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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 6 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Re: UK - touch not the Queen #24905 03/29/01 03:52 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 B Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran B Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 touching the queen WOW, Nicholas W has given a good reply. The name is indeed high treason, and simply raising one's hand in a menacing fashion was sufficient to constitute this offence, as was the intolerable assault of putting horns on the monarch, as two of Henry VIII's wives were accused of and executed for. [There's an elegant construction for you!] The punishment for one of noble status was beheading; for a commoner, hanging, drawing and quartering (a really horrid affair, depicted with a good deal of editing in the conclusion of Braveheart) and this was still on the books at the end of the 18th century --Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities has Jerry Cruncher, the resurrection man, bemoaning the prospect of Charles Darnay's being "spiled". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: UK - touch not the Queen #24906 03/29/01 04:06 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City as was the intolerable assault of putting horns on the monarch Would this be to make a cuckold of the king as in Merry Wives (is it, or another?). Horns were the sign of a cuckold. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 6 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,333 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 773 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 32 A C Bowden 17 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,542 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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