Moan, Moan, Moan - 2011

[Anthony Darby]

Well, go on then but only if I get paid a salary for all three posts!

President of Yorkshire then? 

Not on your life. Who could rule that lot

"All the world's queer, except thee and me, and even thee", as my Grandmother used to say, as we delivered the "Daily Worker".

[Gerry Webster]

I think I've been away from Yorkshire to leave one idiom behind: "what's yours is mine, and what's mine's my own".

Too long away Anthony, & too genteel:

"What's thine's mine and what's mine's  me own" (Leeds c. 1950)

I forgot the punch line:
"And if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thi'sen."

[Lesley Cox]

Not to mention "they're all oot o' step but oor Johnnie" as soldiers marched off to war.

I liked the joke when a woman phoned her husband on his cellphone and warned him to be careful driving as there was some idiot reported as driving the wrong way on the motorway. He replied that it was much worse then that. There were hundreds of them!

[David Nicholson]

Well, go on then but only if I get paid a salary for all three posts!

President of Yorkshire then? 

Not on your life. Who could rule that lot

"All the world's queer, except thee and me, and even thee", as my Grandmother used to say, as we delivered the "Daily Worker".

"All the world's queer except thee and me, and I'm not reight sure about thee"

[Anthony Darby]

There was a man from Huddersfield....

[ranunculus]

There was a man from Huddersfield....

               ‘Ode to Nicho’

There was a man from Huddersfield,
With two flat caps and thus well-heeled,
Who drove his sheep from vale to moor,
Over brook and fell, o’er hill and tor.

His one intention, proud and strong,
To graze that grass that grew so long,
On a neighbour’s land that skirted his,
And neighbour’s wife, to steal a kiss.

Said neighbour, narked on both intents,
Threw stones and clods over joining fence,
Our cheery chappy ne’er hurt to heaven,
Just upped sticks and went to Devon!

[Anthony Darby]

There was a man from Huddersfield
who had a cow that wouldn't yield.
The reason why it wouldn't yield
is it didn't like its udders feeled!

[Brian Ellis]

Ah, Gerry, when I was young it was:

Eat all, sup all, pay nowt,
Hear all, see all, say nowt,
And if tha does owt for nowt
Allus do it for this'en

[Gerry Webster]

I only vaguely remember that one Brian. But it's over 50 years since I left God's Own County.

[annew]

Correct, Bryan! Although we strive to achieve this lofty ideal, we never quite manage.

[David Nicholson]

Word perfect Brian.

I liked that one Clifford Wordsworth Booker. When I get a minute, and feel of poetic mind, I shall respond. It might take a while but I shall respond

[Anthony Darby]

Me: if I've got two, one's yours!

That's very sporting of you, Anthony.... I'd like Lucy, please. 

Send me the postage................only kidding. Alas, we only have one Lucy.

[Darren]

OK - just a quick moan to get this off my chest:

After working hard with no holidays for months I come down with a cold 4 days before christmas and on the very day I finish work. I just started to recover from this and then managed to upset my dodgy knee last night so I'm going to be hobbling around for a couple of days, THEN this morning I woke up with conjunctivitis in my left eye and we had to go round to the pharmacist for some antibiotic eye-drops.

OK - I feel better now I've had a rant. I'd better log off before I manage to hurt my typing fingers or something.

Thanks.

[art600]

     All together - aaaaah 

[Maggi Young]

Aaaaaaaah-tishoo!





Not that I can moan about a cold because, as you know, my whole life is a holiday as I sit here day after day......
 Moan? Who? Me?