Re: CHAT: con-this'n'that

[Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>]

On Fri, 14 May 1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> 
> Eh?  Battenberg's a type of cake; and scones are delicious with jam (jelly
> to you in the US) and cream   :)

You mean they're synonymous over yonder?  Down here, jam has all seeds and
skins and such (aka preserves); while jelly is basically flavored gelatin.

> 
> >when her mother abdicated in her favor, the first instance in Anglo-Scots
> >history of a Queen Regnant succeeding another Queen Regnant.
> >
> >Commonly known as the "Queen of Hearts",
> 
> who according to the well-known nursery rhyme made some tarts (only
> to have them stolen by the knave).

But by all accounts the King of Hearts called for the tarts shouting with
might and main, (as some insist); and the knave of hearts returned the
tarts (later that day), and never stole them again.

> 
> [snip]
> >Her style: Diana, First of that Name, by the Grace of God Queen of
> >England, Scotland, and France [not really, but the French Republic
> >doesn't care much these days],
> 
> Umm - Queen of France?  Maybe those words apocryphally ascribed to
> Queen Marie Antoinette *here* were really uttered *there* by Queen
> Diana of France:
> "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!"

Nah.  It was "qu'ils ne passent pas les landmines". ;)

Padraic.

> 
> Ray.
>