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Hi Duffs:wave:

 

Yorkshire persons prayer

 

Hear all, see all, say nowt - eat all, sup all, pay nowt

And if ivver tha dus owt fer nowt - allus do it fer thissen:D

 

Here's to me and my wife's husband, not forgerrin me sen

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Hi Duffs:wave:

 

Yorkshire persons prayer

 

Hear all, see all, say nowt - eat all, sup all, pay nowt

And if ivver tha dus owt fer nowt - allus do it fer thissen:D

 

Eyup Lin, ow tha duin?

I allus doit fo missen, dunt know abaht thee!

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Eyup Lin, ow tha duin?

I allus doit fo missen, dunt know abaht thee!

 

If tha dun't, it wain't get done - I'm owreight Duffs, thissen? going for a knee tart on Friday:D

 

---------- Post added 16-04-2013 at 18:07 ----------

 

Always thought Jimmy Riddle was a piddle

 

It is - think he meant face as long as a fiddle :D

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Got me on that one Raymondo, new one on me, never heard of it :)

 

You used a riddle (sieve) to separate ashes from cowk (coke). then you could use the recovered cinders to supplement your meager supply of coal during rationing.

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What did they call those fire grates with the little knob on the front you could push in and out to shake ash into the pan below ?

 

And then there was the corerake..........Coke rake...

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