Rhyming slang used at London ATMs

Posted by Gary Martin on August 26, 2009 at 08:19

In Reply to: Rhyming slang used at London ATMs posted by ESC on August 25, 2009 at 20:54:

: It rhymes this time: Slang used at London ATMs
: Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press Writer, Aug 24, 2009

: LONDON ï¿½ You'd better get ready to use your loaf if you want to get your hands on some bread.

: Over the next three months a cluster of East London ATMs will be offering customers the chance to withdraw cash using written prompts in Cockney rhyming slang, the area's colorful and often impenetrable dialect.
: ATMs run by a company called Bank Machine offer a language option allowing customers to enter their "Huckleberry Finn" instead of their PIN, and rather worryingly informs them that the machine is reading their "bladder of lard" at a prompt about examining their card

Nice publicity stunt for the bank but, as a local resident pointed out, "It's pointless, real Cockneys keep our money under the mattress."