Bank Machine, an ATM provider from England, will be using cockney rhyming slang on five of their ATM screens in East London for the next three months, to try to amuse customers. “Readin’ your bladder of lard”, read the message on the screen. It asked for his “Huckleberry Finn”. Then more bewildering questions: did he wanted to see his balance on the Charlie Sheen? Did he wish to change his Huckleberry Finn or did he simply require sausage and mash, with or without a receipt?” Roy Parker, 62, a bona fide Cockney, who works behind the counter of a mini-cab firm next to one of the cockney ATMs noticed a major flaw in the idea however.
“Real Cockneys don’t have bank accounts or all that palava,” he said. “They put it under the mattress.”
