Simplicity is the Key to Successful Living...

On the other hand I think that, being from the country, they just heard it wrong when someone from the city passed through - kind of like people saying "I'm Brassic", which means nothing, whereas every cockney knows it's "Boracic".

i didn't know this, cool...

"The term boracic lint, or often just "boracic", pronounced "brassic", is also used as Cockney rhyming slang for having no money. Boracic lint -> skint."