What the fuck's with the 'Tudor ILE' thread

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I don't get it -- can someone explain the joke?

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tetragrammatron.com/Bizarro/code.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

To the Tyburn Gallows with ye!

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, you see, it's very simple really. You see, Kate had this idea to, well, actually it's very clear, it's....uh....ah...no fucking clue.

― Skottie, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

my threads are fresh and I'm looking def
yo, wassup with the l-o-c
the girls are all jocking
at the other end of the bar
having drinks with some no-name chump
when they know that I'm the star
so I got up and strolled over
to the other side of the cantina
I asked the guy, "why you so fly?"
he said "funky cold medina"

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I blame the Hspaniards!

No, erm, actually, I BLAME NIGEL SPIVEY!!!

I've been watching Kings & Queens and way too many other programmes about English history, and well, this morning I woke up, and it was Guy Fawlkes Day, so I thought "Wouldn't it be great if I was Queen?" And, erm, it just kind of snowballed from there. So do you want a title or not? And if you want a title, you'd bloody well better contribute to my "Invade France" fund.

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i wz quite pleased w.my html = heraldry tie-up

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed today is the finest celebration of using catholics as fuel in the British Calendar.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

God that's exactly how the Tudors worked innit, buying us provincial big swinging dicks off with titles. I'll have to think on. But i'm up fer invading France whatever.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Personally, I think it's one of the best/funniest threads we've had in ages! (And not just cause I got to be Queen!)

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I got to be a scaredy kiss ass! hmph!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I'm going home in 10 minutes, if you can murder both me and Ned before midnight, then you get to be Queen for the rest of the day!

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, back off to Essex.

Oho. If only Kate lived in Essex, that wd have been a pun.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

*thinks about it* nah fuxor that! I quite enjoyed it! (not being a kiss ass, i meant...oh nevermind) ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

tudors = simultaneously destroyed english aristocracy (and old style monarchy) by handing financial reins of nation to rising bourgeoisie, and (brilliantly effectively) diluted radicalism of rising bourgeoisie (long after tudors had quite the scene) by convincing the bourg that they were actually a newer, better aristocracy

this settlement smashed by thatch haha

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Do we need to start an "I Love Discussing I Love Everything Threads" board or something? Anyway the Tudor thread is great even though I am incapable of playing along.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus, it has provided a welcome relief of Old Skool ILX pedantery amidst the muck and mire of general ILE civil war on the crush threads.

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark -- Yeah, but...

Some of that happened in the civil war
Industrial revolution changed composition of bourgie
mass literacy! quasi-socialism in ww2 etc!

Tom Nairn can fuck off.

― Lawrence Stone (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

what, are you jealous and want to start a Spanish Royal Court thread?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Good thinking -- now give us Gibraltar back (I know you haven't taken it but...) or I'll fuck youse all up you borin' puritans.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

civil war = thank thomas not oliver

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Thomas!

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, how WAS the gibraltar taken? I'm american, so the only british history i know involves either Creation Records or Tony Wilson...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's probably something to do with the Habsburgs or the Knights Templar, but I'm not sure exactly what.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

So don't you feel like being queen agaon today?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

again!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

What, Queen of Aragon? Well, I am a Katharine, but stil...

Nah. Guy Falkes Day is over. I'm back to being just a plain citizen, me.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

...but technically you are A SUBJECT my breedeesh chum...

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I am very happy to be a most loyal subject! But legally, I am still a British Citizen, thanks.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

So suzy -- it's Chaz, right?

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to think it was because this cowboy brought democracy to the Isles.

― L(E^24) (Leee), Friday, 7 November 2003 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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