Dad Joke Of The Day

[Hopkirk]

Living in Buckinghamshire is never having to say you are Surrey.

[DTCwordfan]

No-folk to that one

[emmie]

you are Suffolk cating me with these jokes....

[1ozzy]

Thats just too English for me to understand

[DTCwordfan]

they kent be getting any worse, ozzy.

[Chipchopper]

That joke is so good it Herts

[mallyh]

this is one of your worcs jokes x

[DTCwordfan]

though it's had many of us creased up in Notts, mally

[mallyh]

it was a stirling effort x

[Spicerack]

I'm surrounded by berks.

[DTCwordfan]

Hoppy should be passing us many lancs for our contributions.....

[ZebuSanctuary]

York so funny. You've got me beaming like a Cheshire cat.

[Patsy33]

Counties lucky stars he never has to apologise..

[Canary42]

This actually reflects reality from years past. When I moved to Staines in 1973, the county of Middlesex had already been eliminated, but still existed as a Postal District so I had a Middlesex address.

On examining my house-purchase document however it stated "...Staines, in the County of Surrey". But I found Surrey residents were reluctant to accept this geographical reference, sticking to the now defunct Middlesex (they tended to look down on Staines, now of course known as Staines-upon-Thames so probably acceptable these days, who knows).

P.S. Apart from airport noise, I found Staines a very nice place to live in those days, I don't know what it's like now. My move to Hampshire in 1988 was work-driven after redundancy.

[Hopkirk]

I lived in Staines for a while, though we tried calling it St. Aines.