Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make money'

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Re: Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make mone

Post by lofuji » Mon Mar 23, 2015 12:07 pm

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They wear purple.

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Now you know where the name comes from. I know at least one person from Penrith who now lives in Penrith.

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Re: Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make mone

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Mar 23, 2015 6:19 pm

lofuji wrote:My claim takes precedence. I grew up in a small market town in the north of England called Penrith, where the future Richard III, then Duke of Gloucester, lived in the 1470s. My local pub isn't called the Gloucester Arms for nothing.
Surely the people of Gloucester have a far stronger claim?
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Re: Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make mone

Post by lofuji » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:37 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
lofuji wrote:My claim takes precedence. I grew up in a small market town in the north of England called Penrith, where the future Richard III, then Duke of Gloucester, lived in the 1470s. My local pub isn't called the Gloucester Arms for nothing.
Surely the people of Gloucester have a far stronger claim?
As far as I'm aware, he never even visited Gloucester, let alone lived there. His was merely a courtesy title.
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Re: Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make mone

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:46 pm

Bosworth Field? What a bloody shambles! My mother could have done a better job with a stick of rhubarb! etc. etc. etc... /boycott
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Post by lofuji » Tue Mar 24, 2015 1:59 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Bosworth Field? What a bloody shambles! My mother could have done a better job with a stick of rhubarb! etc. etc. etc... /boycott
...and caught the winter of our discontent in her pinny. York played at that one much too soon, allowing himself to be deceived by the late swing of Tudor.
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Post by Hermit » Tue Mar 24, 2015 7:31 am

Should have bowled the yorker.
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Post by jamest » Fri Mar 27, 2015 11:37 pm

To be fair, Leicester is a bit of a toilet. Apt to have a Richard III there.

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Re: Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make mone

Post by Calilasseia » Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:27 am

jamest wrote:To be fair, Leicester is a bit of a toilet. Apt to have a Richard III there.
:lol: :funny: :roflol: :coffeespray:

Fucking hell, this is an inspired bit of comedy!

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Re: Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make mone

Post by Rum » Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:23 am

There's a pretty big campaign in York which wants Richard's dug up and reburied in York.

..to make money for York of course..

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Re: Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make mone

Post by jamest » Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:16 pm

Calilasseia wrote:
jamest wrote:To be fair, Leicester is a bit of a toilet. Apt to have a Richard III there.
:lol: :funny: :roflol: :coffeespray:

Fucking hell, this is an inspired bit of comedy!
You're the only one who got the joke. Too many bloody foreigners on here.

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Post by Svartalf » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:35 pm

care to explain for the benefit of the ign'ant?
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Post by jamest » Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:39 pm

Svartalf wrote:care to explain for the benefit of the ign'ant?
It's to do with cockney rhyming slang*. Richard III = turd.

Does anything similar happen in France?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang

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Re: Boycott claims Leicester wants Richard III to 'make mone

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat Mar 28, 2015 11:49 pm

jamest wrote:
Svartalf wrote:care to explain for the benefit of the ign'ant?
It's to do with cockney rhyming slang*. Richard III = turd.

Does anything similar happen in France?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang
Probably. As in, "Oooh, you bastit! You kicked me in the Charles de Gaulles!"
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