Cockney rhyming slang chains.
 

eg commodore = 15 pounds

Similar challenges welcome.

David

[SPOILER]Three times a Lady Godiva (fiver)[/SPOILER]

How about [URL="http://watchout4snakes.com/CreativityTools/RandomSentence/RandomSentence.aspx"]this [/URL]one? :smile:

[QUOTE=bsquared;267791]How about [URL="http://watchout4snakes.com/CreativityTools/RandomSentence/RandomSentence.aspx"]this [/URL]one? :smile:[/QUOTE]
Love it!

Reminds me of a programmer I used to work with.
He could quickly check whether two files were identical,
but instead of producing some boring checksum for each,
he converted them into a random sentence.

I do miss the camraderie of working with a small group of
similar-minded folk, but mersenneforum is a good substitute!

David

I was sitting at a train station in germany a while ago, occasionally overhearing a group of high-school aged kids talking. At that point in the trip I was used to not understanding anything that was said around me, so it was unusual in that I noticed something familar about the german they were speaking.

Right around the time that I started feeling proud of myself for finally understanding some german, I realized that [I]they were speaking english[/I]! Just a hopelessly mangled and accented version of it. I, on the other hand, spoke American, and so what they were saying made as much sense to me as the web site I linked to :smile:.

[QUOTE=davieddy;267772]eg commodore = 15 pounds

Similar challenges welcome.

David

[SPOILER]Three times a Lady Godiva (fiver)[/SPOILER][/QUOTE]Three plates = 1 pipe

[QUOTE=xilman;267803]Three plates = 1 pipe[/QUOTE]

More time needed.
Not surprising for a challenge set by someone who has just
completed a Listener crossword.

A frivolous attempt at "three plates <> 1 pipe":

[SPOILER]3 feet=1 yard mais ceci n'est pas une pipe[/SPOILER]
Or perhaps it is?

Do you remember the "hints" in that silly game show "3-2-1"?

David

[QUOTE=davieddy;267838]More time needed.
Not surprising for a challenge set by someone who has just
completed a Listener crossword.

A frivolous attempt at "three plates <> 1 pipe":

[SPOILER]3 feet=1 yard mais ceci n'est pas une pipe[/SPOILER]
Or perhaps it is?

Do you remember the "hints" in that silly game show "3-2-1"?

David[/QUOTE][spoiler]pipe = yard of tripe[/spoiler]

[QUOTE=xilman;267842][spoiler]pipe = yard of tripe[/spoiler][/QUOTE]
THX
Never knowingly eaten it!

David

PS Now talking it is another matter;)

[QUOTE=bsquared;267798]and so what they were saying made as much sense to me as the web site I linked to :smile:.[/QUOTE]

Have you tried applying this acquired skill to cmd, full[Strike]retard[/Strike]speed, sm88..
...und so weiter?

David

PS Don't mention zee Vor.

[QUOTE=xilman;267842][spoiler]pipe = yard of tripe[/spoiler][/QUOTE]

Which way round would this have been used:

Ask the butcher for a "[SPOILER]pipe[/SPOILER]" or
"I don't swear, don't smoke and don't drink"....
"Oh ****, I've just left my [SPOILER]yard[/SPOILER] in the pub"?

David

Oz version
 

[QUOTE=davieddy;267838]
A frivolous attempt at "three plates <> 1 pipe":

[SPOILER]3 feet=1 yard mais ceci n'est pas une pipe[/SPOILER]
Or perhaps it is?
[/QUOTE]

An earlier attempt was:
[SPOILER]3 feet = 1 yard = stride(s) = drainpipe(s)[/SPOILER]