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Dec. 30th, 2004 10:41 amOh my goodness.
I am still wading my way through the enormous book on the wives of King Henry VIII and there are some moments that really show what an asshole Henry was and what a total bitch Anne Boleyn was. Even before Henry was divorced from Catherine of Aragon; Anne demanded her jewels. Henry totally being lead by his penis did it. He sent a messenger (he didn't have the balls to do it himself) to Catherine and made her hand over the jewels that were hers by right as Queen. That just pissed me off so much when I read that.
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Last night we watched a fairly entertaining retrospective on the early years of "The Secret Policemen's Ball" which was a fundraiser/show for Amnesty International. In the earliest shows members of Monty Python and Beyond the Fringe performed these hilarious half-assed stage shows to raise awareness and money. They showed this screamingly funny film of Peter Cook performing as a judge in "Entirely a Matter for You". (it was in reference to the Jeremy Thorpe trial where the Judge ordered the jury to bring back a verdict of Not-guilty just because of who the individual being charged was) To see him perform it in all its glory was too much. It seems the line "an admitted player of the pink oboe" was a line that Billy Connolly came up with when they were trying to think of a clever term for a homosexual.
Oh I nearly peed my pants. Genius stuff.
What is up with LJ sending me comments from people that hark all the way back to October?
Now to make sure all of the guest rooms have the proper number of towels and enough toilet paper.
I am still wading my way through the enormous book on the wives of King Henry VIII and there are some moments that really show what an asshole Henry was and what a total bitch Anne Boleyn was. Even before Henry was divorced from Catherine of Aragon; Anne demanded her jewels. Henry totally being lead by his penis did it. He sent a messenger (he didn't have the balls to do it himself) to Catherine and made her hand over the jewels that were hers by right as Queen. That just pissed me off so much when I read that.
...
Last night we watched a fairly entertaining retrospective on the early years of "The Secret Policemen's Ball" which was a fundraiser/show for Amnesty International. In the earliest shows members of Monty Python and Beyond the Fringe performed these hilarious half-assed stage shows to raise awareness and money. They showed this screamingly funny film of Peter Cook performing as a judge in "Entirely a Matter for You". (it was in reference to the Jeremy Thorpe trial where the Judge ordered the jury to bring back a verdict of Not-guilty just because of who the individual being charged was) To see him perform it in all its glory was too much. It seems the line "an admitted player of the pink oboe" was a line that Billy Connolly came up with when they were trying to think of a clever term for a homosexual.
Oh I nearly peed my pants. Genius stuff.
What is up with LJ sending me comments from people that hark all the way back to October?
Now to make sure all of the guest rooms have the proper number of towels and enough toilet paper.
