly 700 feet to his death by his 'Blackberry' mobile phone.
David Fitzherbert's half-inch wide mobile handset in his breast pocket caused him to get wedged in a crack of ice, stopping him from falling further. And, incredibly, the device still worked after keeping him stuck for almost two hours till he was rescued.
The 52-year-old finance worker was skiing off-piste down a glacier in the Matterhorn and Monterosa peaks in the Swiss Alps when the snow gave way.
"The snow gave way beneath me and I fell down a very deep crevasse. After 70 feet it narrowed and I became stuck like a cork in a bottle between the walls. Fortunately the extra inches of the Blackberry were enough to block the fall," Fitzherbert told British tabloid 'The Sun'.
He broke his jaw, smashed his teeth, cracked a bone in his chest and nearly tore his nose off. His mountain guide made a distress call, and a mountain rescue team came to dig him out.
"I was stuck so fast they had to get a drill to dig away at the ice around me. I was eventually winched out by the helicopter rescue team," Fitzherbert said.
He was flown to hospital suffering extreme hypothermia and concussion in Swiss capital Bern where surgeons reattached his nose. He spent ten days in hospital, using the Blackberry to call his wife in the UK.
"It was still working well enough for me to tell her I was alive. I couldn't believe it," he said.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Jul 04, 2009 5:36 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Snake dies after youth bites it
(Bhavnagar, where this incident happened is located on Gulf of Cambay on the western coast of India. I was brought up and did my school in this town - Parag)
BHAVNAGAR: In a bizarre incident, a youth bit off a snake's head after he was stung by the serpent in Gadhada taluka on Thursday.
According to the sources, Naran Shamjibhai was strolling late on Thursday, when he felt a sheer pain in his leg. "He looked down to see a snake slither away and realised that it was a snake bite. Naran caught the snake and in a fit of rage he bit its head off, killing the snake on the spot. Naran was rushed to Gadhada Referral Hospital where he is recuperating now," said an official from the hospital.
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Jul 04, 2009 5:40 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | Whoa! Rough and ready. Enter SnakeBoy ;)
Private Reply to Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | Jul 05, 2009 3:10 am | | It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Man murders wife over Facebook entry
LONDON: A British man murdered his estranged wife after she changed her marital status on social networking site Facebook to "single", a media report said on Sunday.
Edward Richardson, 41, stabbed Sarah Richardson, 26, to death at her parents' home in Staffordshire May 12, 2008, BBC News reported.
Richardson, who tried to commit suicide after the attack, has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 17 years in prison.
"Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his messages," said Fiona Cortese of the Crown Prosecution Service.
"He gained entry by breaking the front door window and made his way into the property. Once inside he found Sarah in her bedroom and subjected her to a frenzied and brutal attack with a knife and then attempted to take his own life," she added
Private Reply to Parag Pattani | | Jul 05, 2009 12:13 pm | | re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | Talk about sensitive! Poor gal ...
Private Reply to Saunthara Subramaniam Velu | | Nov 03, 2009 11:57 pm | | re: re: It's a mad, mad world .... | # |
Parag Pattani | | Slang on London ATM's
The following appeared in the online edition of Times of India dated 25th August
LONDON: You'd better get ready to use your loaf if you want to get your hands on some bread.
Over the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang, the area's colorful and often impenetrable dialect.
ATMs run by a company called Bank Machine offer a language option allowing customers to enter their ``Huckleberry Finn'' instead of their PIN, and rather worryingly informs them that the machine is reading their ``bladder of lard'' at a prompt about examining their card.
The origins of Cockney rhyming slang are obscure. It is thought to have been used by market traders who needed a way of communicating without tipping off their customers.
It works by replacing a word with a short rhyming phrase. For example: ``Money'' becomes ``bread and honey,'' which in turn is shortened to ``bread.'' Similarly, ``head'' becomes ``loaf of bread,'' and then just simply ``loaf.''
Few use the slang with any regularity now although most Britons know a few common phrases, such as ``trouble and strife'' for wife and ``apples and pears'' for stairs.
Gabriella Alexander, who made a withdrawal from an ATM, near Spitalfields Market, said the stunt was fun. But she added that that withdrawing ``sausage and mash'' _ or cash _ ``made me a little uneasy.''
Slaney Wright, a 32-year-old charity worker, attempted to withdraw money from the ATM but visibly tensed up when she realized the machine was talking to her in Cockney slang. She immediately canceled the transaction and ripped the card out of the machine.
``It looks like someone's been messing with it,'' she said.
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Vikash Pillay | | Imagine if we tried this slang in Singapore....Hmmmm...
Leave the imagination to you...
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