Richard the Third

[vinteuil]

Cummerbund.

Madonna : "Ooh, yeah, you’re the one with the strange name!"
Benedict Cumberbatch: "Yes, I am, - Madonna."

[P. G. Tipps]

May HM King Richard III now RIP and be with his maker.

I agree, Bbm!

Let's face it, he certainly deserves a break after doing all that time in Purgatory ... ?

[BBMmk2]

I shall be scanning my post eagerly after the summer for signs of an embossed invitation to lunch from the SW1A postal district!!

The rise of The Royal House of Plantagenet will come again!

[P. G. Tipps]

Her full name is Madonna Louise Ciccone. 'Madonna' isn't particularly strange as a Christian name in Catholic communities, just as 'Jesus' isn't - http://belcantovocalstudio.vpweb.com/Jesus-Garcia.html.

How many Catholics do you know strutting the mean streets of Glasgow with these names, Flossie ... ?

The Latin races have always been a pretty pretentious lot ...

[Serial_Apologist]

The rise of The Royal House of Plantagenet will come again!

Are you intending to plant a gene then, BBM?

[french frank]

Are you intending to plant a gene then, BBM?

Planta genista is broom, so it would be a new broom.

[Flosshilde]

The rise of The Royal House of Plantagenet will come again!

If this

Breaking News! Royal Scandal! New DNA testing throws the whole legitimacy of the Plantagenets into doubt due to 'false paternity' results!
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...-royal-scandal

is correct, then the Plantagenets shouldn't have been a royal house in the first place.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Listening to the News Quiz on R4 tonight I was vastly taken by a suggestion from an American panellist that Leicester Cathedral might institute the practice of digging up RIII early every spring.

If he can't see his own shadow we can expect another 6 weeks of wintry weather

[Ferretfancy]

I agree, Bbm!

Let's face it, he certainly deserves a break after doing all that time in Purgatory ... ?

Didn't they get rid of Purgatory a few years ago? Or was it Limbo? In any case, where did all those souls go, was there some sort of statute of limitations?

[Ferretfancy]

Listening to the News Quiz on R4 tonight I was vastly taken by a suggestion from an American panellist that Leicester Cathedral might institute the practice of digging up RIII early every spring.

If he can't see his own shadow we can expect another 6 weeks of wintry weather

According to the Bard he had it all worked out.

"Shine out fair sun !
And be my looking glass
That I might spy my shadow as I pass ! "

[BBMmk2]

If this

is correct, then the Plantagenets shouldn't have been a royal house in the first place.

Like an earlier post said, in those days, it was who could bash someone's head in the hardest!