January 14, 2007

Henry VIII's songs, poems, and speeches. Just one small part of Luminarium, a splendid anthology of eng. lit from medieval to Restoration.
posted by Plegmund 17 years ago
  • Wonderful stuff, Plegmund. Thanks very much.
  • Great, now a bunch of us old dudes is going to have Herman's Hermits lodged in our ears now.
  • Hee hee, Vin! Tha's wattcha get fer bein' old. Very nice, once again, Pleggy. Lots to see on a bum freezing day. Anybody else suspect Plegs is trying to raise the tone in here? I'm gettin' mighty suspicious. We may have to run the bum outta MonkeyVille fer that!
  • *thinks - could be time to post that site where you have to guess from his expression which cute but voracious animal has just run up GW Bush's trouser leg*
  • (a) Squirrel. (b) Possum. (c) Gerbil. (d) A creature armed with the palpable claws of his utter failure as a policymaker, combined with the bristling fur of the knowledge of the legacy of death his ideological blindness has caused, stinking of the mutilated corpses that scream silently from the graves he dug for a generation. (e) Cheney.
  • I'm going ferret. Five separate and unconnected ferrets.
  • > Henry VIII's songs, poems, and speeches. I was expecting Greensleeves, but apparently there's no proof of his authorship.
  • And there's no mention of that song about the widow next door.
  • ...Herman's Hermits... ...widow next door... I'm old enough to remember that too, but guess what? The HH version was actually a cover of a 1911 song by the late great Harry Champion. Here's an mp3.
  • *boggles* *ceases boggling, sings "Pastyme With Good Company"*
  • *takes turn at boggling *ceases boggling, sings "Danny Boy" *ceases singing, looks around, slinks out of thread
  • *snif* I'm sorry . . I always cry when GramMa sings "Danny Boy" *sob*
  • *ceases boggling, sings "Pastyme With Good Company"* I totally read that as something else. Good company, indeed...