'The Limey'

In this film it was butcher's hook = look but I can't remember the other one.

I thought the back and forth editing worked quite well.

A clip of Stamp saying "I'm fucking coming" is what got me watching this.

True, I'm not on the street much. But I've generally heard people using the whole rhyme rather than just part of it. Apples and pears, jack and jill etc.

You've actually heard someone use 'apples and pears'? That seems unlikely! But, yes, only part of the rhyme is generally used.

Nobody at all says “butchers hook”, they say “butchers” and it’s understood

Stamp simply says "butcher's". Also "tea leaves."

Right, like everyone does, as Tom said

So people just say apples for stairs and jack for hill?

No

"Tea leaves" seems to be the exception in that it actually rhymes, not sure if there is another part.

I doubt anyone says 'apples and pears', I've only ever heard that used as a joke version of cockernee rhyming slang. Not sure I've heard of 'jack and jill' for hill ever?

Nobody really uses those phrases any more, but a lot of the ones that are still in semi common usage are shortened. Nobody ever says “Barnet fair”, they say Barnet

(xxp) 'Tea' wouldn't really work, it's too short.

In Jane Busmann's Once In A Lifetime book about Acid House she makes mention of how the oldskool cockney rhyming slang and new drug-speak made for a nice mixture in the late 80s, especially when you'd overhear dealers and such. The one bit she quotes has stayed with me for 20 years
"I'll do biscuits for a cockle, and Archie Moore on the capsules.. "

Soderbergh was obv fond of this gag cause he reused it in oceans 11 when the terrible don cheadle “cockney” character would be like “cor blimey were in Barney now” (everyone stares) “...Barney Rubble” (everyone stares) “...trouble!!”

Has this thread mentioned Barry Newman's fixer character yet?

Oh yeah, Morbius quoted him upthread.

Also some discussion here: Talking Even More Smack In SF

My dad (born London 1928) used to say "up the apple and pears".

As a joke no doubt.

I mean, that's always the expression that is used as a sort of parodic example of rhyming slang. It probably hasn't been used in earnest since the Edwardian era.

I guess any Cockney rhyming slang he used would have been "in quotes" in Canada in the 1970s.

Well, yes.

Soderbergh was obv fond of this gag cause he reused it in oceans 11 when the terrible don cheadle “cockney” character would be like “cor blimey were in Barney now” (everyone stares) “...Barney Rubble” (everyone stares) “...trouble!!”

What do you expect from a septic?

Hard for us to know what is current usage, sorry

Peter Fonda is impressively demonic-looking in this, like his face is about to peel back and reveal a grinning skull at any moment. Kind of fits with how paper-thin almost everything in the movie is, as the screenwriter points out.

this movie is a vibe. it doesn't need to have a lot going on.

Otm. Good description of Peter Fonda’s death’s head look though.

This is on Amazon Prime until the end of December. Can’t watch it too many times.

Feel somewhat similar although haven’t actually watched it that many times. Maybe it will persist on Tubi TV.

I’ve watched it a ton, but not for a very long time. Looking forward to a revisit!

Outstanding film.