A short article taken from an English newspaper,          

     Yorkshire Evening Post       1922.

A REFLECTION ON YORKSHIRE

On the night of the debate in Parliament on the Leeds and Bradford Extension Bill,  when many Yorkshire visitors were present, the Chief Doorkeeper of the House of Commons missed his snuffbox, which is by way of being a famous article.

He has just received it back in an envelope with a Yorkshire postmark.   No explanation  accompanied the restitution.

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A thief with a conscience? Or, the thief only wanted the snuff?

Someone probably taking the whole snuff box in with them then forgetting it was in their pocket. Sounds like something I would accidentally do.

Hello  Aamon

I don’t know where you live in this  world of ours,     apologies to you in advance if required.

Yorkshire is the adjoining county to Lancashire. There is much rivalry between their cricket teams and such like.

Your observation seems to bear out the old  Lancastrian  saying…

Yorkshire born,

Yorkshire bred,

Strong in the arm,

And weak in the head.

Could be something to do with all the snuff made and taken over there.

Cheers One and All.

:))

@ArtChoo ahaha no offence taken, I’m no thief just forgetful.

Possibly bears more similarity to

Australian Born,
Australian Bred,

A Beer in the arm,

Forgot what I just said.

Though we do have a very similar Australian saying

Australian-Born,

Australian-Bred,

Long in the legs,

Short in the head

Probably dates back to when you Poms shipped all your criminals off to our country.

I found out the other day that “Poms” was short for pomegranates, since some how we though it rhymed with immigrants.   
:ar!

@Aamon here is another one I heard about where the word “Pom” comes from. I was told it was an acronym and stood for Prisoners of His Majesty (originally POHM and shortened to Pom) on a ships manifest to distinguish the gentry from the riff raff on their way over here. Any other ideas out there?

@Snuffick I’ve also heard it could stand for the “Port of Melbourne”, this is where all of the ships coming in were docked. 

I thought the pomegranate one was interesting since pomegranates used to be called pommies back in the day. Also the possible connection to how someone coming over from England in our Australian sun, there skin would go red like a pomegranate quite quickly. As I read further into this, Australian apparently at first called a new immigrant “Jimmy Grant”, then this name was used in a few poems around that time which was almost always paired and rhymed with Pomegranate. Then we started replacing “Jimmy Grant” with “Pommy Grant” then this eventually was shortened to just “Pommy” or “Pom”. I don’t think anybody knows for sure, there are quite alot of theories out there, though this one interested me the most.