I was about to take the apples and pairs and realized that I didn't have any; therefore, I shall shuffle down the corregidor in order to reach my skein of thread...Goodnight, cor blimey:)
Back in the sixties I was going out with someone who used a lot of cockney rhyming slang. Frog and toad - road. George Elrick - chick. But now people wouldn't know who George Elrick was. I hadn't heard of him then!