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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 1 2006, 05:16 AM (325 Views) | |
| John D'Oh | Aug 1 2006, 05:16 AM Post #1 |
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What's so special about Yorkshire? Yorkshire day I'm a Lancastrian, but even so I absolutely love Yorkshire. I love the people, I love the places, I REALLY love the beer. It's like nowhere else on earth.
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| Phlebas | Aug 1 2006, 05:26 AM Post #2 |
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Mmmmm. Yorkshire pudding. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| justme | Aug 1 2006, 06:21 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If I ever make it to merry olde England, I would love to see York. I think I'd prefer to see York more than I would London. I have no idea why. |
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| George K | Aug 1 2006, 06:24 AM Post #4 |
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(rephrased so that John and others can understand) If I evyr make it to merrye olde Englande, I would love to see Yorke. I think I'd prefer to see Yorke more than I would Londonne. I have no idea whye. (just adding unnessary vowels) |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Aug 1 2006, 06:27 AM Post #5 |
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Yeah, I was just gonna say, they have that pudding. ...That's, not like pudding at all, really. |
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| John D'Oh | Aug 1 2006, 06:29 AM Post #6 |
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George, I don't speak like Henry VIII, even if I do look a little like him. In North country dialect, it would be more correct to say: 'Bye 'eck, lad, I reckon ahm gonna go t'capital in't summer. Not t' poncy Southern-poofter capital, mind, but proper cap'tal, York. It's reet gradely, ant pubs stay open 'til all hours. |
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| George K | Aug 1 2006, 06:31 AM Post #7 |
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What language was that? Strine? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| justme | Aug 1 2006, 06:35 AM Post #8 |
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Thank you, George! I've always been fascinated with the Wars of the Roses. And, have sided with the Yorkists. I think it's Micklegate Bar I would like to see the most. I know it's sick but I have a perverse desire to imagine what it would be like for a young Edward to see his father's, younger brother's and uncle's heads displayed there. I would like to see York Minster as well. |
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| phykell | Aug 1 2006, 06:49 AM Post #9 |
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I'm from Cheshire myself and as such it's my duty to inform you all that as John D'Oh is from Lancashire, he's a pie eater and a sheep worrier. He drives a clapped-out old Land Rover, has jerry cans full of red diesel, and wears wellies to bed. His Lancashire wife has bigger biceps than him, wrinkly stockings and he probably wears a woolly cap. John and his like will be forever in the shadow of the archetypal Yorkshiremen immortalised in "Last of the Summer Wine". His favourite kids' program was "Chorlton & the Wheelies" and his hero is the late Fred Dibnah (as it should be TBH)...
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated. - Ghandhi Evil cannot be conquered in the world. It can only be resisted within oneself. Remember, bones heal and chicks dig scars | |
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| John D'Oh | Aug 1 2006, 06:50 AM Post #10 |
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[size=14]WHAT?????!!!![/size] I like to visit the funny little back-water from time to time, but SIDED WITH THE YORKISTS! Holy mother of pearl and may the saints preserve the dead little princes in the tower. That's just not done.
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| John D'Oh | Aug 1 2006, 06:55 AM Post #11 |
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Cheshire. CHESHIRE! At least in Lancashire we only worry the sheep. I once saw Cheshire play cricket. My God, what a performance. It was very reminiscent of the scene in Star Wars Episode III where Annakin kills all the younglings. |
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| George K | Aug 1 2006, 07:06 AM Post #12 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| sue | Aug 1 2006, 07:10 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Is Yorkshire where 'All Creatures Great and Small' was filmed? ![]() beautiful looking place. I don't get the 'wrinkly sock' thing, though.
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| John D'Oh | Aug 1 2006, 07:21 AM Post #14 |
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Oh, the insults are coming in thick and fast now. For the information of everybody here, 'worrying' sheep is a noble and ancient pastime and does not, I repeat NOT, involve physical contact of any kind. Australians, Welshmen and apparently those who live to the South of Lancashire do not 'worry' sheep. Lets face it, it's hard for the sheep to get too worried when it's first taken out for a candle-lit dinner and then plied with medicinal alcohol before being taken home and played 'Barry White's Greatest Hits' before finally succumbing to the tender charms of the delightful country bumpkin who has worked so hard to achieve this magical and tender moment. |
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| AlbertaCrude | Aug 1 2006, 07:36 AM Post #15 |
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Both my father's parents were born and raised in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorks. My father grew up speaking Yorkshire dialect at home and to this day at the ripe age of 87, still comes up with expressions and phrases when conversing with his older brother that are incomprehensible to the uninitiated. In normal conversation it is quite common for him to dispense altogether with definite and indefinite articles. |
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| John D'Oh | Aug 1 2006, 07:39 AM Post #16 |
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:lol: |
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| AlbertaCrude | Aug 1 2006, 07:49 AM Post #17 |
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I knew you'd appreciate that. |
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| phykell | Aug 1 2006, 08:19 AM Post #18 |
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Aye, and Lancashire men *are* sheep worriers but t'were an inventive lot. T'was them that first wore t'velcro gloves and lined sheep up at t'cliff edge. ![]() Sue, the wrinkly stockings refer to one of the characters in "Last of the Summer Wine" and her baggy stockings which Compo, who I now like to think of as John D'Oh, found so appealing. And now for the people who sometimes don't understand what John D'Oh is actually saying: I'll go to the foot of our stairs - "Wow!" If he fell off t'top of t'Co-Op roof, he'd land in t'divvy - "Lucky b*gger" Eeh, by 'eck. - "Oh dear" Thar's champion - "Well done" Stone t'crows - "Bloody hell!" |
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| justme | Aug 1 2006, 08:35 AM Post #19 |
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[size=14]BUCKINGHAM DID IT!!!!!!!![/size] for bloody sakes........
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| John D'Oh | Aug 1 2006, 08:55 AM Post #20 |
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Sadly, the recently bereaved Yorkshireman went to see the stone mason about his wife's gravestone. The boss was out but the young apprentice thought that this was the big chance he needed to make his mark and told the widower that he could deal with his request. "Was there any particular wording you wanted on the stone?" the young man asked. "As a matter of fact there is. She was always a devout church going woman and I think she'd like the words 'Lord, she was Thine' on the stone" "No problem," said the young man and he ushered the sad customer out of the shop so he could get on with the work before the boss returned. Later in the day the young man stood back to admire the stone and smiled at his handy work. He phoned up the customer and asked him to come and have a look before he arranged for the stone to be erected. The widower turned up half an hour later and congratulated the youngster on his swift work. Then the elderly man stopped and his jaw dropped. "You silly bu**er he said, you've written 'Lord, she was thin.' You've missed the 'e'" The youngster was very apologetic and asked the man to visit the church yard the next morning where he would be able to see the completed stone with all mistakes rectified, and hopefully before the boss saw it! The next day the old man went to the church yard and collapsed in front of the gravestone which read, "Ee Lord, she was thin" Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties. The first man had married a woman from London, and bragged that he had told his wife she was going to do all the dishes and house cleaning that needed done at their house. He said that he didn't see any difference for a couple of days but on the third day he came home to a clean house and the dishes were all washed and put away. The second man had married a woman from Lancashire. He boasted that he had given his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes, and the cooking. He told them that the first day he didn't see any results, but the next day it was better. By the third day, his house was clean, the dishes were done, and he had a huge dinner on the table. The third man had married a Yorkshire girl. He boasted that he told her that her duties were to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry washed and hot meals on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day most of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye. A Yorkshireman had emigrated to America, but still used to receive news from home by mail. One day, he got the following telegram: 'Regret father died this morning STOP early hours. Funeral Wednesday STOP Yorkshire two hundred and one for six STOP Boycott not out ninety six.' |
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