Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <9n829bFqo8U1@mid.individual.net>,
Zomoniac <the_proper_one@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 12/01/2012 12:05, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>> In article<9n8012F8r3U1@mid.individual.net>,
>> Zomoniac<the_proper_one@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/01/2012 11:50, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On a somewhat unrelated note, The Madness of King George was so named for
>>>> its American release (without the roman numeral) because marketers were
>>>> concerned that us yanks wouldn't understand that Kings George I and II did
>>>> not also go mad and therefore did not merit motion pictures of their own.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The Guy Fawkes plot on bonfire night was to kill King James I and/or V.
>>
>> I thought he was the sixth James of Scotland? Not that anybody who isn't a
>> Scot would care.
>
>Right you are. I was going on memory. I haven't studied any of that
>Tudor/Stuart era since I was 8. Your general knowledge is scary at times.

James I was actually the subject of some debate in one of my secondary
history classes. A particularly bigoted classmate of mine was attempting
to argue entitlement for English-speaking peoples (read: white people
like him) based on James' distribution of the most widely-read bible in
the world. The teacher, who was quite hip and widely respected, pointed
out the irony of James' history with dozens and dozens of favoured male
courtiers. Basically, the world's most famous sodomite is the man most
responsible for the spread of the new testament in the west.

-KKC, dragging UGVM off topic since 2003.
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