RMweb Gold Regularity Posted May 26, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2021 59 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Someone once described the Republican Tea Party movement as "UKIP with guns" If we could get them to form a circular firing squad, that might have some useful merit... 4 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 21 hours ago, Regularity said: If we could get them to form a circular firing squad, that might have some useful merit... No prizes for guessing who should be in the centre! Jim 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 As a sneak preview of my upcoming wheeltappers thread "For those interested in rabbits that look like politicians" here's Boris Johnson. 5 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 I'll let you into a secret: For years, I had a long-running serial bedtime story, initially for my son, latterly for youngest daughter, which revolved around the adventures of "King Rat of the Moon", based heavily on BJ, and "The Old Majick Squirrel", based on Sir Peter Hendy. In brief, King Rat is a benignly dim and incredibly lazy character, who grew-up as an ordinary London rat, with delusions of grandeur, believing himself to be a king by rights. He found that the only place that didn't already have a royal dynasty, and wasn't a republic, was the moon, so settled there, in the castle abandoned by the giant of "Jack and the Beanstalk" fame, to rule over that otherwise deserted satellite. The squirrel is the clever one, a sort of alchemist, who does all the practical work and saves the day when the rat creates untold havoc with his blunders . There are lots of other characters, including a stereotypically Aussie koala, but no rabbits, I'm afraid. 9 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 15 hours ago, Caley Jim said: No prizes for guessing who should be in the centre! Jim Wouldn't need a target, that lot.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted May 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2021 You should publish those stories, Kevin, I think you’d be the next J K Rowling. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 12 minutes ago, Northroader said: You should publish those stories, Kevin, I think you’d be the next J K Rowling. What a dead-eyed transphobic troll? But, yes, I was rather thinking how engaging and original that scenario was and how children's literature was rather missing out on Kevin's imagination. 1 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 15 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: As a sneak preview of my upcoming wheeltappers thread "For those interested in rabbits that look like politicians" here's Boris Johnson. Won't do, its too good looking! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Had to share with parishioners this wonderful phrase, heard just now on R4, I think quoting the Washington Post's description of a certain D Trump's social media outpourings as "a sousaphone of lies''. So, Good Morning West Norfolk! (you may wish to turn your volume UP!)i 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Edwardian said: "a sousaphone of lies''. If I was a descendant of J.P. Sousa or J.W. Pepper I would be suing for defamation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Compound2632 said: If I was a descendant of J.P. Sousa or J.W. Pepper I would be suing for defamation. Well, the thing is, the descendant hasn't been libelled and it is trite law that one cannot slander the dead. There was a case brought by descendants on behalf of Vlad the Impaler, fed up of all this vampire slander. It failed, thus we now know that, additionally, one cannot slander the undead. 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2021 25 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Well, the thing is, the descendant hasn't been libelled and it is trite law that one cannot slander the dead. I thought it was a moral imperative rather than a legal impossibility to speak ill of the dead but I suppose I knew the paper would get off on a mere technicality*. But perhaps it's just as well, since I'm sure there are many things Tsar Ivan IV was actually quite good at, whilst yet another airing of the ways in which his successor the Empress Catherine was great would be at least unedifying, if not harmful to public morals. *As readers of Pratchett know, being dead is a mere technicality. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 25 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: *As readers of Pratchett know, being dead is a mere technicality. Especially, of course, in my learned profession. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Especially, of course, in my learned profession. Now I come to think of it, according to J.K. Rowling, also in mine. So the fact that I'm still posting arcane information about the Midland Railway is no proof of my continued viability. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Compound2632 said: Empress Catherine was great would be at least unedifying, if not harmful to public morals. Wasn't she famous for paying her ex-lovers huge pensions? Sounds quite progressive, in its own way. Or, maybe simply the price of discretion. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Nearholmer said: Wasn't she famous for paying her ex-lovers huge pensions? Sounds quite progressive, in its own way. Or, maybe simply the price of discretion. Nice work if you can get it 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Have you seen portraits of her? Possibly more of a public duty. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 1 minute ago, Nearholmer said: Have you seen portraits of her? Possibly more of a public duty. Pro bono publico? In the great traditions of the Bar, never turn down a brief! 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 I turned down briefs once...never again, most uncomfortable! 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Edwardian said: Especially, of course, in my learned profession. No promotion for sure, the dead men are still filling their shoes... 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 (edited) 16 hours ago, Edwardian said: Had to share with parishioners this wonderful phrase, heard just now on R4, I think quoting the Washington Post's description of a certain D Trump's social media outpourings as "a sousaphone of lies''. ...provides the perfect accompaniment for right wing loonies. Edited June 5, 2021 by monkeysarefun 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 This, now vintage, advert is as relevant today as it was in 2016 2 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 21 hours ago, Nearholmer said: Wasn't she famous for paying her ex-lovers huge pensions? Sounds quite progressive, in its own way. Or, maybe simply the price of discretion. Certainly preferable to the fate of old cart horses that were no longer up to it, of being sent to the knacker man to be rendered down as glue and other by-products. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 I’ve not heard the rumours about Catherine the Great and cart horses. Is that what Compound was protecting us from? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 11 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: ...provides the perfect accompaniment for right wing loonies. Is that piece of music entitled "The march of the morons"?. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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