Do NOT, repeat, NOT return yourselves to the UK - which is fast turning
into a cosy little authoritarian state itself. No doubt some on this
list, denizens of that benighted country, land of my birth, will confirm
this.
I did not mean Mary, it was some less celebrated & younger lady who was
reported as saying, I remember the whole quote now "I've been a good
girl - can I go home now?"
mj
Ken Wolman wrote:
> MJ Walker wrote:
>
>> Pretty close, Ken, the quote - 2 lines :
>> "and the Republic summons Ike,
>> the mausoleum in her heart."
>
>
> Close enough for government work, I suppose. It's that mausoleum in her
> heart thing that gets to me...it's pure genius.
>
>> Is your girlfriend by any chance quoting that lady who was getting her
>> head chopped off during the Tudor period - the headsman missed her neck
>> & sliced off a piece of her head, whereupon she raised her head and said
>> "Can..." I read this years ago in some history of British execution &
>> torture.
>
>
> Aha. Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots. I'd read that the headsman, who must
> have been a real klutz, missed her neck on the first stroke and took a
> chunk of the back of her head, then kept on hacking until he got it
> done--supposedly two more strokes. At least Henry VIII had the decency
> to accord Anne Boleyn a skilled French swordsman who didn't have to
> wield some 20-pound meat cleaver. On the first stroke, Mary was heard
> to murmur "Sweet Jesus!" or something like that. I suppose that's
> reasonable given the circumstances. You are joking about her final
> words, but in a sad way "Can I go home now?" would also be an
> appropriate expression for a woman being dismembered by an incompetent
> on the orders of her cousin who'd never met her, pace Schiller,
> Donizetti, Thirties Hollywood, and whoever else got into the act.
> Depends on what a devout Catholic like Mary meant my "home" or "Home."
>
> The official version is that when the headsman went to display her head
> to the onlookers in the castle, her wig fell off, revealing gray hair.
> She was 44 years old and I believe had been imprisoned for 18 years.
> Then again, my hair went gray in my 20s and I only spent one day in jail
> in my life.
>
> Given the dog stories of earlier this week, the fate of Mary's Skye
> terrier is the saddest aspect. The dog cowered under his mistress's
> skirt during the beheading, was found bloodied afterwards, would not
> leave her, was washed, but starved himself to death. Dogs....
>
>> The better half of the US American nation has my profoundest sympathy.
>> Couldn't you secede?
>
>
> I have considered whether we could return ourselves to the UK.
> Something like "Oh well, that Revolution wasn't quite what we planned,
> would you like to start with Arkansas and West Virginia?" and reannex
> ourselves. However, would someone send Prince Harry to Tierra del Fuego
> first? The kid's brain seems never to have quite developed in whatever
> area controls morality or not acting like a public asshole. Elizabeth
> must be so proud. Philip must be looking in the mirror.
>
> Ken
>
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