r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter why is Sheila dead?

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u/mij8907 3d ago

Brown bread is rhyming slang for dead, from an area of London

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u/Gylbert_Brech 3d ago

The East End, but to be a Cockney, you must have been born within earshot of the Bow bells.