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Post by yanmacca on Jun 19, 2017 13:35:52 GMT
If I was a single man I would chance my name to Ian Ascot-Richardson because I still get people asking me were about in Ireland I am from and other things like that's an Irish name. If you think that Ascot-Richardson is a mouthful then my next choice would be Ian Tavaré-Tremayne
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Post by BrevetorCoffin on Jun 19, 2017 15:42:56 GMT
If I was a single man I would chance my name to Ian Ascot-Richardson because I still get people asking me were about in Ireland I am from and other things like that's an Irish name. If you think that Ascot-Richardson is a mouthful then my next choice would be Ian Tavaré-Tremayne Shouldn't the latter name be prefaced by Mon Sewer?
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Post by Beth on Jun 19, 2017 18:13:28 GMT
If I was a single man I would chance my name to Ian Ascot-Richardson because I still get people asking me were about in Ireland I am from and other things like that's an Irish name. If you think that Ascot-Richardson is a mouthful then my next choice would be Ian Tavaré-Tremayne No, no, no Ian you know in order to have a really British sounding name, it must sound like it came in with the Normans if not earlier. I would suggest Ian St. Mour-Tollemache. Of course if someone asks you if you are part of a certain branch of that family you must maintain the proper disdain to say, "No we're the OTHER St. Mour-Tollemaches.
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 19, 2017 18:45:30 GMT
I can't believe I choose French, but this goes back to my halcyon days when we were teenagers and used to make up stage names to take our minds off playing a show, we used to get pretty nervous but we never tried to show it, so playing this little name game broke the tension.
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 19, 2017 18:49:01 GMT
Beth, old English eh, how about "Ian of underbelly, housecarl to the King of Mercia"
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Post by BrevetorCoffin on Jun 19, 2017 22:30:32 GMT
To quote Bugs Bunny "arise Sir Loin of Beef!"
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Post by quincannon on Jun 20, 2017 1:20:10 GMT
That was not Bugs Bunny. That was the Queen's Cavalier playing his alternate character Sir Wilfred of Dipshitanhoe, just before Sir Loin stuck him in his varlet, pinning him to the toilet seat he uses for the saddle on his pretend horsy --- forsooth
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Post by Beth on Jun 20, 2017 1:30:14 GMT
I have found my people.
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dave
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Post by dave on Jun 20, 2017 2:59:16 GMT
David The Comancheros, nice touch! Regards Dave
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 20, 2017 13:48:42 GMT
Do you guys know how sir loin got its title?
'Arise, Sir Loin' Historians are divided over whether the story is actually true. The word Sirloin is said by some to have come from the French word 'surloynge' - which is made up of 'sur', meaning 'over' or 'above', and 'loynge' meaning 'loin'. A number of legends claim its name came from it being 'knighted' by a monarch, although it is variously ascribed to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James I. According to the Lancashire tradition, James I drew his short sword and told the Hoghton Tower pages to bring the beef to him. They went down on their knees and the king said "Arise, Sir Loin." The king's visit is also said to have damaged the finances of the de Hoghton family so badly that the head of the family, Richard, spent a year in the Fleet Prison to pay off his debts.
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Post by BrevetorCoffin on Jun 20, 2017 13:53:37 GMT
Do you guys know how sir loin got its title? 'Arise, Sir Loin' Historians are divided over whether the story is actually true. The word Sirloin is said by some to have come from the French word 'surloynge' - which is made up of 'sur', meaning 'over' or 'above', and 'loynge' meaning 'loin'. A number of legends claim its name came from it being 'knighted' by a monarch, although it is variously ascribed to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and James I. According to the Lancashire tradition, James I drew his short sword and told the Hoghton Tower pages to bring the beef to him. They went down on their knees and the king said "Arise, Sir Loin." The king's visit is also said to have damaged the finances of the de Hoghton family so badly that the head of the family, Richard, spent a year in the Fleet Prison to pay off his debts.And here I thought it was Bugs Bunny's line from a cartoon mocking on Robin Hood (don't you worry, never fear, Robin Hood will soon be here - to be recited in a Brooklyn accent). Back on topic - Benteen was prudent, not unnecessarily slow. Best, David
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 20, 2017 13:56:33 GMT
Did you guys ever wondered why our Royals changed their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor?
Since January 1915, Zeppelin airships had dropped bombs on Britain, but after heavy losses as a result of British anti-aircraft accuracy, they employed a new tactic. The dawn of 1917 saw the arrival over Britain for the first time of enemy fixed-wing aircraft.
A fleet of 23 biplanes made the first-ever daylight raid on London on June 13, inflicting 162 deaths and 432 injuries. Among the dead were 16 children in a Poplar primary school.
Not one enemy plane was shot down, and the success of the raid was put down to its surprise element. Losses were heavy, simply because of people’s ignorance. As Royal Flying Corps pilot Charles Chabot observed: ‘Everybody crowded out into the street to watch. They didn’t take cover or dodge.’ The nation was stunned. And then it emerged that these new planes, these carriers of death, went by the name of Gotha G IV — very similar to George V’s surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Inevitably, the King was worried.
Christopher Hibbert says: ‘The King had always been anxious that his people should know the energetic part he was playing in the conduct of the war. [Now with this news] he started and grew pale.’ Whatever thoughts flew through the King’s mind on how to distance himself and his family from this horror, he had little time to dwell on them. Three weeks later, another Gotha raid on London claimed 57 lives and injured 193 more.
The name Gotha had become the most hated in the land. It was time for the Royal family to act — fast. Courtiers were told to find a new name for the ruling royal house, together with a strategy to finally airbrush from people’s minds the notion that the King was German (even if, in fact, he still was). But what name to choose?
The King’s uncle Arthur suggested harking back to previous dynasties — Tudor or Stuart. This was quickly vetoed and other suggestions, also summarily rejected, included ‘York’, ‘Lancaster’, ‘Plantagenet’, ‘England’, ‘FitzRoy’, and even ‘d’Este’. It was George V’s private secretary, Lord Stamfordham, who came up with ‘Windsor’.
Now that is your history lesson over for today.
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 20, 2017 13:57:23 GMT
Sorry for taking the thread off line, David its over to you.
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Post by BrevetorCoffin on Jun 20, 2017 16:58:26 GMT
NP Ian. On a lesser note there is a town in New Hampshire called Berlin. Prior to WW1 it was pronounced as we all know it, BurLIN (accent on 2nd syllable. Once the US got involved the pronunciation was change, Burlin with equal emphasis on both syllables.
Benteen still did not dawdle and I don't believe Reno was drunk during the battle but may have tippled a little.
Best,
David
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Post by yanmacca on Jun 20, 2017 18:51:58 GMT
I think if you are a commander operating in a battle zone, then speeding up to full throttle and riding blind could cause you to fall into one hell of a trap, as Benteen was riding blind, over terrain he had never seen before and following vague orders with no sign of his commanders or their troops.
If Reno was drunk from sipping liqueur from a hip flask, then he is a light weight in the drinking stakes. I would have thought that the prospect of facing death would not be effected or subdued by a couple of swigs of whisky.
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