Mary of Teck ...

[Stillhomewardbound]

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[Sydney Grew]

Osborne,
Dec. 21, 1891.

MY DEAR ARCHBISHOP, - I must thank you very much for your kind letter, and congratulations on the engagement of my dear grandson Albert Victor to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, which promises to be a happy union. "May" is a charming girl, with much sense and amiability and very unfrivolous, so that I have every hope the young people will set an example of a steady, quiet life, which, alas, is not the fashion in these days. The wedding is to be at St. George's Chapel, on the 27th February. I hope you will perform the ceremony.

In conclusion, let me ask you to accept the accompanying card and [sic] with best wishes for Christmas and New Year for yourself and family.

I am,
Ever yours affly,

VICTORIA R. & I.

[Angle]

Tacky Teck Toque takes Tick Tock?

Well, it IS August.

[Flosshilde]

a steady, quiet life, which, alas, is not the fashion in these days.

Hmm, I wonder who she could have been thinking of?

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[vinteuil]

Tacky Teck Toque takes Tick Tock?

.

We hear surprisingly little of her butcher brother, "Biff" Teck...

[Coat already on.]

[MickyD]

We hear surprisingly little of her butcher brother, "Biff" Teck...

[Coat already on.]

Not to mention the distant oriental cousin who made important early discoveries in electronics - Hai-Teck.

[Flosshilde]

We hear surprisingly little of her butcher brother, "Biff" Teck...

[Coat already on.]

There's always her daughter, born after an unexpected night of passion with her husband - little Miss Teck.

(are we morphing into the Royalty Ball from 'I'm Sorry, I haven't a clue'?)

[mangerton]

Not to mention the distant oriental cousin who made important early discoveries in electronics - Hai-Teck.

Indeed. He founded a large dynasty - too numerous to mention individually - who are all known as teckies.

[Stillhomewardbound]

No, you're getting confused. You're thinking of Mary of Trek, not Teck.

Now, stop this silliness all of you. You're just teck-ing the michael!

[Flosshilde]

Presumably Prince Philip missed out on the genes of that particular branch of the Royal Family - he's well known for being Teck-tless.

[gurnemanz]

Indeed. He founded a large dynasty - too numerous to mention individually - who are all known as teckies.

...stretching even as far as Mexico - the Aztecs.

[Richard Tarleton]

There's always her daughter, born after an unexpected night of passion with her husband - little Miss Teck.

Almost certainly after a few too many gin and teck-tonics. These lethal cocktails were well known for causing the earth to move

(sorry it's been a long day in the office)

[Flosshilde]

I do think that some of these peurile puns (not my own, of course) are tantamount to breaking the house rules, in that they are Tecking the p**s out of someone's name; a crime made even more heinous as the Royal Family do not, by convention, respond to criticism (not to mention the fact that the lady concerned is dead) (as someone has pointed out elsewhere, even the dead can be defamed).

[vinteuil]

Flosshilde is organising a Pro-Tecktion Racket - so as to prevent any further Pun-ishment....

[scottycelt]

The celebrated lady's name certainly lives on in parts of Scotland.

After midnight, outside superior hostelries on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, the following refrain is oft encountered ..

'O you'll teck the high road,
and I'll teck the low road .. '