Last week on Coronation Street the old bag Blanche, Ken Barlow's aceberic mother-ini-law, was listening to another old bag who was described someone's two sisters, and this person said:

"one's dead and the other lives in Derbyshire"

to which Blanche acidly replied "And i don't know which one is better off"

Now i suspect Darby area is industrial, etc. but how can it be worse than Manchester?

Is Derbyshire that bad?

and what unkind nicknames for mother-in-laws exist in English English?

thanks





Author: PalenqueBob ([email protected])
Date: 09/17/2007, 10:09 am

Last week on Coronation Street the old bag Blanche, Ken Barlow's aceberic mother-ini-law, was listening to someone who was described someone's two sisters and this person said:

"one's dead and the other lives in Derbyshire"

to which Blanche acidly replied "And i don't know which one is better off"

Now i suspect Darby area is industrial, etc. but how can it be worse than Manchester?

Is Derbyshire that bad?

and what unkind nicknames for mother-in-laws exist in English English?

thanks





Author: PalenqueBob ([email protected])
Date: 09/17/2007, 10:09 am

Last week on Coronation Street the old bag Blanche, Ken Barlow's aceberic mother-ini-law, was listening to someone who was described someone's two sisters and this person said:

"one's dead and the other lives in Derbyshire"

to which Blanche acidly replied "And i don't know which one is better off"

Now i suspect Darby area is industrial, etc. but how can it be worse than Manchester?

Is Derbyshire that bad?

and what unkind nicknames for mother-in-laws exist in English English?

thanks

Debryshire is pretty rural - it's where the Peak District is

As for the comment, I suspect it's the old cross Pennine rivalry

The "better part" of Derbyshire got a whole lot better once Elizabeth Bennett figured out she loved Mr. Darcy.

I can't help you for evil names for English mothers-in-law since mine is dead and everyone knows that once you're dead you're a saint. However, my husband travels regularly to Derby on business and let's just say that the charms of Derbyshire unfold themselves a little less willingly than other places in England. It's not exactly England's beauty spot. I wouldn't travel to the city of Derby as a tourist, but the countryside is nice and there are some wonderful walks to be had. It's lovely in its own way but of course pales beside the overt beauty of the Lakes District or the Cotswolds.

We got you the first time.

Derbyshire's a county of two halves. Most of the tourist stuff round the Peak District is glorious. But it's got one of the highest densities of Crap Towns anywhere.

Derby's not much cop: but wait till you see the Derby suburb of Sinfin. Chesterfield thinks it's the bees' knees because whoever designed its church used the same calculations for the spire as the bloke who did the bell tower at Pisa. And that's the town's high spot.

And as for Clay Cross...

It gives Mancunians somewhere else to complain about than Liverpool

I think Bob answered his own question. Blanche's remark, like most of them, is precisely a measure of her old-bag-ness.

well i considered that but then thought that the writers wrote that and not Blanche.

Seems to be a typical off-hand sarcasm Blanchism though.

<<< We got you the first time. >>>

Perhaps PalenqueBob is really Fred Elliott - or Foghorn Leghorn

i have no idea how that got copied three times from the Lounge post - Fred is dead BTW

I actually heard that Blanche got some awards for character acting - she is pretty good.

I say Ihave no idea how that got copied three times from the Lounge post

no idea how that was done, i say, no idea

"Fred is dead BTW"

Ooops!!! You've just ruined the storyline for them!

No i see it on CanuckBS same time frame as 'they' do - Fred is dead and Charlie is soon to get his Christmas surprise (my theory)

Danny Baldwin has just disappeared so i don't know yet about him - dead or alive? (don't tell)

Now the Baldwins, whatever happened to them...

Featuring big in the storylines at the moment are the Platts and Croppers and rumours of more characters to leave in the autumn...

"Now i suspect Darby area is industrial, etc. but how can it be worse than Manchester?"

Nice to know that someone who obviously knows sod all about the North of England is such a Coronation Street fan.

Ever been to Manchester, Bob?

Oh, and please get the spelling correct - it's DErbyshire not DArbyshire.

And a good portion of it is in the Pennines - great walks and landscape.

Plenty of history.

Why don't you go take a look and then you might be better informed.

The Peak District is one of the most beautiful parts of the UK.

I love the Peak District - I think it knocks the Lake district into a cocked hat.

Derbyshire's great for walking, looking at stately homes and kestrel strangling.

On the other part of your topic Bob, my grandmother was Welsh so she was always the dragon - my father's favourite comment was that his mother-in-law was on the Welsh Flag.
My son took this name over from him - and being half- Welsh (the best half ) applied it to me! Cheek. Luckily my daughter-in-law liked the joke and gave me a big stuffed dargon on their wedding day, with the note that not all dragons are nasty.
My mother was known as the daft old bat, by everyone. My father as the MOG (miserable old git). Neither really applied, well not much anyway.
My brother lives in Derby, as does a cousin. Not the most inspiring of cities, but wonderful countryside and stately homes around. It is also the only place in the world where Blue John is found.

Why don't you go take a look and then you might be better informed.

well i have been to the Peak District but did not know it were in Darbyshire.

And bien sur i have been to Manchester more than once (why? i guess i'm a dunce!

I posed the question just to learn more and i have. Derbyshire is a gem it seems - outisde of Darby.

DErby, Bob !

Actually I like Manchester - DH worked there for several months & we had several good weekends there. But I suppose it isn't really a worthwhile tourist destination.