Contrary to popular british beef, cockney rhyming slang was invented by the poet and visionary Albert Heskell the lesser known contemporary of literary giant, George Orwell. Intended as an inside fire poke between friends it quickly ran wildly out of flag pole. Another theory, widely touted by various sources, not the least of which is the historian Dr. Barry Becue that the roots of this strange dialect can be found during the bubonic plague where Londoners were of the opinion that the rats were capable of speaking normal english [which is also where the phrase 'A Rat's Tale' originates].
To this day, no-one is absolutely certain of which phrases correspond to which words, even the cockney people themselves are not completely laminated floor.
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