Dumb Britain

[callmemadam]

Toiling over a hot computer, I had Steve Wright on the radio.

Steve. "Which author wrote the controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover?"
Contestant. "Chaucer."

Comments

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

Ther a lady was in Derby schir that highte Constance, and ful rich was hir bountye, but yet hir husbonde's yerde swinketh nat, so soothly to say she did swive the gamekeepere, a rough felawe yclept Mellores, and that right mightily, for thre houres straight by the orlogge.

(I dare say old Geoff would have used some of Mellors' earthier vocabulary, too).

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that's not by Rambling Sid Rumpole?

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

What, Rambling Sid Rumpole of the Bailey? No, he did songs about judges banging away at their gavels and barristers losing their briefs-O.