Joyce ,'Chosen'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yeah, but as an English teacher you don't get to award yourself a new title for telling people how many times they said "um".
Dude, I teach public speaking and don't even get that. I are doin' it wrong.
Well, except for clapping of course. I applaud speakers anywhere else, I'm not going to be less courteous tosomeone who's trying to learn.
Yep. I require it in my class. We clap. We're clappers.
Saxe-Coburg-Goethe was Prince Albert's title, so Victoria was the last of the House of Hanover, Edward was the only S-C-G, and then we get the Windsors, with George changing the name to Windsor in WWI.
Damn, I miss the Tudors and Plantagenets.
ChiKat, they were all self-imposed titles, except for Lady Miss G.
Peter O'Toole is so classic that hardly anyone comments on the double phallus-y.
Consider the soon-to-be Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson, whose nickname was The Big Unit.
None more phallicsome!
((Seska))
If I were a current British politician and the Queen wished to drop a word in my ear re: a situation, I'd be inclined to at least listen to a woman who has been a close observer of the political world for 60 years.
There's definitely a lot of German there. I forget the names of the family before they called themselves Windsor.
The family name was Hanover; however, Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and their children (including the next king, Edward VII) were of that House. George V took the name Windsor when Britain wound up fighting Germany in WWI.
X-post, of course.
My favorite part of doing geneology was finding out I am desecnded from Henry II (played by Peter O'Toole) and Eleanor of Aquitaine. It is through John, which is slightly dissappointing, but I was very sure I was from hearty peasant stock!
My other favorite part is all these people in the late 1800's/early 1900's who were living with their boyfriends and such.
I am related to...horse thieves and whackaloon preacher-cussing-out French Huguenots (ah, Jacob Salle, you are my favorite ancestor), among other sturdy peasanty types.
I am fine with this, but I think my dad (who is the geneology freak in the family) is secretly a little sad.
Can I just say, Queen Consort is a great title.
That would set my teeth on edge too. I've never come across it, though; I suspect it was club-specific (or at least a cultural thing).
Makes sense.
Well, except for clapping of course. I applaud speakers anywhere else, I'm not going to be less courteous tosomeone who's trying to learn.
Oh, heck yes. What they do though is you clap from the moment someone gets up until they get up to the front, and then from the moment they're done until they get back to their seat. They actually call it "clapping them up" and "clapping them down". It's...awkward, to say the least.