Reply to: Here's a question for you all

[milanbenes]

I think you have all missed the subtle point to the question.

Milan.

[DaveB]

Owd Rodger..... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Half a pint of that & the end of my nose went numb...

I could still just about see though.

Right up there with Dogbolter. Tastes like drinking black treacle and leave you feeling like you are walking in the stuff

[Cyberman]

Tell me about it! I worked at the CAD Centre in Madingley back in the mid '80s, and shared a house with three other guys also there, in Madingley Road.

Before Christmas, one of the local pubs had a custom of selling a super strong drink called Christmas Ale - Pitch black and about 20% ABV. The pub owner tried to ration it, due to its weird effects. But one of the guys managed to drink four or five pints and as a result pooped the bed! His GF sharing it was not impressed

That reminds me of a similar experience I had with a beer called Old Roger after a visit to the Royal Standard of England near Penn.

[OwlHoot]

Still more of a Rupert Brooke man.

Especially "Grantchester" which anybody who's lived around Cambridge ought to read in its entirety.

"And things are done you'd not believe
At Madingley on Christmas Eve."

Tell me about it! I worked at the CAD Centre in Madingley back in the mid '80s, and shared a house with three other guys also there, in Madingley Road.

Before Christmas, one of the local pubs had a custom of selling a super strong drink called Christmas Ale - Pitch black and about 20% ABV. The pub owner tried to ration it, due to its weird effects. But one of the guys managed to drink four or five pints and as a result pooped the bed! His GF sharing it was not impressed

[thunderlizard]

sanctificetur

passive subjunctive, innit?

Now write it out a hundred times. Hail Caesar. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.

[Churchill]

Ah! How perfectly marvellous to know no Latin! Those of us brought up, ahem, decades ago in a Catholic grammar did Latin every bleeding day for about 6 years and then got landed with the crap every Sunday. I am sure I have never forgotten one bleeding adverb of it it, from Caesar and his fossas to Pompei and his fliping bellum geros.

Qui es in caelis
sanctificator nomen tuum
et veniat regnum tuum
shutup! shutup! shutup!

That Xog my old friend is the price one has to pay for being born guilty!

[NickFitz]

Still more of a Rupert Brooke man.

Especially "Grantchester" which anybody who's lived around Cambridge ought to read in its entirety.

"And things are done you'd not believe
At Madingley on Christmas Eve."

It's now the home of Jeffrey Archer, so once again life imitates art

[xoggoth]

Ah! How perfectly marvellous to know no Latin! Those of us brought up, ahem, decades ago in a Catholic grammar did Latin every bleeding day for about 6 years and then got landed with the crap every Sunday. I am sure I have never forgotten one bleeding adverb of it it, from Caesar and his fossas to Pompei and his fecking bellum geros.

Qui es in caelis
sanctificator nomen tuum
et veniat regnum tuum
shutup! shutup! shutup!

[dang65]

"And things are done you'd not believe
At Madingley on Christmas Eve."

Sounds more like Spike Milligan.

[thunderlizard]

Still more of a Rupert Brooke man.

Especially "Grantchester" which anybody who's lived around Cambridge ought to read in its entirety.

"And things are done you'd not believe
At Madingley on Christmas Eve."

[Board Game Geek]

And Jessie Pope

Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played,
The red crashing game of a fight?
Who’ll grip and tackle the job unafraid?
And who thinks he’d rather sit tight?

Jessie was at the other end of the spectrum with regards to her WWI poetry, and I recall that Wilfred Owen and her had a difference of opinion about the "glory of war"

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Classic poem and about the only bit of Latin I remember after leaving school.

Siegfried Sassoon is also highly recommended if you enjoy WWI war poetry.

And Jessie Pope

[Board Game Geek]

Classic poem and about the only bit of Latin I remember after leaving school.

Siegfried Sassoon is also highly recommended if you enjoy WWI war poetry.

[Churchill]

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Yup, he was foogling!

[Advocate]

The first two lines and the last two are taken from a poem by the Roman poet Horace.

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori:
mors et fugacem persequitur virum
nec parcit inbellis iuventae
poplitibus timidove tergo."

"How sweet and fitting it is to die for your native land:
Death pursues the man who flees,
spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs
Of battle-shy youths."

It was a popular quotation in the early days of the war and carried significant meaning for the soldiers fighting it.

Owens poem was written at the end of the war around 1917-1918 and published in 1920 and conveys the meaining that no-one who has actually fought in a war would want to glorify it.

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