Prince Andrew

[Pross]

Trump has said that 'having been fully exonerated of any wrongdoing himself' he feels sad for the Royal Family. Do you think he reaches a point where he believes the stuff he makes up or just hopes if he says it enough others will believe it?

 

[First Aspect]

I eat my peas with honey,
I've done so all my life.
It makes them taste quite funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.

We need to let Victorian etiquette go. It was mainly devised to show people up who weren't in the right class.

Squishing peas against a fork held the wrong way around, for example, clearly defies the function of the curvature of the implement and serves only to reduce the number of peas that can be successfully conveyed, whilst maximising the number of casualties en route.

This is really all I have to say on the matter.

 

[Ian H]

We need to let Victorian etiquette go. It was mainly devised to show people up who weren't in the right class.

Squishing peas against a fork held the wrong way around, for example, clearly defies the function of the curvature of the implement and serves only to reduce the number of peas that can be successfully conveyed, whilst maximising the number of casualties en route.

This is really all I have to say on the matter.

You're striking out a rich vein of humour there.

 

[secretsqirrel]

It is, but one that stinks/stank of implied superiority, so not quite "like any other".

Fair, the kicking back element is missing.

 

[secretsqirrel]

We need to let Victorian etiquette go. It was mainly devised to show people up who weren't in the right class.

Squishing peas against a fork held the wrong way around, for example, clearly defies the function of the curvature of the implement and serves only to reduce the number of peas that can be successfully conveyed, whilst maximising the number of casualties en route.

This is really all I have to say on the matter.

Ugh…thats like having them chewed before putting them in your mouth, thus missing out on the divine texture of the little spherical tender objects.

 

[briantrumpet]

I eat my peas with honey,
I've done so all my life.
It makes them taste quite funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.

Haha. Sounds a bit Milliganish...

 

[Ian H]

Haha. Sounds a bit Milliganish...

For some reason I thought it was by an American, but checking this morning I find no reliable attribution, just this note:-
This poem was recited on the February 2, 1944 broadcast of the radio program "It Pays to Be Ignorant." According to the Estate of Shel Silverstein and the archivists who oversee his literary works and manuscripts, Shel Silverstein did not write this poem.

 

[icowden]

Haha. Sounds a bit Milliganish...

It does. I think it's also been misattributed to Pam Ayres as well.

 

[briantrumpet]

It does. I think it's also been misattributed to Pam Ayres as well.

And Ogden Nash, apparently.

 

[All uphill]

Scent.

Whew (gosh?)

Thanks for that, another faux Pas sidestepped dochaknow

 

[BoldonLad]

Also…
Say ‘napkin’ not ‘serviette’
and ‘What?‘ ‘not ‘pardon?’

using either of those things defines you as posh 😊

 

[briantrumpet]

 

[BoldonLad]

Many years ago, one of our most feared/respected teachers was apt to go into apoplexy over this. He seemed to be modelled on Windsor Davies' Sergeant Major. He sang opera and his voice could carry across the entire school (and this was a large school) as well as over 800 boys singing hymns in assembly. He was a lovely chap but very old school. The more intelligent time wasters hitched on to the fact that he absolutely loved to regale us with anecdotes rather than actually teach, so they would always try to divert him into a story. He was also the final teacher to smoke a pipe in class - he was still doing it throughout the 80s.

Apparently when the school went co-ed and there was a directive to use pupils first names instead of surnames, he blithely ignored it preferring <surname> for boys and Miss <surname> for girls.

But say "pardon" if you didn't need pardoning for something was, in his book, a most heinous crime.

"SAY WHAT BOY. IF YOU HAVEN'T COMMITTED A CRIME OR A SIN YOU DON'T NEED A PARDON".

In one of my early Jobs, the Company Accountant, used that terminology for adults, ie <surname> for men, and Miss <surname> for women, this would ahve been in the late 1970s

 

[Ian H]

using either of those things defines you as posh 😊

I use both and I'm not 'posh'.

 

[Ian H]

And Ogden Nash, apparently.

Yes! That's what I've seen in a compilation somewhere.