"Freeway" is most definitely not a Monty Pythonesque term, and it's certainly not something a proper Yorkshireman would ever say.Immanuel Can wrote: 200 of us, living in a shoebox, in the middle of the freeway...
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Oh PLEASEEEEEEE!!Immanuel Can wrote:200 of us, living in a shoebox, in the middle of the freeway...Harbal wrote: Monty Python? Don't talk to me about Monty Python. When I was a lad I had to make do with Benny Hill, Monty Python would have been luxury to me.
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Are you taking the piss, Hobbes?Hobbes' Choice wrote: Oh PLEASEEEEEEE!!
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Well we understand each other, that's all that matters.Hobbes' Choice wrote:As in
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True. But MP used that wording on their North American album and, I think, at their Hollywood Bowl performance too.Harbal wrote: "Freeway" is most definitely not a Monty Pythonesque term, and it's certainly not something a proper Yorkshireman would ever say.
I guess they were translating for the locals.
There's nawt t'be doon about it. So don't go "poncing off te Barnsley."
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E by gumHarbal wrote:Well we understand each other, that's all that matters.Hobbes' Choice wrote:As in
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I grew up in Barnsley and, although it occasionally causes me some embarrassment, I wouldn't want to come from anywhere else.Immanuel Can wrote: There's nawt t'be doon about it. So don't go "poncing off te Barnsley."
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That was my Grandad's generation.Hobbes' Choice wrote: E by gum
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I hear that Barnsley is a good place to be from, - far away from.Harbal wrote:I grew up in Barnsley and, although it occasionally causes me some embarrassment, I wouldn't want to come from anywhere else.Immanuel Can wrote: There's nawt t'be doon about it. So don't go "poncing off te Barnsley."
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Aye 'appen.Harbal wrote:I grew up in Barnsley and, although it occasionally causes me some embarrassment, I wouldn't want to come from anywhere else.Immanuel Can wrote: There's nawt t'be doon about it. So don't go "poncing off te Barnsley."
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It would certainly be good to think that you are far away from it. From your point of view, as well. They'd skin you alive, they don't like tossers in Barnsley.thedoc wrote: I hear that Barnsley is a good place to be from, - far away from.
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And where are you from, Mr. superior?Hobbes' Choice wrote: Aye 'appen.
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I'm sure they would, if any of them were sober enough to stand up.Harbal wrote:It would certainly be good to think that you are far away from it. From your point of view, as well. They'd skin you alive, they don't like tossers in Barnsley.thedoc wrote: I hear that Barnsley is a good place to be from, - far away from.
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He's talking,ain't he? So the answer is 'yes.'Harbal wrote:Are you taking the piss, Hobbes?Hobbes' Choice wrote: Oh PLEASEEEEEEE!!
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