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[conculture] CHAT: Queen Di (was: this'n'that)
- To: "Raymond A. Brown" <[email protected]>
- Subject: [conculture] CHAT: Queen Di (was: this'n'that)
- From: John Cowan <[email protected]>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:01:07 -0400
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From: John Cowan <[email protected]>
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 :)
Wow. And did the North American League's General Moderator, John F.
Kennedy, really say "I am a jelly doughnut", too?
Anyhow, over *there* the Mountbatten family kept its original style of
Battenberg, I figure.
> >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).
The scurrilous press has used a variant of this rhyme to accuse
her Majesty of, er, perversion. There is no truth in this whatever.
Even if there were, it is not a crime in England, thanks to Queen
Victoria P.'s well-known "pocket veto" of the relevant Bill.
> 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!"
Not her style, I think. Anyway, Voltaire remains Voltaire.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected]
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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