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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Yorkshire customs officers
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:59:30 +0000
In-Reply-To: <002001c59b8b$9fd73dd0$4d5d60cb@HARRISON>


I wrote.....

> > The only inconvenience is when the train stops at the
> > Lancashire-Yorkshire border and the customs and immigration people
> > come on board. Being Yorkshire officers, they are particularly tough
> > on any Lancastrians, naturally, but if you're Yorkshire or an
> > overseas visitor you're OK ! <v.b.g.><

I omitted to mention that one of the reasons there is a customs post
at the Lancashire-Yorkshire border, at which the trains from
Manchester have to stop and allow customs and immigration officers on
board, is to prevent anyone carrying that foul Lancastrian concoction
known as tripe and onions, or cans of Boddington's beer, into
Yorkshire.

Passengers caught with George Formby, Grace Fields or Ken
Dodd records, or who admit under questioning to watching Coronation
Street, are also likely to be viewed with suspicion. Overseas
visitors visiting Yorkshire for the first time, if interrogated by
the immigration people, are advised it would be wisest to say they
love Harry Ramsden's fish and chips, John Smith's and Tetley's beer
and watching Last of the Summer Wine and Emmerdale. That should get
you across the border OK!

Roy Stockdill
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One would be in less danger
From the wiles of the stranger
If one's own kin and kith
Were more fun to be with

Ogden Nash

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