HAPPY Yorkshire Day

Subject: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: muppett
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 11:58 AM

Eh Up everyone Happy Yorkshire Day, how yer celebrating it?

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:04 PM

I thowt I might tek the coal out of t'bath and give t'whippet a rub down with mi cloth cap!

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:06 PM

Sitting here reading Mudcat and trying to find somebody who sells methanol so I can maybe make biodeisel and save a fortune in car fuel.
Later I might have a lie down after I've checked how long my pockets are.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: muppett
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:09 PM

Nay Mr. Fromull, you'd be bar tat then, then you'd catch yer death of cold & we'd ave t' bury thee, then T'worms and Ducks would feast on thee, then Ducks would get eaten and we'd all ave eaten thee, by eck no wot a thought, keep yer at on.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:17 PM

We're not eating him!
He's too stringy...
Quack!
Geoff the Duck

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: GerryMc
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:21 PM

Except Ilkley Moor is on fire and you can't get anywhere near it

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:23 PM

Prob'ly wearn't need 'is 'at then.

Quack!
GtD

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: skipy
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:39 PM

No time tut selibrate, goin to 'ide 'int coil oil fromt rent man.
Skipy

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:52 PM

Aye - get sum muck slapped on t'winders!

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Mr Red
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 01:22 PM

'appen

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 01:55 PM

Might go on eBay - get some E Bay Gum...

I'll get me coit...

Quack!
GtD

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 02:04 PM

Bloody ARSE!

Ah've 'ad other things on me mind (such as it is) & th'date slipped past me...most important date in't'calendar an' all!

Bloody ARSE!

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:35 PM

85 minutes to go

Get your finger out!

Quack!
GtD

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: bobad
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:38 PM

Does this hve something to do with pudding? Just wondering.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Tig
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:40 PM

Tis more than that 'ere in Yorkshire! 'Ope you as all ad a good one. T'Badger had to go out of God's own county for the day (well he's not Yorkshire anyhow!) on a fact finding mission so I've had a quiet one.

Love and hugs to all Yorkshire Folk
Tig
xxxxxx

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: bobad
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:41 PM

And how come you all talk funny?

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:43 PM

Always!
Pudding on the style.

The Ridings Society

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: bobad
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:46 PM

Well, Happy Yorkshire Day to you all then!

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:52 PM

The Yorkshire National Anthem - by Jim Jarratt, the man from Wibsey Slack.

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Folkiedave
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:13 PM

No sure how to celebrate.

Might have a pint I suppose.

Which reminds me here is a test to seek if you are really "Yorkshire".

Two blokes best of friends, share lots of things, meet every night for forty years, one calling at the other's house 9.00 pm on the dot. They go to the pub, have a few pints and come home. Every night.

One night he knocks on the door and the wife comes to the door. "I am sorry" she says, "but he died this afternoon".

"Did he say 'owt about a tin of paint" came the reply.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Soldier boy
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 08:36 PM

Eeee hecky thump I've missed adding my "Hail Yorkshire" to this ere thread in time, but sod it; HAIL YORKSHIRE anyway.

As a bone and bread Yorkshireman I have been very disappointed with the lack of celebration for this day and the lack of coverage and support in the press.

The biggest and best support as a whole region and community I have come across has been in bonny SADDLEWORTH.
At The Saddleworth Folk Festival last weekend the Yorkshire Day flags and banners were all over the place.

People in this area ( previously in Yorkshire but now in Lancashire / Greater Manchester) refuse to accept boundary changes etc and still insist on calling themselves Yorkshire people.

God bless 'em. Once a Yorkshire man/woman, always a Yorkshire man/woman and long may they reign !

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 05:34 AM

You can always tell a Yorkshire man















(retreats to safety of Staffordshire)










But you can not tell him much..............

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:46 AM

Yorkshireman calls round for 'is mate one Sunday dinnertime to go 't pub, 'is missus says 'ay lad, he deed this morning, Yorkie say to her " ee ahm reet sorry to 'ear that lass, what 'appened ? " she replies, " e went down t'garden to get a cabbage for dinner, and e just keeled over an deed "
Oh eck says Yorkie, what'll tha do now ? she says " well we'll probably open a tin of peas ".

eric [ 100% Yorkshire ]

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:48 AM

I was hoping we might get some fraternal greetings from that county to the left of us (the name of which escapes me). But it did seem to be slightly falling down on its job of keeping the weather of us as some rain did actually fall on God's Chosen Acres during our National Day.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: skipy
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 08:22 AM

ok, ok, I'm Lacashire born, so Happy Yorkshire day!
Skipy

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 08:28 AM

The REAL YORKSHIRE only exists east of Hull of course, the western side is a bit Lancashire-ish!
            Flamenco, the true path!

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 08:29 AM

Thanks, mate. It's good of you to confess it. We all have our cross to bear! Not all of those heavily-pregnant women herded over the Pennines made it successfully, I know.

I know it's a bit early but let me be the first to wish you Happy Lancashire Day!

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Folkiedave
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 09:05 AM

Copycats

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 10:03 AM

...I'm thinking of going one further and starting a CLECKHEATON DAY, we are in the centre of the country and therefore of huge strategic importance, should be worth one day off out of every week! say a Friday?

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Raggytash
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 10:28 AM

True Yorkshire only to the East of Hull eh? Is that why they're a bit wet, what with floppin' about in the North sea all day

Greeting from one born in Gods county ..... The County Palatine of Lancashire

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 10:35 AM

Them's FEIGHTIN' words!

*strikes exaggerated 'bare-knuckle-type' pose*

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 10:47 AM

Actually Nick there is another 'twice five miles of fertile ground' twixt us in Hull and the North Sea. And if you're claiming that God owns Lancashire you'll need an apostrophe in there. The way you've got it you've a multiplicity of gods (no more than we could expect - that's why our kid's over there doin' missionary work).

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 10:55 AM

Thats tellin' 'im Les!

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: GUEST,the Dewsbury Sage
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 03:32 AM

if global warming continues, Hull will soon be a tidal beach with high water mark near Leeds. Thinking Yorkies should mobilise and reposess the lost enclaves of Dent, Saddleworth, Barnoldswick, Kellbrook, Earby etc. As compensation the Lankies could take back their former posessions on the north side of Morecambe Bay and so on.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 09:04 AM

Committed Yorkies have never given up those enclaves (actually they are border areas rather than enclaves). We still regard the traditional borders of the county as Yorkshire. Administrative Areas are different. Humberside was a County Council covering part of Yorkshire and part of Lincolnshire and was never going to change our proud traditions. Same for the Lancies - see the website clickies. There used to be a href="http://hullshire.quickseek.com/">Hullshire administrative area
And, of course, the River Humber (too thick to drink, too thin to plough) provides us with lovely tidal beaches here in Hull. It's just that mud hasn't really caught on yet!

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Les from Hull
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 09:06 AM

Sorry, here's that link again Hullshire

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 03:49 PM

I spent the day at work readdressing and transferring 104 files/computer records to Sunny Skipton... I could type the blasted address out blindfold and in my sleep. I even dreamed of 't Grange last night!

All 104 had the same name, just a different number after it... oh joy.

LTS

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 02:43 PM

104 Arkwrights eh?
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 02:55 PM

Soldier Boy, I ouhgt to point out that Saddleworth is a part of Yorkshire. It was because of confusions caused during and by local government reorganisations that the Ridings Society was founded. Yorkshire day was then instituted to celebrate the true boundaries of this, England's largest county.
It is in part explained in The Yorkshire Code (I think it translates as "Bugger Da Vinci!").
It is also explained by The Association of British Counties, who point out that other peoples' counties have been subjected to confusion over boundaries.
Essentially Yorkshire (and all the other historic counties -insert name here.....) is still Yorkshire (or insert name....) and will continue to be despite any fleeting administration reorganisations.
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: HAPPY Yorkshire Day
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 03:05 PM

Liz - perhaps next week you can look forward to a week full of Butsons follwed by Calvert, Dawson and Earnshaw (A fine name for a firm of solicitors).
Quack!
GtD.