24 Year Old Humour

My Dear Princess and Dear Fellow,

My sister sent me this picture. She found an old email from me that she'd printed out. Given the text (it's about me just coming back from Canada) then it must be circa August 1999.

I had just turned 30 and just met Caro. 

The email is hard to read from my photo, but in it I relay a joke I thought she'd like. And maybe you would like it too. Let's see.

It's about Yorkshire folk so please do put on your best accent:

There's this auld couple y'see. And t'auld woman well she catches pneumonia and dies sudden like. So t'auld man goes to stonemason and says, "Aye well, she were a good wife. She deserves a decent send-off, 'appen I want a good 'eadstone for 'er."

So stonemason says, "'Appen as you do an' all. But what do you want on it, like?"

T'auld man thinks about it. "Well, she were a god-fearing woman. Went to church every Sunday rain or shine for fifty year. I reckon it should say, 'She Was Thine'."

Stonemason says aye ok, and then comes t'day of t'funeral.

But t'auld man is upset when he sees the 'eadstone. It's got a mis-spelling on it! It just says, "She Was Thin".

T'ault man finds stonemason and says, "It's a BLUDDY DISGRACE yer daft apath! I want an 'E' on that bluddy 'eadstone!" Stonemason says aye all right, keep yer 'air on.

One week later, t'auld man goes to visit 'is wife's grave. He reads the inscription. It now reads, "Eeeeee, she was thin."

That still makes me laugh.

S.