Enlist the presence of Smiley Culture (top London singer of the mid-80s) to figurehead a range of probiotic yoghurt, with advertising campaign centering around cockney rhyming slang and caribbean slang, in the way that Smiley Culture did so well on his '80s hit "Cockney Translation".-- Ian Tindale, Feb 10 2006 Interest Cockneys Interest_20CockneysAlso applies to the financial sector [hippo, Feb 10 2006] Poem with a rhyme for "Peach Melba" http://p197.ezboard...?topicID=3856.topic [hippo, Feb 10 2006] Tommy Steele's Yoghurt Covered Bull http://www.rockabil...l/lyrics2/l0048.htmoff the scale on the cringe index [xenzag, Feb 11 2006] Oranges and Lemons original http://www.rhymes.o...nges_and_lemons.htm [Ling, Feb 12 2006] Dame Nellie Melba http://www.answers..../topic/nellie-melba [ConsulFlaminicus, Feb 14 2006] Cockney qualification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney [Ling, Feb 14 2006] Maybe teamed with a campaign from the DVLA and the Metropolitan Police?-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Feb 10 2006 Hey officer, won't you gimme probiotic?-- wagster, Feb 10 2006 I've wasted all afternoon trying to come up with a rhyme for 'peach melba'. It just can't be done.-- zen_tom, Feb 10 2006 december?-- po, Feb 10 2006 Isle of Elba?-- DrCurry, Feb 10 2006 po, that's reasonable (why didn't I think of that?), but no cigar - and DrCurry and hippo, I'm sorry, but dropping an M and using 'Elba', as in 'the Isle of' or, (from the linked poem)
"In the room the women come and go....?"’ He smirks, then ordering dessert (Peach Melba), leans back, it's good, he thinks, 'to be in the know'. ‘Tomorrow,’ she suggests, ‘lets visit Elba’.
..is just bad form.-- zen_tom, Feb 10 2006 A 'baker named Tom had Peach MelbaStopped eating and cried "I smell ba-nanas or something""That's twice this month" in-terjected that 'baker from ElbaDamn! There goes "Elba" again! (I took my eye off the ball after finding a rhyme for "something")-- hippo, Feb 10 2006 Ho ho - I actually spilled a bit of my yoghurt laughing at that!-- zen_tom, Feb 10 2006 I think I'm gonna need to forward this to waugs, who can then explain and pat my hand and tell me how to vote. Or if voting is even a thing one would want to do...I think.-- blissmiss, Feb 11 2006 as long as it features my number one irritation of all time Tommy Steele, leading an army of cheerfully rhyming cockneys (all of them please) into the Thames at low tide, like the pied piper riding on the back of his little white, yogurt coated bull, then the whole lot being washed out to sea, as the tide turned, leaving nothing but a giant yoghurt slick for the gulls to feast on. The bull, of course, swims ashore unharmed +-- xenzag, Feb 11 2006 Cheap imitations ("Tesco value") would have to settle for Dick Van Dyke... [+]-- spinglespangle, Feb 11 2006 Will the yoghurt have to be made within the sound of Bow bells?-- Jinbish, Feb 11 2006 Lovey tasting cock-a-ney yoghurt, Flavours like Peach Melba See top of pot: for date, selba.-- Jinbish, Feb 11 2006 ???-- RayfordSteele, Feb 12 2006 "Oranges and Lemons", said the Bells of St. Clement's "Peaches and Melba" say the Bells of St. Elba "Please eat me daily" say the Bells of Old Bailey "My culture's rich" say the Bells of Shoreditch "I'll have a strawberry" say the Bells of Stepney "My fat is real low" say the Great Bells of Bow "Here comes a Yoghurt to alight you from bed Here comes a Knife to butter your bread Drip drop drip drop - til the last man's fed."-- Ling, Feb 12 2006 Parhaps some anagrams could be used in the jingle;
Check young tory / Coco tyke hungry- / He try Gunky coco / Crunchy, yet go OK.
Or a more adult version;
Trench yucky goo / Chuck ye orgy not- / Yecch gunky root / Cock thy urge yon...-- ConsulFlaminicus, Feb 13 2006 Practically any word can rhyme in Reggae, you just put the same vowel on the end of every word and excentuate and lengthen that sylable.
Love peach and melba Know what i mean-ah Need probiotic-ah Very rich cultur-ah-- mattt, Feb 13 2006 It's sad watching all your feeble efforts to be cockneys. The answer is obvious to anyone who has even a passing knowledge of the lingo:- If you want yoghurt in your belly You can't go wrong with our Dame Nelly! <wanders off singing 'The old bamboo">-- DrBob, Feb 14 2006 //You can't go wrong with our Dame Nelly// Our? Nellie Melba was an Aussie.-- coprocephalous, Feb 14 2006 Yes and sp: Nellie. 'Dame Nellie' is rhyming slang for 'elbow' as in "He Dame Nellied me in the boat race."-- ConsulFlaminicus, Feb 14 2006 I wasn't referring to the origin of Dame Nellie (sp: corrected!) but to the origin of the, no doubt delicious, Cockney Yoghurt. Oh do pay attention!-- DrBob, Feb 14 2006 Black Cherry - Woolwich Ferry.Forest Fruits - D.M. Boots.As in "I'll 'ave a Woolwich and a low-fat Doc"-- hippo, Feb 14 2006 Vanilla - Urban Guerilla Passion fruit - bathing suit-- coprocephalous, Feb 14 2006 I was bawn a' Beffnal Green 'ospi'al. See link. Tha' makes me an 'onorary member by birf. I don't know no lingo, bu' I don't 'arf tawk funny.
Dropped T's and H's; th becoming ff; and plenty of 'aints': after leaving the extreme South-East (including the area around Chatham - pronounced Cha-am), it took me a long time to talk proper like what the rest of you does.
The only over-run I have is trouble with double ll's: an example in the link is 'Millwall'. I still say it 'Miw-wawl'.-- Ling, Feb 14 2006 rhyme it with any of these three people : Ahmed Mehelba, Milena Velba, Rajmund Kanelba or Mercedes Scelba.
Or, alternatively, with Apus melba, which is the latin for the Alpine Swift. Obviously.-- jonthegeologist, Feb 14 2006 I don't understand this idea.-- Ian Tindale, Feb 14 2006 The drugs wore off?-- DrCurry, Feb 14 2006 yeah, you get to know peoples' backgrounds - like why [jtg] became a geologist and not a mathematician. :)-- ConsulFlaminicus, Feb 14 2006 oh, thats so funny...
counting rings must be so hard.
<falls off seat>
sorry, still laughing - where's hazel, to wake him up?-- po, Feb 14 2006 'Ere, is tha' a cockney's yoghurt? Oooo-eerrr, Ah'll not be ea'in' tha' wan, than.-- UnaBubba, Feb 15 2006 If we made non-dairy versions of these fine products could we call them Mockney Yoghurts?-- Canuck, Feb 15 2006 Perhaps we could make a few 'ackneyed old jokes about pimples?-- UnaBubba, Feb 15 2006 //yeah, you get to know peoples' backgrounds - like why [jtg] became a geologist and not a mathematician. :)// [Insert reference to 'Spanish Inquisition' sketch here]-- DrBob, Feb 15 2006 I think we should give those rhyming attempts the elbow.-- Ian Tindale, Nov 14 2008 halfbakery