On an NPR station, a local announcer running through the PBS schedule described a series about British royalty in which the host “gets into bed with our past monarchs.”
First: ick. Second: our monarchs? That bit of copy should have been rewritten for this side of the Atlantic.
The series, as I now know, is Tales from the Royal Bedchamber. It’s about their monarchs. And again, about the gets-into-bed-with part: ick.
[About “the Atlantic”: I refuse to say “the pond.”]
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Anglophilia amok
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I do love Lucy Worsley though.
Anglophilia is squicky, but have you seen the memes about the queen taking back the USA, saying we've proved we can't take care of nice things?
Oh--Borowitz wrote one of them, which I bet you saw:
www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/queen-offers-to-restore-british-rule-over-united-states
Yes, I liked that.
Of course, they have Brexit so it'd just be a case of out of the frying pan...
Yes, but Borowitz’s QEII reassures us: “Parliament would play no role in this deal. This would be an old-school monarchy.”
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