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angevin2

what plain proceeding is more plain than this?

Jul 07, 2006 15:16

I am being simultaneously earwormed by "Vindaloo" and "The Internet Is For Porn." I am beginning to fear for my sanity.

However, this post is not just to waste your time by proclaiming the madness of having those two songs in one's head simultaneously. lblanchard linked me to this in the comments to my last post and I felt it was awesome enough that it ( Read more... )

edward iii's overactive loins, medieval shiny, hath not thy rose a thorn, things that are awesome, links, historiography

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the_gwenzilliad July 7 2006, 20:32:12 UTC

Whoa. I'm having the very same earworm!

J made me watch football anthem videos a couple of weeks ago, and then of course last weekend I went to see Avenue Q with the girls in the West End....

Me and me mam and me dad and me gran
Went down to Waterloo (FOR PORN!)
Me and me mam and me dad and me gran
And a bucket of Vindaloo (FOR PORN!)

angevin2 July 7 2006, 20:35:39 UTC

*diiiiiiiiiiiies*

That is so, so wrong, and yet so very amusing. ;)

erstwhiletexan July 7 2006, 20:34:19 UTC

For some reason I keep thinking I've seen pictures of that manuscript before, but I can't think where or why. Anyway, it has muchel awesomness and I squee heartily over it. Even if it does not have vine-nethers John o' Gaunt. ;)

angevin2 July 8 2006, 01:12:01 UTC

Or Henries IV and V wearing notable codpieces.

...I am sitting at home on a Friday night discussing the crotches of Lancastrian kings, or rather, engraved representations thereof. I think I may be the saddest human being who ever lived.

angevin2 July 8 2006, 01:12:58 UTC

Damn, the links don't work! Well, go to the Hall title page and take a look at Henries IV and V -- you'll see what I mean.

carandol July 7 2006, 20:39:18 UTC

Well, it's not my period, but it's very pretty. I want one for the wall!

angevin2 July 8 2006, 01:13:45 UTC

Me too! It'd be like the giant English royal family tree in the TA office, only, like, nine hundred thousand times more awesome.

so_lily_briscoe July 7 2006, 22:16:10 UTC

WOW.

Color-coded! Holy crap.

Can't believe that bugger is intact. So shiny! And readable (though not from my computer), where the vine-crotches were not.

And you, you sneaky thing, are making me start veering away from performancy things and into histories. Shiny genealogical toys are helping you a great deal in this.

angevin2 July 8 2006, 01:15:06 UTC

YES! I have a knack for sucking everybody into my interests. ;) Although, you could always do both things! My dissertation is going to eventually connect history and performance, or at least I hope it will. Once I get past blithering about Samuel Daniel, anyway...

lblanchard July 8 2006, 02:20:57 UTC

It's shiny because my friends and I scraped together our pennies and raised $5,000 to have it conserved. Before that it was grubby but still pretty cool. I don't have a readable copy in living color, although it is to be hoped the FLP will get one online eventually. I have a photocopy of the microfilm and that's readable, assuming that one can read late medieval Latin in batarde, which I can't except for great big words.

Another very cool E4 genealogy is at the BL, Harleian 7353, te "typological history of E4. Alas, when I plunked down money to go over to see it, after e-mailing to confirm its availability, I was told it was out for conservation. Le sigh...

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angevin2 July 8 2006, 01:17:35 UTC

There is! But it's actually about football. Inasmuch as it's about anything in particular.