Sunday, January 22, 2006

If English counties had a motto what should they be?

by prydwen

Bedfordshire - 'We got lions'
Berkshire - 'Reading Festival and not a book in sight'
Buckinghamshire - 'Concrete cows and cement milk'
Cambridgeshire - 'Roll that cheese'
Cheshire - 'Pretentiously posh'
Cleveland - 'Where Chris Rea got the idea for Road to Hell'
Cornwall - 'Ginsters are us'
Cumbria - 'We Glow in the Dark'
Derbyshire - 'Where men are men and sheep are worried'
Devon - 'As thick as our cream'
Dorset - 'Home of the fossils'
Durham - 'Home of the Pink Panther'
Essex - 'Blondes are us'
East Sussex - 'If it moves tax it'
Gloucestershire - 'Tasty like our cheese'
Hampshire - 'Solent Green'
Herefordshire - 'land of pedants'
Hertfordshire - 'We should be in London'
Isle of Man - 'But not in a gay way'
Isle of Wight - ' Where the old go to die'
Kent - 'We speak over 100 languages'
Lancashire - 'Reet Good'
Leicestershire - 'Semper Eadem' (We Make Crisps)
Lincolnshire - 'Land of the Yellow Bellies'
London - 'We got the Olympics, you didn't'
Manchester - 'Sorted and always grey'
Merseyside - 'If it can be moved nick it'
Norfolk - 'Flat as a witch's tit'
Northamptonshire - 'We make shoes'
Northumberland -'Get Off That Bloody Wall, it's Hadrians'
North Yorkshire - 'The Moor the Merrier'
Nottinghamshire - 'We don't all wear green tights'
Oxfordshire - 'Anyone know Morse Code?'
Rutland - 'Closed on Sundays'
Shropshire - 'We have attractions, but nobody knows it!'
Somerset - 'Not all Yokels, but it helps'
South Yorkshire - 'Home of Mr Gay UK 2004'
Staffordshire - 'We're all potty'
Suffolk - 'Pleased as punch'
Surrey - 'Full of Epsom sorts'
Tyne and Wear - 'Did yee spill yor lasses pint'
Warwickshire - 'Land of the luvvies'
West Midlands - 'Where cars go Brum'
West Sussex - 'I'm the only straight in the village'
West Yorkshire -'We believe in Fairies'
Wiltshire - 'Overtaking on narrow country lanes is not compulsary'
Worcestershire - 'There's Saucy'

Northern Ireland - 'Home of the Guiness flavourered crisps'
Scotland - 'If it's edible deep-fry it'

Wales - 'We got hills (diamheuol bryniog)'

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