Richard the Third

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cockney rhyming slang is usually in a two word phrase, the second of which rhymes with the word it's slang for. When one word is used it's usually the first word of the phrase. e.g. 'Berk' = 'Berkely Hunt' = ****. I don't know what the second word after 'Richard' might be.

"the Third" ( = "bird", according to a Ronnie Barker sketch).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij5mw_eqKuc

[subcontrabass]

Date now set for the re-burial: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-28687107

[BBMmk2]

Yes I saw that and hope top go. At last getting a just funeral for a monarch. I doubt wether the Queen be going?

[amateur51]

Yes I saw that and hope top go. At last getting a just funeral for a monarch. I doubt wether the Queen be going?

No I'll be stopping in, got the podiatrist coming

[french frank]

Is it just me, or can anyone else see ghosts hovering round the tomb in that photo

[amateur51]

Is it just me, or can anyone else see ghosts hovering round the tomb in that photo

I can see disembodied human shapes but I guess that they are figboxes of Messrs van Heyningen & Haward's software

[Angle]

Surely, someone ought to have apologised for his death by now - or will that come at the burial?

[vinteuil]

Surely, someone ought to have apologised for his death by now - or will that come at the burial?

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o, all right. I'm sorry; no, truly sorry, - for all that I did that brought about the death of Richard III. And also for anything I may have done that caused harm to Marie-Antoinette, and for my rôle in the Great Fire of London, the loss of the Marie-Celeste, and for my unforgiveable involvement in the case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, - but sadly that is a story for which the world is not yet prepared....

[mangerton]

.........the case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, - but sadly that is a story for which the world is not yet prepared....

That's been the excuse for well over a hundred years, and I think it's wearing a bit thin now. Do we have any indication of when the world will be prepared?

If Messrs Gatiss and Moffat read this, they might like to take note!

[BBMmk2]

I do hope tis interment, will b a solemn and dignified one, well suited for a monarch. I( can't believe that since 1485, he was buried in this way!0

[Angle]

Many thanks, Vinteuil. Much appreciated :)

[Pabmusic]

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o, all right. I'm sorry; no, truly sorry, - for all that I did that brought about the death of Richard III. And also for anything I may have done that caused harm to Marie-Antoinette, and for my rôle in the Great Fire of London, the loss of the Marie-Celeste, and for my unforgiveable involvement in the case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, - but sadly that is a story for which the world is not yet prepared....

I think you have forgotten the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (and Mrs FF - how could you at this time?), the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the arrival of the 'gentleman from Porlock' and King Alfred's failure to keep an eye on the oven. But nothing as reprehensible as the appearance of the serpent in the garden. All those years of Original Sin…

[amateur51]

I think you have forgotten the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (and Mrs FF - how could you at this time?), the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the arrival of the 'gentleman from Porlock' and King Alfred's failure to keep an eye on the oven. But nothing as reprehensible as the appearance of the serpent in the garden. All those years of Original Sin…

At my age any sin committed is scarcely original, much of it being repetitive from way back but none the less enjoyable for all that

[Pabmusic]

At my age any sin committed is scarcely original, much of it being repetitive from way back but none the less enjoyable for all that

None of my sins has ever approached originality.

[Ockeghem's Razor]

Mass in the Sarum Rite at the ceremony, one hopes, a thrill for all Percy Dearmer fans.