Sunday, April 14, 2013

Unseasonable Rites: If They Celebrated Thanksgiving

his is what they would give thanks for:

Richard III - Free parking.

Marie Antoinette - That the peasants did not expect to get ice cream with their cake.

Henry V - My fine, strong, healthy son.

Lucretia Borgia - The chemistry set my Papa gave me.

Lincoln - Great seats at the theater.

John Wilkes Booth - Some whose name was Mudd.

James II - That kings can't be fired.

Elizabeth I - Ladies who borrow your dresses before you have a chance to try them on.

William Rufus - A bit of time off to go hunting in the New Forest.

Robert the Bruce - My Spidey sense.

Aethelflaed - Ethelraed, my favorite Mercian.

Thomas à Becket - Friends in high places.

Anne Boleyn - I enjoy being a girl.

Joan of Arc - Well, I don't.

Edward II - Good friends.

Richard the Lionhearted - My good and trustworthy brother who looks after things at home while I am away at the Crusades.

Katherine Parr - Widowhood.

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4 October 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15 and a whole bunch of people are cheated out of birthday parties.