03-10-2018, 06:29 PM
(03-10-2018, 12:24 PM)Graham Sumner Wrote: 1066 used to be a date that "every British schoolboy knew".
When I was a boy (we're talking late-1940s, very early-50s), one of my comics ran a cartoon history of the Saxons and very funny it was too. I recall that one story was of Ethelred the Unready. However, when they came to the Norman Conquest, I wondered, even as a 7- or 8-year old, how they would get around Harold being killed by an arrow in the eye, hardly a subject for comedy. The solution was ingenious and amusing. Due to a logistical cock-up, the Normans were supplied not with arrows but with marrows. So Harold was knocked out by being hit in the eye by a marrow.
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
