| Olivia! Sample 2: In town. Dodger and Badger are eyeing up a potential pickpocket victim. |
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DOD Arz abart im over there? BAD What? DOD Im! The geezer wiv the Johnny Cash! BAD The what? DOD The Johnny Cash! Tash! Looks like e’s wearin a syrup an’ all. BAD Syrup? DOD Syrup of fig! Wig! Don’t you know nuffin? BAD I know you’re talking nonsense! DOD Not nonsense! It’s not nonsense, it’s rhyming slang! Cockney rhyming slang! Apples an pears, stairs. Plates o’ meat, feet. Ruby Murray, curry! London talk, innit? BAD You’re not from London. You’re from Barton. DOD That’s not the point, is it? I’m a geezer, ain’t I? A trickster! Bit o’ this, bit o’ that, know what I mean bruvva? BAD Don’t be ridiculous. Let’s face it, you’re a thief. A pickpocket. From Barton. And you’re putting on a silly voice in a pathetic attempt to impress people. DOD I ain’t! BAD You are! And it’s ‘I’m not!’, not ‘I ain’t!’ DOD Aaar, leave it art, willya? BAD Anyway, I take it you want us to pick the pocket of that chap over there with the moustache. DOD Yerrr, not arf! (gets ugly look from BADGER, so reverts to his normal voice) Sorry. Yes I do. BAD Right. I’ll distract him, you do the business. Any problems, I’ll meet you at the usual place in half an hour. DOD Right.
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