stevefromdonny wrote:Mikhail Chigorin wrote:john68 wrote:ruralblue wrote:I have Ebola this morning. Went to bed a little shaky and all lemsipped up woke silly o' clock with the fever. It's really not ad bad as they make out just feels a tad like mild flu.
Yer daft Yarksher git....you've got 'TOMBOLA'....Yer must have got it from a bingo hall in Skipton.
Go placidly Rural.
As one Tyke to another, I advise you to rise above these frustrated attempts at humour from the short-fingered denizens who have the undue misfortune to inhabit the regions to the west of our Pennines. It's just a land populated by taxi drivers, taxidermists and others who are just, basically, taxing (Thaksin Shinawatra springs to mind) and it's not their fault really.
When we, of God's own County, set up the Independent People's Republic of Greater Yorkshire, they'll all be knocking on our doors, asking if they can join us and they won't be making such taunting comments at that stage.
As I say; just go placidly, be the bigger (Yorkshire) man and refrain from mocking the poor afflicted.
nobody and I mean nobody can come to gods own county unless they bring money and lots of it, and if you don't stay away
Historically speaking Steve, they've never been able to stay away and that's why, to this day, our neighbours to the west of the Pennines all have short fingers.
This is not because of any inbreeding concerns , or even something afoot in the waters there, but, rather, because of a process which has gone on for centuries.
From time immemorial, our erstwhile neighbours have tried to climb up the slopes of the Pennines, in order to get to the top and gaze longingly at the wonderland that is Yorkshire below them and, if chance permitted, to gain unwanted access to our beloved territory.
Just as they would reach the summit and put their fingers over the topmost ridge to pull themselves up, cunning little Tykes would hide on our side of the border and chop their fingers off with their hatchets. These cunning little Tykes would then chuckle as they watched our unfortunate neighbours slide back down the slopes from whence they came.
This ongoing process has resulted, today, in the phenomenon of their truncated digits and is just one more example of how we Tykes are tops.
Irrefutable fact.