The Tale of the Asse-Hatte

Frank Pulley

Surely Archie can't survive after that? He will have a troubled night if someone has laid it on his desk. Having read it and your previous post I shall sleep, gurgling, like a baby.

Verity

Bloody brilliant! Who could survive that last line?

Herbert Thornton

Oh, Lord, it's made my evening too.

Somebody should do something similar, on the lines of Tales of the Arabian Nights, complete with oil-rich, Mosque-building Sheikhs and a Chief Eunuch, and set in a country called Rowanistan.

Brian O'Connor

What a wonderful parody, and how very apt.

There is nothing so diminishing of one's pretensions than for them to be the object of biting ridicule.

I think this calls for a paraphrase of Joseph Heller's description of Major Major in the classic novel Catch-22.

Some people are born ridiculous. Some have ridicule thrust upon them. But the Revd Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, achieved ridiculousness the old-fashioned way: through his own hard work.

kate b

Good morning! Ha ha, this made my day and it's only just begun. Should be slipped into 'A' level English lit lessons, just for jest.

Tom Power

Oh this is truly priceless. It needs reciting on Radio 4 prime time.

J. Isaacs

Absolutely brilliant. Hope this is just The Prologue. More please.

Norm

Hilariously funning, frightenly true, definately scary.

Harry

Wonderful, wonderful. Why do the Americans do everything better?

Stanley Jerusalem Israel

Would that William Chaucer were here to enjoy it too. He would readily understand the ambivalence of the clergy.

Stanley Jerusalem Israel

That's William spelt G E O F F R E Y Chaucer - Sorry!

Verity

Harry - "Wonderful, wonderful. Why do the Americans do everything better?" I think it has something to do with being unfettered. The British are enmeshed and coiled around with Thought Fascism and have had that urge to freedome of expression beaten out of them. Also, they never had BurmaShave billboards.

Monomachus

To the point and incisive. Really, Cantuar should don sackcloth and ash on his already wizening head.

Harry

I agree, Verity, I agree!

J. Isaacs

Stanley, maybe The Pardoner's Tale will be revisited and the CofE will SELL you some indulgences.

Stanley Jerusalem Israel

Thank you J.Isaacs for reminding me. Joe Brearley, Grocers 1956 Eng. Lit. O Level. I was of course confusing him with Geoffrey Shakespeare.

Skookumchuk

Iowahawk is one of our best exports.

David

*heh*

I'm sure the good Geoffrey would've approved.

Max Kaye

Brilliant! Thanks.

Frank Pulley

Caught QT tonight - great gig Melanie; you floored Archie's lying henchman and the audience were on your side throughout. Perhaps the groundlings are at last awakening.

Hereford

I also watched QT. I love that programme, one of the Beeb's best. Has anyone else noticed that Dimbleby is becoming less and less protective of Government/establishment representatives, and a deal more questioning in his own right.

Michael B

Amazing. Wonderful. Iowahawk for ABofC. In this virtual age he could reign from Iowa, perhaps making an annual pilgrimage to Lambeth to dust off the lamp shades, straighten out the PofW, etc.

Pope Benedict

Absolutely priceless. Caused me to splutter my coffee. Excellent. I'll post it to the AoC at Lambeth Palace, just for a larf. Bless you all.

Hunt S. Cross

Achingly funny. No Nobel prize for literature heading Iowahawk's way, I suppose?

Jamie Hunter

This is so wonderful on so many levels. Truly too good not to share :) Ian Gillan used the phrase "godswallop" on his website, this is a word we should all use to highlight the imbecilic utterances of the churches.

Richard Rosenblatt

Riotously funny. Reassures me that not all Brits are barking mad.