tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post5800340483465383432..comments2024-03-11T08:28:30.817+00:00Comments on No Good Boyo: Tribuni plebis consulari potestateNo Good Boyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-57029274699672687292010-12-09T10:28:59.349+00:002010-12-09T10:28:59.349+00:00Ah, the Lay of Ludlow. A total rout, but nonethele...Ah, the Lay of Ludlow. A total rout, but nonetheless the high point of Dall's career.<br /><br />The drowning went unnoticed at home, as Mrs Dall was deaf and "he'd never liked moving that much anyway". RIPNo Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-70858497966124751252010-12-09T10:24:43.045+00:002010-12-09T10:24:43.045+00:00I recall that from the memoirs of the delightful L...I recall that from the memoirs of the delightful Lt-Col N.M.E. Adthy-Gates that Dall's 1967 assault on Ludlow was acompanied by a monocled Indian-army type bearing a Maxim Gun in each hand and bellowing for gin. <br /><br />The defeat of the FWA by the local poursuivants was followed by the Welch prisoners - Dall included - being treated with the traditional honours of marcher warfare, i.e. being drowned in buckets by Gypsies after having their valuables removed "for safe keeping". <br /><br />My uncle Cribbo still has a bent thruppeny-bit, three paper clips and a lump of coal that he is still keeping in case relatives of a gentleman apparently named "Lance-Corporal Dai Arghsploosh-Flubbleflubbleflubble" turn up to collect them.<br />Happy days...Gyppo Byardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823690986571629011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-119329066006787702010-12-09T09:57:09.472+00:002010-12-09T09:57:09.472+00:00Not in the Free Wales Army he wouldn't. We hav...Not in the Free Wales Army he wouldn't. We have always been proud of Dai Dall, the blind commander of the Plynlimon Military District. He wore clown's shoes so that he could feel the cliff tops. Noted as a fair commander, Dall's tactics always ensured that as many of his own men perished as the enemy's.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-44106449197019926482010-12-08T17:49:48.151+00:002010-12-08T17:49:48.151+00:00Bromhead was deaf and would fail an army medical t...Bromhead was deaf and would fail an army medical today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-57509272988986183112010-12-06T14:53:28.095+00:002010-12-06T14:53:28.095+00:00Gyppo, these are splendid contributions. You can p...Gyppo, these are splendid contributions. You can pitch your vardo in my ha-ha anytime.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-11103464866069159592010-12-06T13:29:46.774+00:002010-12-06T13:29:46.774+00:00My ideas for the series, incidentally, would invol...My ideas for the series, incidentally, would involve Paul McCartney visiting China, refusing to kow-tow and leaving empty-handed, comedian Stuart Lee being defeated at Gettysburg, and Evan Davis visiting Moscow to recreate the oppressive rule of Tsar Evan the Terrible...Gyppo Byardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823690986571629011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-40897704626280521562010-12-06T12:24:56.677+00:002010-12-06T12:24:56.677+00:00Drawn hither by the taking of my name in vain (or ...Drawn hither by the taking of my name in vain (or at least intravenously), I feel it my bounden duty as a keen popper of myth bubbles that the chaps at Rorke's Drift belonged to the 24th Regiment - subsequently designated the South Wales Borderers - but which at the time was not notably Welch. In fact, they were an eclectic bunch but with more Brummies than Welshmen. The singins bit is pure filmscript. As is the notion of two noble officers organising the defence - both officers were noted twits and the NCOs actually saved the day.<br /><br />See:<br />http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2010/06/14/midland-heroes-of-rorke-s-drift-uncovered-97319-26643997/Gyppo Byardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823690986571629011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-31845448040709537122010-12-05T16:02:46.985+00:002010-12-05T16:02:46.985+00:00Zulus and gayness. After a battle they held that t...Zulus and gayness. After a battle they held that the souls of the enemy were inside them and could only be freed by buggery. (Anthropology 101).<br />South Wales Borderers? Mostly Welsh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-44112347258596822692010-12-05T13:52:39.016+00:002010-12-05T13:52:39.016+00:00The Weakest Chink? Is that really one of mine? I&#...The Weakest Chink? Is that really one of mine? I'm a worse person than I thought. Excellent?<br /><br /><i>"making contestants compete for food and water"</i>, eh? Now that the Chinese government has all-but abandoned Communism it would be tasteless of us to give it a go.<br /><br />There is mileage, I hope, in "Burma Shave" - we persuade Hoxton hipsters that sandpaper depilation of the nethers is the latest thing, endorsed by millennia of made-up Buddhist wisdom.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-50385720467228423572010-12-05T13:24:41.333+00:002010-12-05T13:24:41.333+00:00Any word on your Asian-themed athletic reality sho...Any word on your Asian-themed athletic reality show, The Weakest Chink? Your idea about making contestants compete for food and water fits with the zeigeist of our new government and may stave off further diversions of our license fees to the Young Conservatives Yachting Society.Raymond Dickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11859358457104689699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-35690723521155837772010-12-05T10:58:51.318+00:002010-12-05T10:58:51.318+00:00These are inspired ideas, folks. I think the Zulus...These are inspired ideas, folks. I think the Zulus were all gay, as they dressed like the Red Indian out of The Village People. There's a lot of homophobia down there, which is usually a sign.<br /><br />Gyppo Byard studied tarring at Newbury Uni, but knows his military history - used to sell surplus tank tracks to garden centres or something. He says it's a myth that there were Welsh soldiers at Rorke's Drift, which surprises me given that we make a habit if losing to the South Africans.<br /><br />I select my photos by the Burroughsian technique of opening the family album and wielding a random hat pin.<br /><br />Hannah Gordon handled that Welsh bloke in My Wife Next Door, she could totally charm the fuzzy-wuzzies. They likens blonde in those parts, and respect age.No Good Boyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859104068516964533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-29175856682543890532010-12-05T09:45:15.190+00:002010-12-05T09:45:15.190+00:00And why, pray, have you posted a photo of McChe in...And why, pray, have you posted a photo of McChe in his Enlightenment Man costume? I look forward to seeing Anne Widdecombe following up her triumph in Strictly with a spirited portrayal of Boudicca taking on the hordes of Lithuanian and Chinese fruit-pickers in the Norfolk flatlands.Daphne Wayne-Boughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10581048408996935564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-21010784792515298692010-12-05T09:44:53.042+00:002010-12-05T09:44:53.042+00:00Dyer was the O/C at Amritsar but the actual shooti...Dyer was the O/C at Amritsar but the actual shooting was done by gurkhas. My idea? "Oliviers Army" a crack squad of thesps from the RSC are parachuted behind enemy lines (cont p.9)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-83515975686772196702010-12-05T08:14:58.706+00:002010-12-05T08:14:58.706+00:00This Danny Dyer fellow is the kind of East End gut...This Danny Dyer fellow is the kind of East End guttersnipe who would refer to the Sikhs as "nappyheads", which might provoke riots in Southall. The tongue can be deadlier than the bayonet, Boyo. And I'd like to know who the gayers were in Zulu. You shouldn't be making throwaway remarks like that about a film with singing Welshmen.Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34326573.post-64791045529715730072010-12-05T00:41:48.238+00:002010-12-05T00:41:48.238+00:00I can see no wrong in this and look forward to see...I can see no wrong in this and look forward to seeing Hannah Gordon's spirited re-enactment of Stanley Baker's Last Stand.Kevin Musgrovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14472110857057175327noreply@blogger.com