Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

A woman lay in a coma in the hospital while the nurses were in her room giving her a sponge bath.

One of them was washing her private area and noticed that there was a response on the monitor when she touched her.

They went to her husband and explained what happened, telling him, "Crazy as this sounds, maybe a little oral sex will do the trick and bring her out of the coma."

The husband was sceptical, but they assured him that they'd close the curtains for privacy. The hubby finally agreed and went into his wife's room.

After a few minutes the woman's monitor flat lined, no pulse, no heart rate.

The nurses rushed into the room. "What happened?" they cried. The husband said,

"I guess she choked."

A mother was teaching her three year old daughter The Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she repeated it after her mother. One night she said she was ready to solo. The mother listened with pride, as she carefully enunciated each word right up to the end..."And lead us not into temptation", she prayed, "but deliver us some e-mail, Amen."

Here's a list of English icons that I've found...I notice that only three of them specifically refer to Yorkshire though; roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, York Minster, and Robin Hood (who, although associated with Sherwood Forest and Nottingham was actually a Yorkshireman - the Earl of Loxle.)

Alice In Wonderland
The Angel of the North
The Archers
Big Ben
Blackpool Tower
The Bobby
Bonfire Night
Bowler Hat
Brick Lane
Cheddar Cheese
Cricket
A Cup of Tea
Doctor Who
The Domesday Book
Eden Project
The FA Cup
Fish and chips
Fox-hunting and the Ban
Globe Theatre
Hadrian's Wall
The Hay Wain
Hedges
HMS Victory
Holbein's Henry VIII
The Iron Bridge
Jerusalem
The King James Bible
The Lake District
Lindisfarne Gospels
Magna Carta
The Mini
Miniskirt
Monty Python
Morris Dancing
Mrs Beeton's Book Of Household Management
Narrowboats on Canals
Notting Hill Carnival
Oak Tree
The Origin Of Species
Oxbridge
The Oxford English Dictionary
Parish Church
The Peak District
The Phone Box
The Pint
Pride And Prejudice
The Pub
Punch and Judy
Queen's Head Stamp
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding
The Robin
Robin Hood
Rolls-Royce
The Rose
The Routemaster Bus
Rugby
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sherlock Holmes
The Spitfire
SS Empire Windrush
St George's Flag
Stiff Upper Lip
Stonehenge
Sutton Hoo Helmet
The Thames
Tower of London
The Tube Map
The V-sign
The Weather
Westminster Abbey
White Cliffs of Dover
Wimbledon
Winnie-the-Pooh
York Minster

A U.S. Marine squad was patrolling north of Fallujiah when they came upon an
Iraqi terrorist, badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the
road was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state. The Marine
was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the squad
leader asked the injured Marine what had happened.

The Marine reported, "I was moving north along the highway here, and coming
south was this heavily armed insurgent. We saw each other and we both took
cover in the ditches on opposite sides of the road.

"I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein is a miserable, lowlife scum bag, and
he yelled back that Ted Kennedy is a good-for-nothing, fat, left wing
liberal drunk.

"So I said that Osama Bin Ladin dresses and acts like a frigid,
mean-spirited lesbian! He retaliated by yelling, 'Oh yeah? Well, so does
Hillary Clinton!' And, there we were, in the middle of the road, shaking
hands, when a truck hit us."