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Forget Cockney and Popney, here comes Chipney

How to get Scott McNealy with your Larry Ellison

By Lester Haines

Posted in Bootnotes, 1st February 2001 18:08 GMT

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There have been several recent newspaper reports about the trend to create rhyming slang terms from celebrity names.

For those who are not au fait with the concept, the whole thing is based on Cockney rhyming slang. Here are a few original examples:

You get the idea. For further enlightenment check out the master of the East End accent - Dick Van Dyke - in Mary Poppins.

Now the world of pop music has jumped on the bandwagon and created a 'Popney' lexicon. Frankly it's a bit lame:

We reckoned we could do better. Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you Chipney: The linguistic possibilities are endless. Now we can put the whole thing together and coin the world's first Cockney/Popney/Chipney sentence:

Oy, I'm just off to the rub-a-dub for a couple of Britneys and a bit of the old Scott MacNealy with the trouble-and-strife.

Translation: Excuse me, I'm popping down to the pub for two beers and some physical intimacy with my wife. ®

Bootnote

Can anyone think of a term for Linus Torvalds? Damned if we can.