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[sergeantflynn]

sergeantflynn, on 22 October 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:

coldethyl  you must have heard it too..........

Ashven , You could have instigated a conversation you know , something like " `Get many Bradford women round here ? "

[CRIPTIC CHAMELEON]

sergeantflynn, on 22 October 2012 - 04:57 PM, said:

So she had a tough life . There were 26 of us kids living in a paper-bag at the bottom of a cess-pit . When we got in from school our father beat us with a broken bottle until we fell asleep happy & contented . I`m going to write a book about it when I retire . The money will come in handy .

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!.

[sergeantflynn]

Those 4 Yorkshiremen will haunt me for the rest of my life.................

[CRIPTIC CHAMELEON]

sergeantflynn, on 22 October 2012 - 08:40 PM, said:

Those 4 Yorkshiremen will haunt me for the rest of my life.................

Its still one of my favorite Monty Python skits.

[Abramelin]

Still Waters, on 21 October 2012 - 11:54 AM, said:

The story of a Yorkshire housewife who spent five years in her childhood living with a colony of capuchin monkeys in Colombia is to be told for the first time in a book and planned television documentary.

Marina Chapman learnt to catch birds and rabbits with her bare hands after being abandoned in the jungle by kidnappers, it was reported.

http://www.telegraph...-in-jungle.html

Come on people, this is just a hoax based on wordplay:

It's not capuchin monkeys, but Capuchin monks:

http://en.wikipedia...._Minor_Capuchin

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EDIT:

In 1916 the Arhuacos asked the government of Colombia for teachers to learn to read and write and also learn about mathematics, but instead the government sent Capuchin Friars. The Friars prohibited the children from learning about their culture, established a "regime of terror" and put them aside in an orphanage. They also established forced labor, ignoring the Arhuacos' plea to leave them alone.

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On August 7, 1982 they rebelled against the Capuchins and took over the mission's buildings. The Capuchins finally left in 1983.

http://en.wikipedia..../Arhuaco_people

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Edited by Abramelin, 23 October 2012 - 02:30 PM.

[sergeantflynn]

First it was monkeys . Now it`s Monks . I thought it was coffee . Correct me if I`m wrong .

[Abramelin]

You correct me if *I* am wrong.

[CRIPTIC CHAMELEON]

Abramelin, on 23 October 2012 - 02:14 PM, said:

Come on people, this is just a hoax based on wordplay:

It's not capuchin monkeys, but Capuchin monks:

Hmm interesting but maybe some of the monks might of been a bit cro-magnonish and this inspired the head lines.

[JGirl]

sergeantflynn, on 22 October 2012 - 04:57 PM, said:

So she had a tough life . There were 26 of us kids living in a paper-bag at the bottom of a cess-pit . When we got in from school our father beat us with a broken bottle until we fell asleep happy & contented . I`m going to write a book about it when I retire . The money will come in handy .

luxury...

[Alex Smith]

I was raised by brass monkeys

[nohands]

WHAT A NICE STORY TO TELL.... WHAT A BEAUTIFUL LIFE IT HAS BEEN

[BiffSplitkins]

Alex Smith, on 25 October 2012 - 01:27 PM, said:

I was raised by brass monkeys

Then you must be one funky monkey!

[Eldorado]

So sad.

She was sacked as a prostitute for throwing feces at the clients, apparently.  

Edited by Eldorado, 31 October 2012 - 04:35 PM.