A for Orses

[skyring]

Stolen from Fancy'orse

Talent Verscence Art thou God's sake Mism Miles 'Orses Red Mism Red Rential Or Moment Williams Two 'Orses Red Rential Two Consent Talent Williams, Miles God's sake Relief Art thou 'Orses Red Rential Relief 'Orses Williams Two Or Talent Two Two God's sake Art thou God's sake Mism Moment Leather Talent La France Or Oranges God's sake Mism Moment Red 'Orses Leather.

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[holmesfan.livejournal.com]

?????????

[skyring.livejournal.com]

OK. Give you a hint. Fancyhorse has the same message - a little easier.

Another hint. Jay is the hardest one: Jay for Oranges.

[fancyhorse.livejournal.com]

Hmmm ... I can't crack your code. Your clues didn't help.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

It's phonetic. A for Orses, B for Mutton, C for Miles...

[fancyhorse.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I still don't get it. Is it Cockney slang?

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Not on yer nellie!

It's like a phonetic alphabet, see? Dee for Rential. Ee for Or, Eff for Vescence, Gee for Gosh sake!

[cathepsut.livejournal.com]

Maybe if I had another coffee... I am so confused!

[cathepsut.livejournal.com]

Ok, I get differential and effervescence and then I am fresh out...

[appleshoelace.livejournal.com]

Gosh, you must have spent ages coming up with that!

eye for talent, effervescence, whyfore art thou (shouldn't it be 'wherefore'??), oh for God's sake, euphemism, see for miles, 'ay for 'orses, infrared (that must be your Australian accent making 'en' sound like 'in'!), euphemism, infrared, differential (and also your Australian accent making 'di' sound like 'dee'), er... can't get 'ee for or', 'alf a moment, ess for williams? (some famous person? Esther Williams?), tea for two, 'ay for 'orses, infrared, differential... gosh, this takes forever! I'm going to stop now. But I'm guessing 'jaffa oranges' is what you mean by the hardest one.

[appleshoelace.livejournal.com]

Or is 'e' just 'eeyore' without the 'for' in between?

[appleshoelace.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I'm hooked. I like solving codes. So I'm continuing...

tea for two, age of consent, eye for talent, Esther Williams, see for miles, oh for God's sake, pee for relief, whyfore art thou, 'ay for 'orses, inrafred, differential, pee for relief, 'ay for 'orses, Esther Williams, tea for two, eeyore, eye for talent, tea for two, tea for two, oh for God's sake, whyfore art thou, oh for God's sake, euphemism, 'alf a moment (btw, this one won't work for most American accents!), 'ell for leather, eye for talent, vive la France, eeyore, jaffa oranges, oh for God's sake, euphemism, 'alf a moment, infrared, 'ay for 'orses, 'ell for leather.

There.

Now do 'the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog'! :-P

[fancyhorse.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's puns. I never would have guessed but for cathepsut and appleshoelace! (Especially appleshoelace)

Did you make this up yourself, Pete? Very clever!

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Well done!

Ee for or, yeah it's not a good one. Either/Or.
Yes on Jaffa oranges.
It's silly and kind of logical. A reaction to the phonetic alphabets that appeared in WW2: A for Able, B for Baker...

I used to be a signalman during my days in the University Regiment, and I'd practise reciting the real phonetic alphabet out loud on my way to and from uni each day. It was a fairly long walk through the bush and I'd speak them out loud to myself, occasionally running into a cyclist or someone coming the other way at a corner, puzzled by the stream of nonsense words.

Later on, I memorised The Ballad of Eskimo Nell the same way, with even more potential for embarrassment,

[skyring.livejournal.com]

A for orses
b for mutton
c for miles
d for rential (d for Kate)
e for or (e for Braun)
f for vescence (f for lump)
g for gosh sakes (g for police)
h for consent (h for respect)
i for talent (i for Novello)
j for oranges (j for nice time)
k for ancis (Kay Francis was an actress in the long ago) (k for restaurant)
l for leather (I really like this one)
m for sema (m for cream)
n for red (n for lope)
o for crying out loud (o for the rainbow)
p for relief
q for hours
r for mo(ment)
s for Williams
t for two (t for gums)
u for mism
v for La France
w for nothing (w for a zac)
x for breakfast
y for art thou (y for mistress)
z for a light breeze

[skyring.livejournal.com]

c for thighlanders
d for mation
e for Peron
i for lutin'
k for teria
m for sis
n for a penny, n for dig
p for ming fleas
q for a song
u for instance

now that I look, there's several scattered around the internet.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/at-last-the-truth-about-the-alphabet-has-come-to-me-1045223.html
and
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/fools-and-their-alphabets-are-copiously-parted-1045423.html

[appleshoelace.livejournal.com]

Hehe - I like 'm for sema'. And I think I prefer 'n for lope' to 'n for red', phonetically-wise. And looking at your next post, I prefer 'e for Peron' to 'e for or'. See, I was assuming Australian pronunciation, so it wouldn't occur to me that 'f' could be representing a 'th'!

I thought you'd made them up, but I guess they've been around for years. It makes sense that it's a British invention though, with all the dropped h's, and 'r for moment' pronunciation - and just the general silliness of it! :-)

[skyring.livejournal.com]

It's the ridiculousity I love!

[newkaligula.livejournal.com]

one day when I retire, I may come back to it.

[holmesfan.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm well past retirement and I don't want a bar of it, thanks all the same.
Perhaps SR shd get a day job!

Edited to add
- I much prefer his real writing.