Yorkshire Moors

[poliphilo]

It looks bleak, but in fact it's only ten minutes from the nearest conurbation.

Ailz and I were talking about how up until about 20 years ago only the very poor lived on the moors and now you have to be a millionaire to afford the house prices.

She tells me that moorland folk are known as "moor peeps".

 

Comments

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

"peeps" is slang for "people", generally one's friends, in the US anyway. i refer you to a song by shaggy, circa 2001, in which shaggy tells his girl "closer than my peeps you are to me". god i hate my generation.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think of "peeps" as those cloying candy chickens we have at Easter...this is new information for me.

[red-girl-42.livejournal.com]

mmmm...peeps

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The British comedian Harry Enfield, in character as Stavros the Greek stall-holder, popularized the catch-phrase, "hello everybody peeps!" in the 80s.