Richard the Third

[Flosshilde]

None of my sins has ever approached originality.

Are there any original ones left? I would have thought that any sin one could come up with has already been committed.

(Are sins like plots for stories - supposedly there are only 7 or 8 original ones; every story written is a variation on one of them)

[Flosshilde]

None of my sins has ever approached originality.

Or perhaps you haven't been trying hard enough

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Derivative sin can be fun, too.

[Flosshilde]

Of course.


(I do feel that we need Scotty in these discussions)

[Flosshilde]

All this reminds me of Elinor Glyn -

Would you like to sin
With Elinor Glyn
On a tiger skin?
Or would you prefer
To err
With her
On some other fur?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or (for those of us of a certain age):

I have outlived
my youthfulness
so a quiet life for me

where once
I used to
scintillate

now I sin
till ten
past three

Roger McGough

[Flosshilde]

At least you're still sinning!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

At least you're still sinning!

- forgot to give the poet's name (not alas by me).

By the way, which idiot decided that "T" should go next to "R" on the keyboard? There was very nearly a most unfortunate typo with the Poet's name!

[Flosshilde]

'Roger' is nearly as bad (or even worse)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

'Roger' is nearly as bad (or even worse)

You're ... not Wrong.

[mercia]

is bbm a close relative ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-28825653

[french frank]

is bbm a close relative ?

Fascinating stuff. So there will be a new Channel 4 prog?

[Ockeghem's Razor]

I see from the BBC news website that the scientists who are examining his remains have found that he 'took to drink' when he became king. This means a bottle of wine a day, it would appear. Jings! What price H. H. 'Perrier Jouet' Asquith or Winston Churchill or any number of 18th century political lushes?

[french frank]

I see from the BBC news website that the scientists who are examining his remains have found that he 'took to drink' when he became king. This means a bottle of wine a day, it would appear. Jings! What price H. H. 'Perrier Jouet' Asquith or Winston Churchill or any number of 18th century political lushes?

Much of the research exceeded my comprehension, but I did a search on 'bottle' and couldn't find it in the paper - his intake of fluid varied in the last 2 years of his life and the argument is that this was an increase in wine (along with richer foods). Not sure about him being a 'bottle a day' man ... ?

[BBMmk2]

is bbm a close relative ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-28825653

Yes, I am!! :) Linked, anyway, via my ancestor John of Gaunt,so yes, he is an ancestor.