LOL. I was in London last week, and the only way I can describe the mood to Americans would be if the President, the Pope, and your dog all died on the same day. You really had to go to Irish or Caribbean communities/pubs – and luckily I spent time in both, visiting friends – to get a different perspective.
The “Dissolution of the Monasteries” had me howling.
A British friend, stuck in a cab in stand-still traffic in London during the Diana-is-dead madness period, said something like "All this for a barmy half-wit clothes-horse." Cabby tossed him out.
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I'll be honest , a little bit of royalty goes a long way for me. I'm pretty fond of that Shakespeare stuff but once you get to the point where they quit sword fighting and beheading one another I lose interest real quick.
So I opened up this morning's
REBID, figure out the topic and think to myself "Well, it's not like he could ignore it." I dive right in though because Roy on a topic I'm not particularly excited about will , for sure, be better than anything else I could read today.
Boy was I ever wrong! This shit is hilarious. I lost it at
"Charles, I know you're out there. I can hear you wheezing. Open this thing and let me out. We are not amused! Knock off this foolishness and let me out this instant. Charles!!"
Chuck3's long-standing/waiting might be a new record (can't be bothered to look) but long-standing notwithstanding, he'll be upstanding and grandstanding with the best of them.
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Sheer brilliance! Your "entertainments" are hilarious. I think the Tories are missing out on a great money-making opportunity, though. With a miles-long queue of people wanting to "pay their respects" why not charge a pound or two per "respect" along the way? "Respects" could be in the form of feathered hats and ribboned leg bells and such-like, transforming the huge crowd into the longest line of Morris dancers ever, maybe even setting a Guiness record and earning enough money to re-open a library somewhere for a few weeks. Hey, it makes just as much sense as having a royal family!
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You had me at “THE ONLY LAW IS BONAR LAW” but when Cilla Black officially became a popular British attraction I thoroughly plotzed. God Save us from (the now Independent) Jeremy Corbyn! (To be fair, for about ten minutes I supported him while he was my MP for Islington North.) Your Tesco gift card is in the post.
King Charles III channeling King Henry VIII — that olde-tyme Monarchy!
Also, reading REBID is not for the intellectually lazy, but thankfully, Google assists slothful students such as myself in researching the obscure references with which Edroso lards his substack epistles. The Latin took a while to find (comparatively speaking — 5-10 minutes, a loooong time for an incurious mental slug-a-bed like me) but Cilla Black came up right away! All 5 of her name, even.
Very disappointed in the conspiracy theorists over on this side of the pond that "Queen not dead, working as convenience-store clerk in rural Tennessee" is not already on my internet.
Later: "Queen not dead, will be sharing VP slot with JFK Junior."
If they’re resurrecting (pun intended) living tableaux, I hope they’ve recruited guilds to present medieval mystery plays. Kids today don’t even learn about the York Play of the Crucifixion or The Second Shepherds’ Play in school these days. Harrumph!
Do I _really_ want to be a teacher with a class full of American junior high boys covering the history of the Conservative Party during the days of Bonar Law?
(I learned so much by reading the Wikipedia article in Asquith and folliwing every single link…and not just that Helena Bonham-Carter's a descendant.)
(Special NFTs of "The King's Touch" will be distributed to the first 75,000 pounds, er, mourners.)
Cilla Black? That's a deep cut.
LOL. I was in London last week, and the only way I can describe the mood to Americans would be if the President, the Pope, and your dog all died on the same day. You really had to go to Irish or Caribbean communities/pubs – and luckily I spent time in both, visiting friends – to get a different perspective.
The “Dissolution of the Monasteries” had me howling.
A British friend, stuck in a cab in stand-still traffic in London during the Diana-is-dead madness period, said something like "All this for a barmy half-wit clothes-horse." Cabby tossed him out.
Damn, this almost enough to make her my queen after all.
Of course, if we were in Merry Olde, we’d all be busted for this...
I'll be honest , a little bit of royalty goes a long way for me. I'm pretty fond of that Shakespeare stuff but once you get to the point where they quit sword fighting and beheading one another I lose interest real quick.
So I opened up this morning's
REBID, figure out the topic and think to myself "Well, it's not like he could ignore it." I dive right in though because Roy on a topic I'm not particularly excited about will , for sure, be better than anything else I could read today.
Boy was I ever wrong! This shit is hilarious. I lost it at
"And he’s married to a sooty"
Bravo Excellent well done!
" His wife will shag you for two ales"
Oh Jesus
I exspect that unneeded-but-classic old school exstra S in these English words derived from Latin
THUMP THUMP THUMP
"Charles, I know you're out there. I can hear you wheezing. Open this thing and let me out. We are not amused! Knock off this foolishness and let me out this instant. Charles!!"
Chuck3's long-standing/waiting might be a new record (can't be bothered to look) but long-standing notwithstanding, he'll be upstanding and grandstanding with the best of them.
Sheer brilliance! Your "entertainments" are hilarious. I think the Tories are missing out on a great money-making opportunity, though. With a miles-long queue of people wanting to "pay their respects" why not charge a pound or two per "respect" along the way? "Respects" could be in the form of feathered hats and ribboned leg bells and such-like, transforming the huge crowd into the longest line of Morris dancers ever, maybe even setting a Guiness record and earning enough money to re-open a library somewhere for a few weeks. Hey, it makes just as much sense as having a royal family!
You had me at “THE ONLY LAW IS BONAR LAW” but when Cilla Black officially became a popular British attraction I thoroughly plotzed. God Save us from (the now Independent) Jeremy Corbyn! (To be fair, for about ten minutes I supported him while he was my MP for Islington North.) Your Tesco gift card is in the post.
King Charles III channeling King Henry VIII — that olde-tyme Monarchy!
Also, reading REBID is not for the intellectually lazy, but thankfully, Google assists slothful students such as myself in researching the obscure references with which Edroso lards his substack epistles. The Latin took a while to find (comparatively speaking — 5-10 minutes, a loooong time for an incurious mental slug-a-bed like me) but Cilla Black came up right away! All 5 of her name, even.
I gotta go back to bed.
Very disappointed in the conspiracy theorists over on this side of the pond that "Queen not dead, working as convenience-store clerk in rural Tennessee" is not already on my internet.
Later: "Queen not dead, will be sharing VP slot with JFK Junior."
If they’re resurrecting (pun intended) living tableaux, I hope they’ve recruited guilds to present medieval mystery plays. Kids today don’t even learn about the York Play of the Crucifixion or The Second Shepherds’ Play in school these days. Harrumph!
What about:
A penny loaf to feed ol'Pope,
A farthing cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down,
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar,'
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head,
Then we'll say: ol'Pope is dead.
Do I _really_ want to be a teacher with a class full of American junior high boys covering the history of the Conservative Party during the days of Bonar Law?
(I learned so much by reading the Wikipedia article in Asquith and folliwing every single link…and not just that Helena Bonham-Carter's a descendant.)