Michael Moore Porky Pies
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?
How could you forget Moore sitting in front of so persistent an interviewer as Piers Morgan, a journalist trained in fifty different ways of asking the same question, only to deny that he’s a part of the problem against which the Occupy Wall Street is protesting, a movement which Moore, with a