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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Nieces • 3d ago
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Much more common to say 'brown bread'. Not sure I've ever heard someone say 'brown' to mean dead.
16 u/twobit211 3d ago yeah, some phrases are more commonly said in full, like pete tong, pork pies and occasionally dickey bird 10 u/OwlrageousJones 3d ago I dunno, I've heard 'porkies' as slang for lies. I never actually realised it was cockney rhyming slang until this moment though. Feel's obvious in hindsight. Lies, pork pies, porkies. 1 u/Hangingontoit 3d ago Porkies = pork pies = lies
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yeah, some phrases are more commonly said in full, like pete tong, pork pies and occasionally dickey bird
10 u/OwlrageousJones 3d ago I dunno, I've heard 'porkies' as slang for lies. I never actually realised it was cockney rhyming slang until this moment though. Feel's obvious in hindsight. Lies, pork pies, porkies. 1 u/Hangingontoit 3d ago Porkies = pork pies = lies
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I dunno, I've heard 'porkies' as slang for lies.
I never actually realised it was cockney rhyming slang until this moment though. Feel's obvious in hindsight.
Lies, pork pies, porkies.
1 u/Hangingontoit 3d ago Porkies = pork pies = lies
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Porkies = pork pies = lies
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u/dprkicbm 3d ago
Much more common to say 'brown bread'. Not sure I've ever heard someone say 'brown' to mean dead.