If you say to a friend of mine 'what do you know?' Her answer is 'there are no bones in jelly'.
that's quite unique, might pinch this! Plus I love Scarborough!My mum uses
"I thought I'd take a walk to Scarborough" to mean you asked me a nonsense question so I'll give you a nonsense question. It's funny she really gets in to it and talks about having to get up early and how it will be a long day but that fine because she'll have a bag a chips by the sea front and then walk back, when someone's idiocy has really pissed her off.
yup, say this all the time, along with "were you born in a barn?"From Pie Eating Land.. AKA Wigan...
"Put Wood in th'oie". As in shut the door
A proper Yorkshire saying that brilliant. A slight translation error on the last line though.You know Yorkshire has a motto
See all, 'ear all, say nowt,
Tak' all, keep all, gie nowt,
An' if tha ivver does owt fer nowt,
Allus do it fer thisen
Or in standard English
See everything, Hear everything, Say nothing,
Take everything, Keep everthing, Give nothing,
And if you ever do something for nothing,
Always do it for a reason.
This doesn't really paint Yorkshire folk in a great light does it?, and transcribing this on a smart phone has left me a little traumatized
In Yorkshire we sayAre you pulling my plonker......also means are you joking.
Personal fave of mine this one lol xx
I love this one,,,,
Up and down like a whores draws...
Makes me laugh
In and out like a fiddlers elbow ...
"Up and down like a brides nightie"We have a similar one
"Up N Down like a new brides knickers"
B x
Thisen is normally translated as yourself, but it more use is more a selfish reasonA proper Yorkshire saying that brilliant. A slight translation error on the last line though.
The last lines translates as:-
And if you ever do something for nothing,
Always do it for yourself.
B x
Provvy woman - any person who does house to house loans
Dunkers - condoms
buttie - your mate
used to have singles years ago, single cigarettes from packs in shops, for about 10p or so.
You got it!we had a Provvy woman too.
Brilliant
A buttie is a sandwich e.g " A Bacon Buttie".
I did wonder why you kept calling me a sandwich
Yes same here. The unscrupulous shopkeepers who opened packs of cigs and sold them individually to the schoolkids. We called them 'Seperates'.
"Can I have 3 seperates please?"
B x
'Seperates' were about double the price of what a cig would be worth if sold in a pack, therefore a Seperate at todays prices would be about a QuidYou got it!
Ahh those good old days when you could buy a single..... long gone.
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