Young Sam gives a demonstration of how England managed to lose both a
whole Empire and Eurovision:
>Hughes is Welsh, you sheep-shagging paddy crim. Your great great
grandaddy,apart from being the worst sort of thief (he got caught), told
you a bunchof >porkies.BTW, the M16 doesn't exist anymore (M25 now) and
never went anywhere near Paisley
- it's Norman actually. The First Hughs and FitzHughs in Wales were
Frenchies. 'Hughes' came about because Latin writing medieval monks had
trouble with Welsh vowels (not the last by a long shot) when writing the
very common name 'Hywel'. Ditto the Irish Hughes'. They were originally
O hAodha. The nice thing is that Dundalk and Lough is Tain country: I
can go all ancestral and mystic-like and quote bits of Chu Chullain
whenever I feellike it. One of the Ironies is that my father-in-law is
an amateur historian whose field is English Baptists and especially
*ahem* Oliver Cromwell, who also has some slight association with
Dundalk. Guess what we don't talk about over dinner?
- Unfair. No charges were ever laid.
- Technically, 'sheep-shagging great great grandson of a paddy crim'
- Bee jazus, yerr feckin' gobshite ijit: are ye suggesting that we're
not bogtrotters? That we did our family history all arseways? Feck off!
Do I look stoopid to you a what?
- Thank you. Noted. I will update my Ian Fleming with the same crayon
Ash uses to post.
5 a) Of course not, they never deviated much from pinstripe.
5 b) That's what they're telling YOU.
Ohhh, Petey's gone all quiet. Is that a concession of defeat?
Jimbo