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Post by Ally on Nov 16, 2005 21:22:35 GMT
Yeah, they probably passed the time stuffing foxes inside their shirts and all the other fun things they did... Don't quote out of Horrible Histories books and try acting like you know things... ¬_¬ I didn't learn that from Horrible Histories, I learned it from E Nesbit, and I meant it ironically. And I did History A Level, so I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to history.
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Post by stokerino on Nov 17, 2005 0:23:13 GMT
Was your A-level history Nazis plus Tudors, Tudors, Tudors, and more Tudors too...?
Man, they didn't plan that one well. >_>
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Post by Ally on Nov 17, 2005 15:58:13 GMT
Yeah. Which is a shame, 'cos I'd have liked to have done Ancient Greece (and Ancient Rome and the Celts. The ancients were great)
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Post by Emily on Nov 17, 2005 19:12:04 GMT
what about the Tudor Nazis, those lovable rogues overlooked by historians everywhere...
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Post by stokerino on Nov 17, 2005 19:14:45 GMT
They already have Jesuits. They don't need anyone else. >_>
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Post by Ally on Nov 17, 2005 20:06:31 GMT
*mental image of some horrible, horrible melding of Henry VIII and Hitler...*
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Post by Mindy on Nov 18, 2005 22:19:30 GMT
Tudor Nazis? Fill me in, Em
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Post by Emily on Nov 18, 2005 22:57:05 GMT
well...they lived on the moon, because they had way futuristic technology AND a time machine (!!!) and from their moon base they plotted against the spanish (and anyone else they didn't like the look of) whilst secretly engineering events down on earth using their spies cunningly diguised as foxes. Hence the myth about how foxes are cunning, because back in the 15th century... THEY WERE...
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Post by Ally on Nov 18, 2005 23:59:19 GMT
That's so cool! How come we never learned about this in history? Probably because a member of the royal family was involved, so they censored everything... (yup, a lot of our aristocracy and a few of the royal family were almost certainly conspiring with the Nazis...they're just not allowed to teach us that in schools)
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Post by Mindy on Nov 19, 2005 1:15:29 GMT
Well, don't forget the royal family are descended from Germans, with the expection of Philip
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Post by stokerino on Nov 19, 2005 14:49:39 GMT
Yes, but the Tudors were Welsh...
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Post by Mindy on Nov 19, 2005 19:12:13 GMT
Well Nazis didn't exist in Tudor times, in fact Germany was hardly Germany then
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Post by stokerino on Nov 19, 2005 19:18:28 GMT
But Tudor Nazis...oh, nevermind.
Germany was still the First Reich at that stage. Long way to go yet. >_>
And on the subject of the Royal Family being German - Elizabeth II is only half German (her mother being English).
I guess that means Charles is 1/2 Greek, 1/4 English and 1/4 German, and William and Harry are therefore both 5/8 English (because of Diana), making William to be the first predominantly-British monarch since Queen Anne...
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Post by Mindy on Nov 20, 2005 0:41:43 GMT
But his surname would be a German one if it hadn't been changed during WWI
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Post by Lu on Nov 21, 2005 10:29:24 GMT
Cunning move really.
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Post by Ally on Nov 21, 2005 11:04:00 GMT
We could always go along the Tony-Robinson lines of 'technically none of them (Tudors or Windsors) have a claim to the throne at all'...but then again, possession is 90% ownership.
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Post by Lu on Nov 21, 2005 20:06:11 GMT
well we could try and overthrow them, but im pretty sure treason is still a crime and i wouldnt want to risk it
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Post by Mindy on Nov 21, 2005 22:24:17 GMT
They have no real power anymore, we should get rid of them by act of parliament, just keeping them on as a tourist attraction - put 'em all in a museum!
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Post by Ally on Nov 21, 2005 23:31:55 GMT
I *like* that plan...
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Post by stokerino on Nov 22, 2005 2:55:30 GMT
Since you point out that they have no power, aren't they essentially a tourist attraction anyway?
Besides, anything that prevents Tony Blair from assuming the position of Head of State...
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