tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post4758893380870386202..comments2024-03-29T12:10:24.356+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: StatureYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-49403367186671272112021-08-29T00:16:36.507+01:002021-08-29T00:16:36.507+01:00Well remembered I think.Well remembered I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-38675296660634252112021-08-28T18:43:54.041+01:002021-08-28T18:43:54.041+01:00Oh, now I see what inspired your subsequent post! ...Oh, now I see what inspired your subsequent post! Yeah, these ARE bewildering. I have a feeling the advice probably amounted to, "buy shoes with higher heels." Love the cover of that street guide. What a cool thing to have.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-9416463367894362652021-08-28T09:13:47.279+01:002021-08-28T09:13:47.279+01:00Population of Wolverhampton - 263,000. Population ...Population of Wolverhampton - 263,000. Population of Sheffield - 585,000. If they are twins, one is more than twice as big as the other! Do you wear a Wolves shirt on the mean streets of Todmorden? BTW Todmorden population - 15,001.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-51278763671946677972021-08-28T09:08:34.755+01:002021-08-28T09:08:34.755+01:00I think that genes were invented by Levi Strauss i...I think that genes were invented by Levi Strauss in the nineteenth century.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-62388828029382449862021-08-28T09:07:02.468+01:002021-08-28T09:07:02.468+01:00I believe that Adolf Hitler suffered from that.I believe that Adolf Hitler suffered from that.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-88008981429509326182021-08-28T09:06:20.961+01:002021-08-28T09:06:20.961+01:00Some of the best things come in small packages.Some of the best things come in small packages.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-76221247361471981652021-08-28T09:05:15.364+01:002021-08-28T09:05:15.364+01:00If you don't mind me saying Red, it is rather ...If you don't mind me saying Red, it is rather too late in life to respond to those advertisements.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-33818747785875189242021-08-28T09:04:12.725+01:002021-08-28T09:04:12.725+01:00Over six feet tall? Good for retrieving items plac...Over six feet tall? Good for retrieving items placed on high shelves... you may be good for other things too but I don't know what Lofty!Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-19543595002753145502021-08-28T08:31:26.315+01:002021-08-28T08:31:26.315+01:00At five foot would have been happy to be taller, b...At five foot would have been happy to be taller, but there are always compensations like when you fall over it is a shorter way to hit the floor. I have never been to Sheffield, only know it for its cutlery but Wolverhampton, home of my birth is probably its twin.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-70311346281353399732021-08-28T08:25:03.906+01:002021-08-28T08:25:03.906+01:00This made me laugh! Had we been alive back then, w...This made me laugh! Had we been alive back then, we may have been taken in by these fantastic claims too. Who knows, maybe somewhere festering in some attic, are the very booklets advertised. These days they'll be put on "Flog It" and sold for a ludicrous sum!<br />Long ago, during the Inquisition, the Spanish had the solution for short people - as mentioned by Tasker - they used the rack!<br />Had no one heard of genes back then?Coppa's girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16459503600694841117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-30921265417944721572021-08-28T02:35:43.812+01:002021-08-28T02:35:43.812+01:00P. P. S. That's an example of what my six-foot...P. P. S. That's an example of what my six-foot-tall husband always referred to as "SPS" - Short Person Syndrome :)jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-19080554927509680472021-08-28T02:34:46.036+01:002021-08-28T02:34:46.036+01:00P. S. Who're you callin' short, buddy?!!P. S. Who're you callin' short, buddy?!!jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-48942924464514443652021-08-28T02:28:43.793+01:002021-08-28T02:28:43.793+01:00I like Mary Moon's point. The charlatans AND t...I like Mary Moon's point. The charlatans AND the gullible have always been - and probably always will be - among us. The only variation is whether they will lose their money or lose their lives.jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-29131217724593167152021-08-28T01:54:01.632+01:002021-08-28T01:54:01.632+01:00Well, I would like to be a little taller but I'...Well, I would like to be a little taller but I'm not obsessed about it.Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996243850279671523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-39381496853725701272021-08-28T00:20:14.400+01:002021-08-28T00:20:14.400+01:00I have always liked that quote from "Hamlet&q...I have always liked that quote from "Hamlet" though I doubt that happiness is genuinely a cigar called Hamlet.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-35752699388334774972021-08-28T00:17:13.855+01:002021-08-28T00:17:13.855+01:00Rumour says you have a 32 inch waist.Rumour says you have a 32 inch waist.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-9395334045485027122021-08-28T00:16:17.863+01:002021-08-28T00:16:17.863+01:00You mean the claims are untrue?You mean the claims are untrue?Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-66242506568410462032021-08-28T00:15:54.083+01:002021-08-28T00:15:54.083+01:00Oh yeah. Sorry to hear about that Martin. I have b...Oh yeah. Sorry to hear about that Martin. I have been there and got the T shirt as they say.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-63364766418766981972021-08-28T00:14:44.892+01:002021-08-28T00:14:44.892+01:00Yes it is. It's the final street in the W sect...Yes it is. It's the final street in the W section just after Wyming Brook which is between Lodge Moor and Redmires.Yorkshire Puddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-21287614639747891202021-08-28T00:14:34.544+01:002021-08-28T00:14:34.544+01:00We are all smiling at the copy in the ad WHY NOT B...We are all smiling at the copy in the ad WHY NOT BE TALLER?<br />*There is no longer any need to be short and overlooked.*<br />How cruel to deceive people (I nearly said raise their hopes) and rob them too !<br /><br />I am over six feet and never gave it a thought, but many people hate being small.<br />Malcolm Ross, Height Specialist, Scarborough, was a charlatan.<br />He is like a dodgy character in a Mike Leigh movie.<br />HaggertyHaggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-88871367319683816382021-08-27T23:54:20.700+01:002021-08-27T23:54:20.700+01:00I recently saw a man in a video clip hanging upsid...I recently saw a man in a video clip hanging upside down by his ankles but I didn't watch further. I reckon that is what he was doing, attempting to increase his height.<br /><br />I don't have the defect of being short and I'll leave it for others to judge if my proportions are defective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-23373499975499050002021-08-27T23:39:12.811+01:002021-08-27T23:39:12.811+01:00"Why don't we see such adverts any more?&..."Why don't we see such adverts any more?"<br /><br />Lawsuits!Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214319366049620074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-83125979342403008012021-08-27T22:19:42.830+01:002021-08-27T22:19:42.830+01:00I love these old books and the adverts especially....I love these old books and the adverts especially. I have some Victorian ones that are even bolder in their claims! <br />Thank you for the complimentary comment on my blog - I will be back writing soon I hope; very sadly, my wife's mum is at end of life and caring duties have simply consumed virtually all our spare time.The bike shedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-31212076910024153592021-08-27T22:07:25.278+01:002021-08-27T22:07:25.278+01:00Is Wynyard road in itIs Wynyard road in itJohn Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-28225739418536164842021-08-27T21:14:56.763+01:002021-08-27T21:14:56.763+01:00*And the end of all our exploring will be to arriv...*And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.* T.S. Eliot<br />Monica Furlong did a book about the numinous, The End of Our Exploring.<br /><br />I have never been in Wolverhampton and the old buildings looks like Baedeker heaven. Strange, when an unknown city looks like a second home.<br /><br />I thought of Hamlet as if for the first time, watching Harold Bloom (YouTube) talk about the play. Bloom was as speculative as a quantum physicist.<br /><br />*There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.*<br />Haggerty<br />Haggertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428937273804366081noreply@blogger.com