BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: GUEST,Mike Cahill
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 05:14 AM

As a Lancastrian who came to Castleford in 79 in a vain attempt to bring civilisation to the Yorkists, I can confirm that they are ALL quite mad,(but harmless)

If you shake a bridle over a Yorkshiremans grave, he'll get up and steal the horse.(a bit of Lancashire wisdom)

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Tone d' F
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 09:23 AM

tha's all puddled, tha want's ta get thi sen downt pub that'll cure thystrange natterin'

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Ruthie A
Date: 19 Jan 01 - 11:57 AM

But I do recruit people to be called Richard! Unfortunately, I am sadly lacking in the tadpole department. I'll have to do something about that.

Ruthie

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Terry K
Date: 20 Jan 01 - 02:39 AM

Shag sheep? - of course Yorkshiremen shag sheep - that's how you get Lancastrians.

Cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: okthen
Date: 20 Jan 01 - 03:39 AM

I muat have been mad to have read all the way through this,I think I'll have a lay down.

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Kc
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 11:10 AM

U mad fools, U R all just proving Ur madness by reading, and then actually replying to this. I can't talk cos i posted it.

All for the white rose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An my friend here agrees, even though he isn't a yorkie.

Luv 2 the world *only kidding, its not the 70's all over again

Sorry to all U who were here for that

Kc

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: wildlone
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 02:11 PM

Doncaster in Yorkshire? hardly, When I was up in Helmsley a few years back and said I had been to Yorkshire before, near Doncaster I was told "dont think that Doncaster is anything to do with Yorkshire"
dave of the Red Rose

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: GUEST,Ickle dorritt
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 06:04 PM

Audrey has returned from Cleethorpes sporting a tan and a new pair of gills -(I don't know no sooner are they spawn and the next moment .... (deep sigh). Anyway I can confirm that Doncaster is no longer in Yorkshire as it is now indeed a suburb of Norwich. I can confirm this after standing for many years on the platform of Doncaster station thinking that I was in the back of beyond and was never going to make it to Hull!

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 04:08 PM

Ickle: you mean, you didn't realise you'd arrived?

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: lostbunny
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 02:07 PM

Ruthie once recruited me to be called Richard. It's perfectly true. Admittedly it was about a year ago. People probably don't do it any more. It was clearly a fad.

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: bobby's girl
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 05:32 PM

I can vouch for the fact that Ruthie is completely barking, having had her to stay in my house for a week! However, even though I have lived in Dorset for nearly 16 years, I too am a Yorkie, and therefore mad by definition!

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 20 Jan 02 - 05:42 PM

Mad? Hah!

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 03:09 AM

There are only two sorts of folk - Yorkies, and those who wish they were. It's our modesty, not our eccentricity, that others find so appealing...

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 10:54 AM

Absolutely, Greycap. After all, its like winning First Prize in the Lottery of Life.

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: lostbunny
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 11:42 AM

Actually I kind of agree. I'm from the south (dare I say it?) but have lived in York for the past three years and I'm not planning on leaving...

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: mooman
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 12:02 PM

Greycap,

I thought there was actually three types of people...

Yorkies, those who wish they were and those with no ambition at all!

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 01:01 PM

You can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you cannot him much.

Told to me by a Yorkshire lass. Lived with her for 10 years, which was 10 years too long.

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Ned Ludd
Date: 21 Jan 02 - 06:35 PM

We're not mad! Aardvark FISH.

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Abuwood
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 03:31 PM

It wasn't since I married this southerner that I realised what serious language difficulties there are! For instance what in East Yorkshire terms a ginnel? Being mafted? Got a spell? Fell over the sink? Or in West Yorkshire terms snap? caussing? bab? In Birmingham the latter is a term of endearment, very confusing for toddlers new to the area!

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 22 Jan 02 - 04:34 PM

Not sure on caussing, is it the same as Barnsley caussey?

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 23 Jan 02 - 09:21 AM

A ginnel in Hull is a tenfoot, but it's too cold to be mafted. I'm nithered, me.

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 08:36 AM

I should also point out that in Hull, your snap is your packing-up.

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Abuwood
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 03:46 AM

We used to play in't tenfoot, I forgot that one, that's a new one to confuse my hubby thanks Les

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Abuwood
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 03:48 AM

We used to play in't tenfoot, I forgot that one, that's a new one to confuse my hubby thanks Les. Is there no-one else who gets spell's in their fingers? The kids I taught thought that that meant I was a witch

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Willa
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 01:53 PM

Tenfoot in Hull, but in the posher parts (Haltemprice?) they're called snickets.

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: gnomad
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 02:32 PM

If you slip across to Licolnshire you'll find tenfoots (no not tenfeet) suddenly become eightfoots in Grimsby, but strangely they seem the same size.

Somebody needs to measure maybe.

Can't check for myself, round here they're called entries and wouldn't count.

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 Jan 02 - 06:23 AM

Seems there are dielect difficulties within Yorkshire as well.
Who here is nesh? Are they thralled?
Happen.
dare we mention why temporary traffic lights all over UK no longer bear the sign "Wait while red light shows"?
perfectly understandable in most parts but in Yorkshire "while" means "UNTIL"! It took a few accidents and court cases to remind London that the rest of the UK speaks differently (to them & to each other).
Happen so!!!

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 28 Jan 02 - 04:25 PM

Mr Red

Nice story, but I'd be interested to know when and whereabouts in Yorkshire the accidents were. Sources in the Department of Transport tell me that signs saying "When red light shows wait here" have been used for more than a quarter of a century. But of course Yorkshire people have long memories.

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Mr Red
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 01:40 PM

Kitty
So do people from the Black Country.
The story I heard was on the BBC on Radio 2 and may have been more than 25 years ago which itself was referring to history (unspecified). I remember the road signs, and remeber them changing the words, and I'm only 29 (Oh OK turned 35) **BG**.
You can just imagine a teen boy racer chancing his arm, and pointing to the verbiage in his defence when Mr Plod got out notebook & licked his pencil. I remember it as Manchester but that may have been in the Barnsley suburb (**BBG**), you know how metrocentric DJ's navigate.
BTW is Herga an FC thing?

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:08 PM

Mr Red - the Herga Folk Club is where I should have been last night instead of posting here, but I was practising for a gig tonight with Les Sullivan at Uxbridge. Herga, being located in the London Borough of Harrow,is somewhat short of members from Yorkshire at the moment (it's a bit of a trek down the motorway, although one former member did actually drive down from Ilkley for a particular guest and drive straight back after). We do occasionally still see Tim Brooks (writer of So Far from Home and the Devil and York Minster) and our Christmas parties are not complete without his rendition of why each Christmas tree has a fairy on top and why Santa's beard is quite white.

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 12:38 PM

Kitty, So Herga FC is Mondays but you didn't mention the Pub. The Devil & York Minster - don't hear it much now but it was regularly heard in the Somers FC years ago, when Dave Webber was a regular, (even on t'committee for a spell). Did the member from Ilkley Moor come "bar t'tat?"

Subject: RE: BS: R all the Yorkshires Mad, or is it me?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 30 Jan 02 - 03:13 PM

Mr Red - I was trying to stay on thread but Herga meets at the Royal Oak, Peel Road, Wealdstone. Thanks to road improvements it's now quite difficult to find, even for people who live in London, like Peta Webb, never mind mad folk from Yorkshire and other parts. We have a website, and a how to get there map is at

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/close/xqu58/herga/hergamap.htm

should you ever happen this way on a Monday (not Bank Holidays.

Kitty