Showing posts with label British to the bootstraps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British to the bootstraps. Show all posts
Sunday, 19 October 2014
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Shipshape And Bristol Fashion Tees
'Shipshape and Bristol fashion' is two phrases merged into one. Shipshape came first and has been used since the 17th century. It is recorded in Sir Henry Manwayring's The seaman's dictionary of 1644: "It being of no use for the Ship, but only for to make her Ship shapen, as they call it."
Bristol fashion which was added later, was first seen in the early 19th century; for example, this extract from John Davis' Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America, 1803:...says I to the girl, "this is neither shipshape, nor Bristol fashion."
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Saturday, 26 April 2014
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
Kitchener - Is That Spinach In Your Teeth Tee
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC was famous for his glorious moustache which he grew after losing a bet with the Duke of Cambridge in the officer's mess one night. Kitchener went on to fight many of Queen Victoria's little wars, winning one after the other but Kitchener lived with a terrible secret - he suffered a severe and irrational fear of spinach. Just looking at spinach made him nauseous and the smell of cooked spinach could lay him up for days. You won't read about this in the history books because the War Office went to great lengths to hide his phobia from the official records (imagine if the enemy found out) but I swear it's true.
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Kitchener - Pull Up Your Pants And Get A Job Tee
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC was famous for his glorious moustache which he grew after losing a bet with the Duke of Cambridge in the officer's mess one night. Kitchener went on to fight many of Queen Victoria's little wars, winning one after the other but Kitchener was forced to live in the shadow of his 'tache' which was immensely popular with the British public - so much so that when Kitchener was lost at sea in 1916 (his ship was sunk by a German U-boat) the British people donated thousands of pounds to the moustache recovery effort. The sad truth is that neither man or moustache were found however a Kitchener's moustache shaped object washed up on beach in Scotland in 1923. At the time, the object was described as 'very 'tachey' and 'quite Kitcheny" and in 1924 it was declared the 'one true moustache' and given it's own state funeral.
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Monday, 21 April 2014
Saint George Tee
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;
Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,
Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!
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Wednesday, 19 March 2014
King George III Tee
King George III Tee Shirt by retrofitthefuture
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King George III is largely remembered for those periods when he lost his mind due to the 1994 movie 'The Madness of King George' starring the delightful Helen Mirren as Queen Charlotte (she really needs to be careful or she will be typecast) Actually, King George never saw the movie, cinema wasn't around back then, but I'm convinced that he wouldn't have liked it. Anyway, he probably wasn't as mad as everyone says - boffins have tested a sample of the King’s hair and found that it contains over 300 times the toxic level of arsenic. King George's bizarre behaviour and wild outbursts were treated as insanity, the poor bugger was bound in a straitjacket and chained to a chair to control his ravings. King George was officially mad (by the standards of the time) but then, in the 1970's, a new and controversial diagnosis was made. Two psychiatrists looked over the king's medical records and noticed a key symptom; dark red urine - a classic and unmistakable sign of a rare blood disorder called porphyria which can cause severe abdominal pain, cramps, and even seizure-like epileptic fits. Porphyria attacks can be triggered by a wide range of substances - alcohol, common medication, even monthly hormones and possibly arsenic. The most common medication he was given was James' powders, a routine medicine he was being given several times a day - made of a substance called antimony and antimony, even when purified, contains significant traces of arsenic. The arsenic from the very medication he was being given to control his "madness" was triggering more attacks and his porphyric attacks had been brought on after a lifetime's arsenic accumulated in his body, and then were made much more prolonged and more severe by the medicine to treat him. Of course when he died, his son, the Prince Regent became King George IV and he really was as mad as a box of frogs (and most likely addicted to laudanum)
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Saturday, 4 January 2014
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
John Bull on A Saturday Night Tee
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Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk,
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.
Music loud and women warm.
I've been kicked around since I was born.
And now it's all right, it's O.K.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand The New York Times' effect on man.
Whether you're a brother Or whether you're a mother,
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the city breakin' And ev'rybody shaken'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, Stayin' alive.
Stayin' alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, Stayin' alive.
Saturday, 16 November 2013
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
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