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Rhyming Slang Sermon
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
The Reverend McFarlane Lang adapts Evensong for a visiting Cockney congregation. Maintaining his solemn delivery, he tells an elaborate parable about an impoverished father, his daughter and a charitable act, replacing ordinary words with rhyming slang. Familiar religious storytelling grows steadily more suggestive as the vocabulary takes over, and an apparently crude incident turns out to have an unexpectedly innocent explanation.
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Highly quotable.
And it came to Khyber Pass.
And the Richard the Third flew back to its nest.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
A recording of this sermon was played at Ronnie Barker’s memorial service in Westminster Abbey on 3 March 2006.
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