Icelandic Pirate Party asked to form government Iceland's president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson has asked the nation's Pirate Party to form government. A new proclamation and edict (PDF in Icelandic) gives Pirate captain Birgitta Jonsdottir a mandate to lead negotiations with rival parties in an attempt to find a working majority in the Alþingi, Iceland's Parliament. Jóhannesson …
"A broadside then boarding and hand to hand fighting. It will be carnage."
"So what're you going to do when we catch them?"
"Er. .." Vimes hadnt given this a lot of thought. But he recalled a very bad woodcut he'd once seen in a book about pirates. "We'll swing across on to them with our cutlasses in our teeth?" he said.
"Really?" said Jenkins. "That's good. I haven't seen that done in years. Only ever seen it done once, in fact."
"Oh, yes?"
"Yes, this lad'd seen the idea in a book and he swung across into the other ship's rigging with his cutlass clenched, as you say, between his teeth."
"Yes?"
"Topless Harry, we wrote on his coffin."
"(Insert appropriate citation from Shakespeare's "Henry V", whatever it is)"
Paraphrasing, I'm sure ...
"There are homeless yet asleep but not abed in the streets of London and New York who forever will wish that on this glorious day they could have joined with we pirates on our volcanic isle. They will recount our exploits to their children and bless this day. For Birgitta ! And Iceland !"
I don't have a proper Icelandic name, but with liberties taken, feel free to call me GrapeBunch Eriksson. Yes, my father's name is almost Erik.
"The Normans came from the same Viking origins as the Icelanders."
- They never held onto that much of their culture when they settled in France, and much the same after William the conquerer in Britain, and Cyprus (or was it Malta) Pretty much whereever the Normans went, if they settled, they dumped their own culture overboard and went native within a generation.
Sell-outs...
"Sell-outs...". Well, why do I have this feeling you make it sound a bit "negative" and still it would not surprise me that much if you and so many of us have this feeling that the Muslims entering Europe should try perhaps a bit harder to integrate with "our" society. Interesting question and perhaps you have a point, but I think you are walking on thin ice without understanding it at all.
But perhaps you are still an educated Brit who doesn't think all the 50 American states were British colonies or that the majority of people who went to the Americas were Brits but people from the rest of the world and that very few stopped over in England to learn English.
What then happened to the Brits. You find Italian, Spanish and French parts in many American towns, not to mention Chinese and what not. But a British part of some town doesn't come to my mind. What happened to you and what about Australia and Canada, all British with old British culture. Hmm, is there some wistful thinking involved here. Perhaps you don't quite get it.
It's called "A Thingy".
I wonder if there is a "Wossname" somewhere.
(That character is a 'thorn', pronounced 'th', used to be common in early written English as well. Often rendered similar to 'y', hence 'ye old coffee shop'. Then it vanished from these shores.)
Ah - I wondered what the "y" character with an "accent" squiggle was in the William Bradford "Of Plimoth Plantation" document featured on BBC TV last week.
See "[...] upon y conditions following [...]" at timeline 49m37s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b084fmgq/the-mayflower-pilgrims-behind-the-myth
(iPlayer geographic limits)
...and stop all this buggering about with English and stuff (Yee Haw, avast there be harties etc).
What I really want to know is why the hell haven't we got a jolly decent party like this to vote for here in't UK?
I can even forgive them for the cod wars of the seventies, cod bless 'em!
Lang may ye rool, me lads (O hell, I'm at it now, must be infectious or summat).
Canada may be compelled to resurrect the Rhinoceros Party after this win in Iceland.
The Rhinoceros Party was a registered political party in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s. Some members of the Rhino party would call themselves Marxist-Lennonist, which meant the term in reference to Groucho Marx and John Lennon.
Their platform had many campaign promises and here are just a few ...
They pledged to eliminate small businesses, and replace them with very small businesses, having less than one employee. Repealing the law of gravity. Providing higher education by building taller schools.
Obviously a party that was not 'serious' about governing, they did at times garner lots of votes. In some elections they beat either the Liberal or Conservative Party candidate in some ridings. They also declared victory after one election, claiming all candidates were Rhinoceroses, whether they knew or acknowledged it: thick-skinned, short-sighted, mean-tempered, etc.
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