Thats definitely a cracker - got a good reaction from m'colleagues here at work.
Alan Redhouse - Phlegmatic Yorkshireman a la captain cook - or dare I say Harry Enfield's yorkshireman "I say what I like, and I like what I bloody well say" ;-)
Dont forget, Kronos, he is also a businessman. there were probably good reasons for those things - if a yorkshireman doesnt have to spend any money he wont - tighter than scotsmen (according the scotsman who was head of Physics in Leeds when I was there... :-D )