Rhyming Slang (was - Re: An interesting bit of trivia)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "eloise_herisson" 
<eloiseherisson at a...> wrote:
> 

Eloise:
> Joining those two subjects together gives you the phrase, "I'm 
cream 
> crackered"....
> 
> Which I suppose will also need explanation <g>.
> A cream cracker is a plain biscuit (British usage) usually eaten 
with 
> cheese. Despite their name, they are renowned for their dryness: 
it's 
> supposed to be impossible to eat more than three or four of them 
> without a drink.

Geoff:
Actually, they're rather nice with a scraping of margarine on and 
some sort of topping - cheese, thin ham etc. Quite often the final 
touch to a meal, with the coffee.

A fairly standard game at a party is to get a volunteer to eat a 
couple of cream crackers and then try to whistle a tune - say a 
Christmas carol or something similar.