Sending letters to Toyland and father christmas

[briant_gumble]

How many letters at your office got sent off this year by young kids?

[Straight4ward]

How many letters at your office got sent off this year by young kids?

I'm don't know if our lino can write?

[noggin1969]

We get a few in our office for Robin Hood c/o Sherwood Forest

[TrueBlueTerrier]

We get a few in our office for Robin Hood c/o Sherwood Forest

Send them up here - I believe his forwarding address is Kirklees Priory, Clifton, Brighouse HD6 4HD

[TeeferTiger]

Robin Hood was from Wakefield!

[DGP1]

Robin Hood was from Wakefield!

I thought he was from Ireland............at least that was the accent I picked up from that last film with Russell Crowe

[steven100]

I sent a card for Willian Wallace, I only just discoved he died in 1305 (this may not be true taken from wiki.....) .

[fishtank]

I sent a card for Willian Wallace, I only just discoved he died in 1305 (this may not be true taken from wiki.....) .

Wallace was murdered by the Edward's direct orders on the 23rd August 1305 after a show trial in which he was not allowed to even speak never mind defend himself.
He was hung,burnt and quartered...old school death penalty.

And that thereafter, for the measureless turnitude of the deeds towards God and Holy Church in burning down churches, with the vessles and litters wherein and whereon the body of Christ and the bodies of saints and other relics of these were placed, that the heart, the liver and lungs as well as all the other intestiness of the said William, from which such perverted thoughs proceeded, be cast into the fire and burnt. And further, the inasmuch as it was not only against the Lord King himself, but agasint the whole Community of England and of Scotland, that he committed the aforesaid acts of sedition, spoliation, arson, and homicide, the body of the said William be cut up and divided into four parts, and that the head, so cut off, be set up on London Bridge, in the sight of such as pass by, whether by land or by water; and that one quarter be hung on a bigglet ast newcastle-upon-Tyne, another quarter at Berwick, a third quarter at Stirling, and the fourth at St Johnston, as a warning and a deterrent to all that pass by and behold them.

[DGP1]

I sent a card for Willian Wallace, I only just discoved he died in 1305 (this may not be true taken from wiki.....) .

Wallace was murdered by the Edward's direct orders on the 23rd August 1305 after a show trial in which he was not allowed to even speak never mind defend himself.
He was hung,burnt and quartered...old school death penalty.

And that thereafter, for the measureless turnitude of the deeds towards God and Holy Church in burning down churches, with the vessles and litters wherein and whereon the body of Christ and the bodies of saints and other relics of these were placed, that the heart, the liver and lungs as well as all the other intestiness of the said William, from which such perverted thoughs proceeded, be cast into the fire and burnt. And further, the inasmuch as it was not only against the Lord King himself, but agasint the whole Community of England and of Scotland, that he committed the aforesaid acts of sedition, spoliation, arson, and homicide, the body of the said William be cut up and divided into four parts, and that the head, so cut off, be set up on London Bridge, in the sight of such as pass by, whether by land or by water; and that one quarter be hung on a bigglet ast newcastle-upon-Tyne, another quarter at Berwick, a third quarter at Stirling, and the fourth at St Johnston, as a warning and a deterrent to all that pass by and behold them.

I think that was the jew hating, drink loving, American/Austrailian, English hating, right wing religious nut job version

[clashcityrocker]

Wallace was murdered by the Edward's direct orders on the 23rd August 1305 after a show trial in which he was not allowed to even speak never mind defend himself.

The template for every conduct case since?

[Straight4ward]

Farewell to all our Scottish fame,
Farewell our ancient glory!
Farewell even to the Scottish name.
So famed in martial story!
Now Sark runs over Salway sands,
And Tweed runs to the ocean,
To mark where England's province stands -
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

What force or guile could not subdue
Through many warlike ages
Is wrought now by a coward few
For hireling traitor's wages.
The English steel we could disdain,
Secure in valour's station;
But English gold has been our bane -
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

O, would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My old grey head had lain in clay (be buried)
With Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour
I will make this declaration :-
'We are bought and sold for English gold'-
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

[brothermagrew]

Think the terminology brother Fish is hung, drawn and quartered

Or more precisely hanged, drawn and quartered.

To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III (1216–1272) and his successor, Edward I (1272–1307). Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered (chopped into four pieces). Their remains were often displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge. For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burnt at the stake.

[fishtank]

Think the terminology brother Fish is hung, drawn and quartered

Usually it is but in the case of Wallace a special request was made to have his entrails burnt...allegedly while he was still alive although how alive you would be watching your insides burn is debatable.