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JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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Yorkshire joke

NB: If you’re not familiar with Yorkshire dialect, this joke may not be funny, but … we’ll see.

There was this Yorkshire elderly couple, see, and the woman had got cancer and one day she died. There was a funeral for her, she was buried, and then the widowed husband noticed something wrong. The first line of the epitaph on her tombstone was supposed to read SHE WERE THINE but the stonemason had made a mistake and left out the final E so the line read SHE WERE THIN instead. Furious at the mason’s shoddy work, the widower went to the mason and demanded that the missing E be restored immediately. So the mason went back to his work, and the next day, the man went back to have a look. To his horror, the first line of the epitaph now read: E SHE WERE THIN.

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Re: Yorkshire joke

Hello Jane;

I think I get it now.

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MathsIsFun

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Re: Yorkshire joke

E bah gum!

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ZHero

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Re: Yorkshire joke

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Tigeree

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Re: Yorkshire joke

LOL! Nice one, Jane!

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