At last! Deep in the recesses of the British Museum, proof has emerged of what has long been suspected: Queen Victoria was cloned. A photograph was found twixt the pages of an early copy of a book once on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Clearly the photograph had been used as a book mark. On the back, in Queen Victoria’s own hand, Spare the rodham and spoil the country.
It’s now known that Victoria’s clone is to be regarded as the real Victoria. Historians are considering changing the name of the Victorian Era to something after the clone; something more modern; perhaps something to do with modern communications, such as email. Perhaps the Meme Era. In fact, in honour of herself, the clone is going to recommend the Me Me Me Me Me Era.
Listen the story being read HERE!
Did you make the photo Bruce, or fortuitously find it in the great Interwebby?
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I made it. The one on the left is from a photo of her shaking hands with Putin.
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I have the same question as contented!
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I made it. The one on the left is from a photo of her shaking hands with Putin.
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And just look at the faces….you can tell that it must have been on the occasion when this photo was first unveiled that Victoria made her famous remark: “We are not amused…”
[This is ingenious, Bruce. I love it…it will probably become an internet meme. Good thing we no longer have The Index, because you would certainly be listed on it, by the powers that be.]
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Thanks! The disappearance of the Index is to be deplored. There’s little enough thrills left in life!
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Back in the 1960’s, when we were reading Sartre and Camus in a French Lit seminar, the prof. (a wonderful old nun with a Ph.D) told us she had written to the Vatican for permission because those existentialists were on the index.
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It’s extraordinary to think back! It was always a handy reading list! These days, everyone does their own censoring: you not like, you press delete!
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Twin Freaks! Double trouble when a doppelgänger does not know it is a facsimile of the original.
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Not so much as ghostly counterpart as a ghastly counterpart!
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And at their age, probably very gassy!
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And quite unclassy.
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Clever,, Bruce! The Clintonian Era has not been nearly as prosperous. Yes a ghastly counterpart. We call her Hitlery.
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Well, thanks… I dare say many will not quite like the posting…
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We are very amused
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LOL! And so we should be!
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Oh Bruce I gave a little bark of amusement at the picture. Very clever. And HRC has some of the demeanor, though heaven knows she needs armor as well. As for the Index, a few years ago I gave my brother a book that really ticked him off and he told me it was on the index, to which my response was the ‘the RCs still ban books?’ and to start laughing. I have a feeling it’s not called the index, but the list is still out there. The book was a life of St. Paul, I think by Angus Wilson. Goodness, those reprobate C of E folks…
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I would imagine the life of St Paul could get quite seedy in places. With a name like Angus I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was Presbyterian.
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Isn’t it rich? Isn’t it queer?
Losing her timing this late in her career….
But where are the clones? There ought to be clones….
Well, maybe next year…..
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Send in the clones. That would be hard to trump.
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Give the man a cigar
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Thank you. But no one seems to have a match.
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Matchless….that’s you!
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Strike a light! That’s sweet!
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Send her Victorias…
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Happy and glorias
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touchee
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How very un-Victorian of you, sir!
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I’m deep down a neo-Edwardian.
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