Shyrley

Nancy Wooton wrote:

> on 12/28/01 11:53 AM, Carol & Mac at mjcmbrwn@... wrote:
>
> >> What Monty Python sketches are specifically Yorkshire besides
> "Every
> >> Sperm is
> >> Sacred"? If we had our friend Helena here who's lived in and
> around
> >> York for
> >> the past two years, she could coach him, but she's in London,
> probably
> >> losing her edge.
> >
> > It's a bit early in the morning for me to think too seriously but...
>
> > what about the one with the old men who had it tough? You know,
> "Well,
> > we reeeeally had it tough. We lived in paper bag in middle o'road,
> and
> > every mornin we had to get up an lick road clean..." Those accents
> must
> > be from up north somewhere? So maybe Yorkshire?
>
> Do you have any "All Creatures Great and Small" tapes, or for that
> matter,
> the dialect written out in the books? And for MP sketches, what about
> the
> one where Graham Chapman lives, looks and talks like a miner, but is
> really
> a famous playwright, and Eric Idle is his son who *is* a miner, but
> dresses
> and talks like a banker?
>
> I just grabbed "All Things Wise and Wonderful" off the shelf, and
> opened it
> randomly; chapter 23 features a guy who yells all the time, so the
> caps
> attracted my attention. Some of his lines:
> Aye, a good bacon pig. Gone right off. It hasn't ate nowt for two
> days.
> He were right as ninepence on Monday night...
> Nay, ah don't like that much! Ah allus like to 'ave a go. Isn't
> there
> summat we can do? Where there's life there's 'ope, tha knaws.
> Finished up as dog meat, poor bugger!
>
> Nancy
>

ee by gum lad. I lived in yorkshire for a fair bit before we moved 'down
south' to be with them southern pansies.
Then we moved to America.....(6 months now and counting)

Shyrley who actually has a cornish accent


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