From: tppm@ca.rr.com   
      
   On Fri, 3 May 2024 18:10:39 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >> Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   >>> In related news, I recently won a bet that I could name all the   
   >>> English/British monarchs of the past thousand years.   
   >   
   >> Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee,   
   >> Harry, Dick, John, Harry three;   
   >> One two three Neds, Richard two,   
   >> Harrys four five six, ... then who?   
   >> Edwards four five, Dick the bad,   
   >> Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad);   
   >> Mary, Bessie, James you ken,   
   >> Then Charlie, Charlie, James again;   
   >> Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,   
   >> Georges four, Will four, Victoria;   
   >> Edward seven, George and Ted,   
   >> George the sixth, now Liz instead.   
   >   
   >Not quite.  Your list starts 958 years ago, and ends 2 years ago,   
   >for a total of just 956 years.   
   >   
   >A thousand years ago England was ruled by a Dane whose four-letter   
   >name has been amusing dyslexics for centuries.  Then came Harold,   
   >Harthacnut, Ed the zeroth (well, he was the last Ed before Ed I, so   
   >what else would you call him?), and another Harold.   
   >   
   >Your list also skips Jane, teenaged queen for nine days back in '53.   
   >How can anyone forget her?   
      
   He also left out Cromwell.   
   >   
   >Amusingly, Charles III is not descended from Charles II, but his   
   >children are.  So the Jacobites will finally have won.   
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