February 2011
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1907 Where had the kidney bean? To see the scarlet runner.
1903 When a young...
– Examples of Victorian/Edwardian humour tweeted by author and blogger Lee Jackson of The Cat’s Meat Shop.
Don’t let those stern visages in photographs fool you into thinking Victorians were without humour.
(via my-ear-trumpet)
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I'll make a man of you
I’ll make a man of you
(From the First World War)
The Army and the Navy need attention, The outlook isn’t healthy you’ll admit, But I’ve got a perfect dream of a new recruiting scheme, Which I think is absolutely it. If only other girls would do as I do I believe that we could manage it alone, For I turn all suitors from me but the sailor and the Tommy, I’ve an army...
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Work In Progress
“No, William, it’s not suicide. If you attack the north as I command you, then you have a chance of survival, however slim it may be. Suicide would be standing here questioning my orders. Do you understand?”
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