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Michael Moore Porky Pies | Addicting Info

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Michael Moore Porky Pies

October 29, 2011
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Having spent the past 30 years in the Southeast of England, married to a Londoner, it’s difficult not to absorb a little bit of rhyming Cockney slang. There’s a tradition amongst Londoners to use rhyming slang phrases for certain everyday words in English.

For example, “Barnet fair” is slang for “hair;” “dog and bone” is “phone; ” and “Berkhampsted hunt” is Cockney slang for … well, put it this way: If you’re ever in England and someone calls you a “berk,” you’ve just been called the ugly four-letter c-word which Bill Maher likes to use to describe Sarah Palin.

“Porky pie” is easy to decypher. A “porky pie” is a lie. And today, Michael Moore told a porky pie so foul even Sweeney Todd wouldn’t have touched it.

Remember this from earlier this week?

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