Hi, Bob. Is it your Barrf-night?
There are all sorts going on in some parts of Yorkshire on a Saturday night,
some of it involving mushy peas.
Sadly little people in black hats selling 'Warcry' are no longer around.
The little people in white hats ( which are supposed to convey the hint of
hygiene, I suppose) are still around but on the East coast, here it is all
curries and pizzas and you have to go out for them.
Tetley's is a commercial beer, brewed in Leeds and other foreign parts, I
live in Taylor's country, brewed less than a mile away from where I sit now.
If you can drink the best in the world why drink anything else. On this I
will brook no debate, we have prizes for best draught bitter and best
bottled light ale, year after year, so it is the opinion of experts. Its the
water, you know.
A pint of Taylor's Ram Tam with its snowy head and auric pellucidity warms
you on the long walk home on a winter's evening when there's a hint of frost
in the air. Gosh, I feel an ode coming on!
Regards Arthur.


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From: "Bob Cooper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: punctuation ( arthur etc...)


Oh dear, Arthur, must have had too many pellucids... there's an
australian/anglo-saxon word coming out "Barff..."

I recall in some parts of Yorkshire, on Saturday nights, people used to come
into the pubs, wearing little white hats and carrying trays, and selling
small packets of shellfish: mussells, prawns and the like. Tetley Bitter and
mussells soaked in vinegar... perhaps the northern equivalent of the
latinate pellucids!) Once again, "Barff..."

Bob


>From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: punctuation ( arthur etc...)
>Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 22:07:39 +0000
>
>H'm, Arthur,
>Yes, "pellucid..."
>Aye, I can taste it! But it's not vegetarian! More sort of fishy... It's
>sort of the type of food on has on Medeterainian holidays. Ah, hot nights,
>no twilight - just the suddenness of dark, still shorts and T-shirts and,
>inbetween picking up the not yet empty another bottle of wine... lean
>forward to the table, open the mouth and drop in the taste of the last
>pellucid...
>Bob
>
>
>>From: arthur seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: punctuation ( arthur etc...)
>>Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:50:42 +0100
>>
>>Bob, thanks for your contribution. It is a prolonged exchange I agree but
>>interesting to me. As far as Latinate v Anglo-Saxon contributions to our
>>language.
>>I like Anglo -Saxon myself but there is a smoothness about the Latinate
>>that
>>is seductive. I mean  honestly now wouldn't you just love to use
>>'pellucid'
>>in a poem.So smooth on the tongue you can almost taste it...

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