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2014-05-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

British earl selling mountain to pay tax bill

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Posted by Fred 2014-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Take a page out of the Al Sharpton playbook - blow it off and scream racism at the top of your lungs!

Posted by Raj 2014-05-07 01:13|| 2014-05-07 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you Lord Lonsdale. Your remittance will be put to excellent use purchasing council housing for Mooslim immigrants.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-07 05:04|| 2014-05-07 05:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Dear Hugh Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale:

I am very interested in purchasing the said property Blencathra on condition that at least 26 serfs and knaves be procurred to help work the land. Given the present unemployment picture in the UK, I do not believe this would be a show stopper. Please contact me at your Earliest convenience. (Pun intended)

Posted by Omusons Lover of the Hemps8496 2014-05-07 09:55|| 2014-05-07 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Anybody now what you call a lady earl? I've got "baroness" and "countess," can't recall ever hearing about an "earless."

Posted by Fred 2014-05-07 13:55|| 2014-05-07 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 The female equivalent of an earl is the countess as modern Britain never developed a feminine form of the earl. An earl is a nobility member who is ranked below the marquees and above a viscount.

Posted by Fleremble Flusort1165 2014-05-07 13:58|| 2014-05-07 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 She doesn't have any ears?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-05-07 16:15|| 2014-05-07 16:15|| Front Page Top

#7 At the hunt, as we often recount,
I retrieved the dismounted Count's mount.
"Oh, I say, you're a queen!"
"Charmed, I'm sure, I'm Earline!"
And that's how I got down with the Count.

Selling, selling, over the bounding demesne...

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-05-07 16:56|| 2014-05-07 16:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh my. That was unexpected, Zenobia Floger6220. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2014-05-07 22:38|| 2014-05-07 22:38|| Front Page Top

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