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In Reply to: Wake up! posted by Muzikmike on January 10, 2003 at 07:09:37:
During 'the Terror',3 scarlet pimpernels are captured in France by the 'sans culottes'.
A Scot, a Pom, and a Mick.
And they're all taken to Paris and before the 'committee for public safety'.
Then off in the tumbrils to 'le place de l'execution'.
It is late afternoon by this time, and what with the press of the crowds, and the reaction forces, the structure of 'madame le guillotine' is getting a bit loose.
Anyway the chief of the 'sans culottes' says to the Pom, 'ah messiuer iz mon breve Inglis gentilhomme, 'ow you wis' to dye eh! face down into Ze baskit or face up, into ze blade, non?'
I'll, ..... I'll face up into the blade' so thy put him in and the crowd surges and the blade slams into the uprights and catches peeling off splinters and sticks in the wood a few mm's above his throat.
'ze double jeopardy' rule operates, and he goes off, freed, to Calais, in a carriage. (with new trousers!).
and the Scot says "aye, ai'll look up a the blayydd laddee, aye'.
and the same thing happens! so off he goes, (but he was wearing a kilt, so they just let him wash!)
At last they get to the Irishman, one of those big thick-necked ones *, and he agrees to look up at the blade too, 'Loik dem udder fellers did'.
And they put the yoke, tightly, over his neck, and he's twisting his head a bit. The Frog leans over and says 'Allors! you are uncomfortable, messieur Irish, but not for long eh?'
'Arr well now,' he sez and, 'No it's not dat, ..... Oi t'ink oi can see what's wrong wit de blade!'
..................
* not loik me - I'm one of dem good lookin' Micks oi iz, a skinny lanky one - wiv big ears, a long nose and face, and a big silly grin!
DESCENTI see Dubbya is claiming descent from one of the original robber barons under Henry the 8th, a Spencer, and reckons he's related to the Royal family and the Churchill's!
Well so do we all - have aristocartic forebears that is - especially if we take into account the 'Jus prima noctae', and go back that far to boot, how many other thousands of ancestors at the same level of the tree would he have, and who were they? and why aren't they telling
Thousands of course, it's basic binary maths.
Why this could be used, in a supposedly republican country, to boost this man I just don't understand.
Timbo, Too puzzled to laugh
PS and just BTW - I reckon the 'french shrug' dates from 'the terror'.
;-^)}
Follow Ups:
what's a Pom? Being a brilliant audiophile, I should be able to figure it out, but can't seem to.And Dubbya is . . . well, Dubbya. That's all the explanation I can think of.
Hi Gary,geez, don'tches speak English over there?!
George Dubbya Shrub (?) - or sumfink! e's a politician, innhe, 'n ya knows wot vere like, doncha?! eh! ..... bloody pollies.
A pom is a 'pomegranate' aka 'Pommy bastard' AKA Englishman, red cheeked. They go red when they get too much sun.
Viz, a well known Aussie drinking song.
"And when I get to London, I do, I do
I'll go down to Trafalgar square
and say to old Lord Nelson,
get stuffed, get stuffed,
you one-eyed Pommy bastard!"
Timbo
My education has been furthered and I can rest now. Another reason I can rest is that I finally got the kitchen painting finished today - 3 1/2 bloody weeks. That's the reason for the delay in reply.Thanks for the info.
(And though pommy was beyond me, the one-eyed reference I understand. Perhaps I'm not hopeless after all.)
Whether it was Lucy, or Eve!
And another thing, d'you know where the two fingered 'up you, for the rent' salute comes from. Aka the V for Victory and then Peace salute, but with the hand turned around - palm to the rear.Twas the longbow men of old England, whose attitude to aristocratic knights was probably somewhat affected by the French knight's habit of cutting off the draw fingers of any English archers they captured.
Hence their cheeky use of the 'up yours' salute on the battlefields of Crecy and again at Agincourt, as they slaughtered these stupid haughty aristocrats, charging into their fire.
Next week:- the origins of saluting!
Brought to you by your friendly local Oz sceptic and democratic despiser of received authority.
;-)}
timbo!
Between Bushy boy's warmongering and North Korea's we'll be practicing hiding under our desks again in a few days!I thought that Sting's, "Do the Russians love Their Children too" was passe'. I guess we'll always have old fools desiring young men to die for them.
it can't be helped.:o)
mp
When are we going to have a war fought only by people who sign up for it. That should put an end to it - forever. War suffers greatly from the Little Red Hen Syndrome.
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