Had To Laugh

Just been watching my grandson playing for Horizon against a school from Sheffield. Midway through the second half one of their players shouted “sir, sir, he’s just called me a Dee Dar”

 

Absolute quality. Well done that lad. First day at Senior School in Sheffield, I swear I thought I was
in a foreign country. A fellow pupil from Sheffield said " nar ten yo'r lot ware da from Dee."?
I hadn't got a dolly blue what he was saying to me.

 

Which school in Sheffield did you attend?

 

Dey do doe, dunt Dey doe! Or course we speak pure English! Tha nuas, dunt tha!

 

De La Salle College in Pitsmoor. I travelled every day from Donny along with lads from
Barnsley, Chesterfield, Worksop and Rotherham/Maltby. Because there were no Catholic
Schools in Doncaster back then, my parents allowed our local priest to convince them I should
have a good Catholic education. I have often wished that they had let me go to the nearest
Grammar School at Thorne, but they didn't. Fortunately when it was my sisters turn, they used
my experience as their guide and let her go to Thorne GS.

 

Barnsley " Nar then thee ar tha gooin on"
North Sheffield up to Grenoside. " Nar den thee ar tha gooin on."
Central/South Sheffield. " Nar den dee ar dah gooin on."
For the last 25 years I've worked the Sheffield area with lots of us dingles and dem dee dahs. Great banter re our different accents. And trying to explain to em what a fishcake is and what a teacake is. Sum on em dunt know what laikin ( being on the sick) means
Strange buggers. .

 

Similar story to me. Was at De La Salle 1968-73 instead of going to Broadway in Barnsley. Big mistake. Knew more when I entered than when I left!!

 

Worrying number of ex-DLS wallers on here!

 

You as well?

 

Don't know about the Christian Brothers that taught you, but those that taught me, weren't very Christian.
Four of them, re- Ambrose, Serenus, Wilfred and Victor, were only too keen to dish out the strap or cane
for the slightest little thing, that today they would probably be classed as sadists.

 

I know the handshake!

 

When I was in the 4th Year, Brother Peter caned me and four fellow pupils at 3rd Year assembly. Pain and humiliation. No idea why we were caned either.

 

I thought you were a cut above

 

Victor was my first head teacher, then Wilfred. Mick McCarthy’s brother was in my year.

 

They say John was the best footballer of the three of them. Time and place, and all that.

 

On my second day I went into the cloakroom to get my gloves. Next morning Wilfred gave me
three strokes of the cane in front of the whole school at assembly. The offence " out of bounds
at dinner time."

 

Gratification! And he weren't t'only one.

 

John was a decent enough winger at school. Not built like Mick though. He will probably will have filled out later of course.

 

Captain Wall and his slipper!!

 

I remember Captain Wall. Was Thelwall teaching History when you were there.? He loved boxing I remember.
It wasn't all bad at DLS. Remember going up to Fort William on a trip and we went by ferry to the Isle of Iona.
All the brothers were suppin in the bar in casual clothes. On the return trip, the Popes representative ( Apostolic
delegate) who had been on Iona got on the ferry back to Ft William. The brothers were running round begging the
lads not to call them Brother or blow their cover. It was hilarious.

One night, one of the Brothers borrowed a mate of mines suit and went into Fort William . He never returned.
We were told later that he'd hooked up with a local lass, decided to quit the order and moved in with her.