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01 Aug 01 - 08:41 AM (#518969) Subject: Yorkshire Day From: GUEST,Roger t' skiffler 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!)
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01 Aug 01 - 09:11 AM (#518988) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Fiolar 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.;-) |
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01 Aug 01 - 12:31 PM (#519117) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Shields Folk I couldn't cope with being a Yorkshireman. Being that proud all your life must be really hard work. |
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01 Aug 01 - 02:40 PM (#519233) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Greycap There are only two sorts of people: Yorkshire folk and those who wish they were.If we have one failing, it's probably modesty. |
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01 Aug 01 - 03:50 PM (#519275) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Linda Kelly Mmm -married to one, lovely man, but the Queen does blink when he opens his wallet! |
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01 Aug 01 - 07:52 PM (#519399) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: bobby's girl 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! |
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02 Aug 01 - 08:39 AM (#519605) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Fiolar I like Yorkshire Pudding. |
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02 Aug 01 - 09:10 AM (#519613) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: GUEST I like Yorkshire girls |
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02 Aug 01 - 02:18 PM (#519830) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: selby 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 |
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02 Aug 01 - 02:35 PM (#519843) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: GUEST Ee by ecky thump, Keith; watch thi spellin', lad. Should be 'sitha', tha knows! Don' want folk thinkin' as 'ow we're iggerant. |
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02 Aug 01 - 03:13 PM (#519866) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Les from Hull We're not iggerant. But we're not that liturate. Tightfisted, not us. That'll be twenty p. Each! Les |
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02 Aug 01 - 03:57 PM (#519893) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Arnie 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) |
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03 Aug 01 - 05:10 AM (#520215) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Fiolar Arnie Is that a different game to the better known one of cricket. :-) |
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04 Aug 01 - 04:22 AM (#520859) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: Long Firm Freddie Question: 'Ow many runs did Sir Geoffrey Boycott score fer England?
Answer: None! 'E scored 'em all fer 'issen! LFF |
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04 Aug 01 - 02:08 PM (#521019) Subject: RE: BS: Yorkshire Day From: John Routledge Lovely to hear your humour again Les. Remembering happy days at The Yorkshire Gathering. Love to all in Yorkshire. Geordie Broon |