Friday, February 08, 2008

Today In History: Royal pain.

On this date in 1587, Mary I was beheaded for Scottish Queenery in the First Degree and Aggravated Catholicism.

(It never paid to get cross-threaded with Liz the First, who in her zeal for power and her hard-nosed grasp of realpolitik, makes the current junior Senator from New York look like Mother Theresa.)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And at the moment in the UK they should behead the current Archbishop of Canterbury for his latest coments about us having to accept some of Saharia law the Bloody mans a Tratior.

Carl H said...

Oh for the good old days, where getting your head cut off didn't necessarily mean you insulted Islam.

theirritablearchitect said...

"(It never paid to get cross-threaded with Liz the First, who in her zeal for power and her hard-nosed grasp of realpolitik, makes the current junior Senator from New York look like Mother Theresa.)"

Well, I'm thinking that the junior senator from New York just hasn't been given enough time, or opportunity.

Just wait.

perlhaqr said...

Yeah, just imagine how well the country will fare under Queen Hillary I.

*shuddergag*