Tag: english

• No More Trimming Irish Guard’s Bearskin Hats–Switch To Faux Fur

  Soldier magazine reports that the English Army, bowing to increasing pressure from Animal Rights Activists and the exhorbitantly expensive costs of trimming and maintenance,  has announced that bearskin helmets worn by the Irish guards while on duty at Buckingham Palace will be phased out in favor the more politically correct and less costly synthetic “faux”…

  JunkChuck

  April 1, 2014

  Uncategorized

  #antifur, #aprilfools, #irishguard, army, baldness, barber, bear, bearskin, british, buckingham, cure, english, guard, irish, naked, nude, palace, protest, skin

• War Poems For National Poetry Month: Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est

  Panama…then Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq again, Afganistan–right or wrong, for causes both just and cynical, we’ve been in an exhausting, nearly constant state of war, however distant and vaguely defined, since I graduated from High School in the 1980’s–and that was just a few deep breaths after the war in Viet Nam/ Cambodia/ Laos that…

  JunkChuck

  April 1, 2014

  Poetry

  1, america, dead, decorum, dulce, england, english, est, et, france, gas, germany, infantry, mustard, one, owen, patriotism, poems, poetry, war, wilfred, world

• Cannibalism at Jamestown

  Researchers have found conclusive evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the earliest known site of European hubris in North America and, not coincidentally, the place where I was given my first and only tricorne hat. I’d been under the assumption that the flesh-eating Briton thing was understood. Those first colonists pretty much sucked at…um…colonizing.  Their attempts…

  JunkChuck

  January 17, 2014

  Funny and/or Strange, Uncategorized

  bad, cannibalism, colonists, colony, dead, english, food, indians, jamestown, zombies