He/She's B-a-a-a-c-k!
Amanda B Reckondwyth
Mystery Worship Editor
in Heaven
If it could happen, what former world leader, now dead, would you want to come back, and why?
I vote for Good Queen Bess. She had a sense of humor and took no guff.
I vote for Good Queen Bess. She had a sense of humor and took no guff.
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Yes, and (although he never became Prime Minister), the late John Smith:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)
To stain the Page - therewith -
My tiny Hand - to capture -
For future Folk - a Gift -
Do you mean you want him to come back and wander around preaching again, or do you want him to have his Second Coming?
I was thinking "second coming," but it was a joke. I'm in no rush for the end times personally.
Under the pseudonym of Will Rushton, he's already written the Can't be Worried Tales.
In case you hadn't noticed, she's Not Dead Yet...assuming you mean QE II?
Only because I sing the national anthem on a daily basis
LBJ might be better at dealing with the current GOP.
Why?
I'll hazard a guess, and say that it's because of the major reforms of Parliament carried out during William IV's reign.
In similar vein, bring back Oliver Cromwell. Not only did he *reform* Parliament, but he also abolished Christmas...
Just for the fun of watching the Grauniad headlines.
Just who is this King Tunc, anyway?
Good job I wasn't drinking tea!
A misunderstood Dane.
*ahem*
Coming a bit closer to modern-ish history, how about Mary II? Joint ruler with William III from 1688 until her untimely death in 1694. She seems to have been a popular figure, and carried out many royal duties whilst her husband was abroad.
Alternative history is intriguing, and one wonders how England might have turned out had she lived long enough to succeed William III in 1702 (she would have been only 40 then), and had had children to succeed her.
Why, we might never have ended up with the German usurpers...
/slight tangent/
A commemorative 50p piece was issued in 1994, to mark the 300th anniversary of her death, and I recall having to explain to one or two colleagues just who she was.
Well, I guess the USA have just had the Orange...
Referring to that book shows your age, which is probably not A Good Thing.
Those books are still in print and I think I have a first edition (my Dad bought it). So Sandemaniac is not giving his age away too much.
So am I if you use base 13 or above.
I read a very interesting biography of her.
Her education was limited to the three R's, except for theology which was taught at great length. She appears to have been born with a strong aptitude for common sense. In the face of little education, her common sense flourished and she frequently could see things that better-educated people could not.
She'd make mincemeat of the present *government*, I think...as Prime Minister, rather than as monarch, though, in these enlightened times.
I think it was either the Duke of Buckingham or someone at the behest of Henry Tudor, but I'm a bit of a Ricardian.
Like Christ, he'd probably try to convince the people that poverty is a virtue.
I've just turned 40, and I definitely feel young around here.
In strength or otherwise?
Methuselah's?