BS: Yorkshire Day

Subject: Yorkshire Day
From: GUEST,Roger t' skiffler
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 08:41 AM

So many Yorkshire 'Catters I thought you might like to see this! Start of a story from BBC ONline:

'Sophistication? I've been to Leeds!'

It's the 26th annual Yorkshire Day, by 'eck. But what is it that makes the county worth celebrating, asks Yorkshireman Matt Bennett. Why are people so proud to be from Yorkshire?

Why when a bureaucrat's pen robbed Hull of its Yorkshire status - placing it instead in Humberside - did everyone from the city council down stubbornly defy the boundary makers until their birthright was finally restored?

It seems the rest of the UK sees Yorkshire folk, and their antics, through a series of stereotypes. From James Herriot caricatures to Harry Enfield, Yorkshire people are seen as tight-fisted, straight-talking, whippet-breeding, flat-cap-wearing dour types... (article continues)Wednesday, 1 August, 2001, 11:27 GMT 12:27 UK

RtS (but we had flat caps and whippets in Brum, too!)

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Fiolar
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 09:11 AM

Funny you should mention that Yorkshire folk are tightfisted. I remember camping years ago in County Durham and while talking to one of the locals happened to mention that I had been charged an exorbitent price in a Yorkshire town for a cup of coffee and some toast. He told me that some people around his part of the world regarded the Yorkshire people as skinflints who would get blood out of a stone.;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Shields Folk
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 12:31 PM

I couldn't cope with being a Yorkshireman. Being that proud all your life must be really hard work.

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Greycap
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 02:40 PM

There are only two sorts of people: Yorkshire folk and those who wish they were.If we have one failing, it's probably modesty.

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 03:50 PM

Mmm -married to one, lovely man, but the Queen does blink when he opens his wallet!

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: bobby's girl
Date: 01 Aug 01 - 07:52 PM

y husband only believes in God because God's a Yorkshireman! I keep telling him that she's a Yorkshirewoman, but I'm not sure he's convinced!

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Fiolar
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 08:39 AM

I like Yorkshire Pudding.

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 09:10 AM

I like Yorkshire girls

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: selby
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:18 PM

Hello and happy belated Yorkshire day we where all to busy fueding and fighting to notice that our day had been and gone so to all Yorkshire men and women everywhere hope you all had a good day wearing the only true flower of england the white rose of Yorkshire. i'll setha Keith

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 02:35 PM

Ee by ecky thump, Keith; watch thi spellin', lad. Should be 'sitha', tha knows! Don' want folk thinkin' as 'ow we're iggerant.

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 03:13 PM

We're not iggerant. But we're not that liturate.

Tightfisted, not us. That'll be twenty p. Each!

Les

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Arnie
Date: 02 Aug 01 - 03:57 PM

You can tell a Yorkshireman - but not much.....And on the subject of crickit - why not replace the whole Test team with Yorkshire CC - we'd give the Aussies a better run for their money than Athers and the rest(Caddick can be an honarary Yorkie for the series)

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Fiolar
Date: 03 Aug 01 - 05:10 AM

Arnie Is that a different game to the better known one of cricket. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 04:22 AM

Question: 'Ow many runs did Sir Geoffrey Boycott score fer England?

Answer: None! 'E scored 'em all fer 'issen!

LFF

Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day
From: John Routledge
Date: 04 Aug 01 - 02:08 PM

Lovely to hear your humour again Les. Remembering happy days at The Yorkshire Gathering. Love to all in Yorkshire.

Geordie Broon