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Happy Yorkshire Day!

Being a Lancastrian......

Rodo wrote:Happy Yorkshire Day!

Thank you Rodo.

Just to be clear, though. Every day is Yorkshire Day. But we are not selfish, that is why we have set aside August the 1st every year to share with all of you outside of God's County.

Have a wonderful day..... on us.

Critical reaction

The day has attracted some criticism:

Despite the serious underlying purpose and money-raising activities for charity, some Yorkshire people worry that it has become a media and marketing jamboree, perpetuating stereotypes of whippets, black puddings and flat caps. "We have to be careful not to overdo it, but regional distinctiveness adds colour. I'm against a grey uniformity spreading over everything, which is the way the world is going," says Arnold Kellett from the Yorkshire Dialect Society.[3] Others have called it a 'Masonic Jamboree' because of its impressive list of council leaders and officials.[who?]

In its early years, the day was not widely acknowledged. A 1991 Times editorial read: Today is Yorkshire Day. Not many people know that, as a very non-Yorkshire person likes to say, and probably not many Yorkshiremen either know or care. It is almost as artificial as Father's Day, which, as all thrifty northerners know, was created to sell more greetings cards..[16]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Day

ROFL - everyone in Skipton, on the count of three, wave your flat caps in the air ...... one ....... two .........

Regarding trinkets and wotnots..... "We have to be careful not to overdo it....."

Aye, he's right about that there aspect, but let's be honest, we've nivver bin feard o' teking other people's brass. On a slow day we even swap small change from pocket t' pocket wi-out ussels noin' just t' keep in practice.

Stan decided to visit his friend Alf.

He found Alf at his bungalow in Huddersfield stripping the wallpaper from the dining room.

Stan remarked, "You're decorating, I see", to which Alf replied, "Nay Stanley lad, I'm moving 'ouse to Bradford."

Rodo

My first husband was from Bradford