Was there ever a King Robt. ?
― pplains, Thursday, 16 April 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
The Wikipedia entry for Cockayne Hatley seems to lie right on the seam between fact and fiction.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:51 (four years ago) link
Many historical records utilise standard abbreviations of given names in order to save time and paper.
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:59 (four years ago) link
No period on Wm/Robt - it's only if the abbreviation ends on a different letter than the original word.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 April 2020 06:52 (four years ago) link
Ah, I see that's covered by the link, sorry.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 April 2020 06:53 (four years ago) link
I assume whoever captioned the photo of "the far end of the village" lives at what they consider to be the near end of the village.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 16 April 2020 07:53 (four years ago) link
Re: Wm, etc., contraction vs abbreviation, innit.Seeing a full stop / period after "Dr", "Rd", "Mt" etc. is like nails on a chalkboard for me. Fuck "American usage", a period signifies that the word is cut off.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 16 April 2020 08:00 (four years ago) link
(xp)
No buses serve the village. The nearest railway stations are Biggleswade and Sandy.
DO YOU SEE?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 09:00 (four years ago) link
Biggleswade is also an adjective there, hope that helps.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 16 April 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
I have JUST learnt that Romy Schneider MIGHT be Adolf Hitler's daughter ! Apparently it was more or less known since the mid 70s...
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 16 April 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link
No way, she was far too good looking!
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
Well, I love her, but with that in mind, when you look at some of her pictures...To be more precise about that, I have just learnt that she has declared in the 70s that her mother was in love with AH and had an affair with him (circa the time of her birth)... and then they moved to a house right next to his eagle's nest (her mother also had affairs with other Nazi leaders... a nice woman apparently !).
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:11 (four years ago) link
So she has spent a lot of time at AH's nest during her childhood...
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:12 (four years ago) link
Having done a bit of googling, she does resemble her mother - those wide set eyes - and her father (the real one, not Hitler) was extremely good looking, so, on no scientific basis whatsoever, I'm dismissing the Hitler theory.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link
I cycle through Cockayne Hatley quite often - it has a very interesting church with some lovely Flemish misericords! Interesting fact: not only did Margaret Henley indirectly invent Wendy, her dad, William Henley was Stevenson's model for LONG JOHN SILVER.
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
WTF!!!!!
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:44 (four years ago) link
It doesn't seem impossible imo... But of course, we'll never know and that's for the best !https://images.app.goo.gl/wb9RsCRm4v5ST2dw9
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
Needs a moustache to be sure.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
interested easy-to-miss note on the never-not-interesting treasure island: long john silver's wife -- who doesn't appear in person -- is black
(also his plan when he gets back the england with the treasure is BECOME AN MP lol)
― mark s, Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link
Not a Tory MP I assume, if his wife is black he'd never get past the selection committee.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
They'd never go for it at the Cockayne Hatley Conservative Association.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
but what if he had money
― mark s, Thursday, 16 April 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
also everyone was a whig then
― mark s, Thursday, 16 April 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
Being a venture capitalist with considerable financial interests in the Spanish Main might swing them, it's true.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link
Steven Pinker is Canadian.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 April 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
This is very Barry Lyndon
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 16 April 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
mark s., if you don't mind some trashy TV, you should check out Black Sails, which is a fairly entertaining take on Treasure Island.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 16 April 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
Also a fairly entertaing song by Harry Nilsson.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Further muddying the Wendy waters, it occurs to me there is actually a hamlet called Wendy, not far from Cockayne Hatley, part of a parish properly called Shingay cum Wendy. The church in Wendy is less grand but quite cute.
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 16 April 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
put this stuff directly into my veins
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 April 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
Cockayne Hatley and Shingay cum Wendy, the ultimate drag power couple.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 16 April 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
Related, the Rona chain of hardware stores is also Canadian and, thus, the ilx thread about rona moving in is in fact about the coronavirus and not about ilxors who have caught the bug of doing home renovations during their time in isolation.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Friday, 17 April 2020 00:06 (four years ago) link
If you inject whole villages into your arms aren't they going to come with a large number of impurities. Wouldn't think that very healthy like.& might indicate your habit was getting out of hand, like.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 18 April 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
wait does heroin kill coronavirus
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
I dunno ask tracer.Didn't Burroughs say something about it killing the common cold?
― Stevolende, Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
haha wait a minute
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
say nothin tracer get a lawyer immediately
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
He's my go-to guy when it comes to minor ailments and illnesses tbf.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
William S. Burroughs that is, not Tracer.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
“New discoveries and products are suppressed because they threaten vested interests. The medical profession is suppressing Reich’s orgone accumulator and his discoveries relative to the use and dangers of orgonic energy. They are suppressing the use of massive doses of Vitamin E for the prevention of the heart disease, the use of massive doses of Vitamin A for curing the common cold. (I have used this simple remedy for thirty years and it works. […] At the first soreness in the throat which presages the onslaught of a common cold you take 500,000 units of Vitamin A. Vitamin A alone. Not Vitamin C which is quite worthless for a cold. At one time I had thought to market this remedy but was told it could not be marketed by because the American Medical Association is opposed to self-medication. The AMA is opposed to self-medication if it works.) The medical profession is suppressing the use of apomorphine for the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction and for the general regulation of disturbed metabolism. The medical profession has a vested interest in illness. They suppress any discovery that strikes at the roots of illness.”- William S Burroughs, The Job
- William S Burroughs, The Job
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
Not to praise the AMA, but that just makes Burroughs sound like a garden variety crank.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
Which he more or less was?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
"take 500 000 units of Vitamin A"You might need to eat a few more carrots than Bugs Bunny has for his lunch to get that many units(?) in yourself.
― calzino, Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
p sure it's toxic in high quantities, some of the polar explorers died or became extremely ill from absorbing too much when supplies were low and they had to eat their huskies (inc.their livers in particular)
― mark s, Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
yes, also polar bears. Anything that eats meat has a poisonous liver.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
yes (tho the ones i had in mind were in the antarctic, so no bears on hand)
― mark s, Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
Apart from the flying pink bears Scott was having a chat with.
― calzino, Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
xp sth sth sth can't get the wrappers off
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
well my comment was about Tracer saying inject this straight into my veins referring to comments about the village of Wendy, which is probably not a very heavy intravenous injection, like.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
healthy like, not heavy. Though an entire village probably has weight.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link