RoundUp 043 - Licking Grandma's Forehead

[Nurmix]

I found these educational:

[miner2049er]

Well then I guess it has to do with 3 of them then.

Sadly not, but I like the reference to Yorkshire Puddings. Even a fine upstanding Lancashire man like myself appreciates Yorkshire Puddings.

I fear you will never get it, so

Tin tin tin

translates as:

It isn't in the tin

[example]
"Gerrus kayli out o' tin."
"Tin tin tin."

[Nurmix]

I fear you will never get it, so translates as:

[example]
"Gerrus kayli out o' tin."
"Tin tin tin."

Not in a million years would I have guessed that.

I briefly worked with a guy from Yorkshire in the mid nineties (when I was a stage manager at a studio in LA where they did a lot of TV commercials and music videos). I remember him saying this:

See all, 'ear all, say nowt. Eat all, sup all,
pay nowt. An' if th'ivver does owt for
nowt, allus do it for thissen


Which I believe I've correctly translated below:

See all, hear all, say nothing.
Eat all, drink all, pay nothing.
If you ever do anything for nothing, do it for yourself.

[miner2049er]

A perfect translation and a typically Yorkshire phrase to boot.

There was a great line in the Top Gear Polar Special which I suppose passed most of your countrymen by.

Jerermy Clarkson said to James May during their drive to the North Pole that they were currently the most Northern people in the world. More Northern than even Michael Parkinson.

[Nurmix]

There was a great line in the Top Gear Polar Special which I suppose passed most of your countrymen by.

Jerermy Clarkson said to James May during their drive to the North Pole that they were currently the most Northern people in the world. More Northern than even Michael Parkinson.

That wouldn't have meant much to me had I seen the episode. But I would have looked the name up to figure out the reference; which, after checking your links, makes that a damn funny joke!

[All Your Base]

Aye! 'appen.

Thar't oreet bi me tha knows.

'ast geet some jackbit? I'm klempt, our kid!

[miner2049er]

'ast geet some jackbit? I'm klempt, our kid!

'ast not geet thi own snap?

[psimo]

Do you realise that the way you are talking is referred to as pitjabber?
I suppose from Yorkshire miners.

[miner2049er]

Lancashire Miners talk in a similar way, as do lots of owd Lanky folk.

[LovelyWong]

From the justice.gov website
Former Chief Technology Officer of San Jose Video Arcade Gaming Software Company Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud

Wow. I had a feeling it was David Foley. The part of it that really makes it creepy and weird for me is that I used to have the Ultracade homepage as my start page on my personal computer at that time and at one point it said that they were hiring and I responded because I was looking for a job. Lo and behold he is the one who would respond to my request and that he would be the one receiving my resume and what all else.
But on a good note, I remember playing that thing like crazy wherever it appeared. So I guess I played illegal copies of the games that were loaded on it. I do also remember reading or hearing something that some or perhaps all of the games running on it were illegal. I think it was the Taito and Namco/Bally Midway games running on it. Then again, I am not surprised.
So I guess he owes someone all those quarters I spent on it.