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Terror stalks Cademan Woods.
Key Quote: Mr Hancock, deputy managing director of confectionery wholesalers of Hancock Holdings, of Loughborough, said no re-enactment group had been given permission to be in the woods, although there was a public footpath through the site.
(Thanks to Fi Craig)
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second!
Posted by: buddy | June 23, 2004 at 07:22 AM
thirdman is third!
Posted by: thirdman | June 23, 2004 at 07:29 AM
"Come back and I'll taunt you some more, you Englishman!"
"I fart in your general direction."
NOW, those are insults!
Posted by: kibby F5 | June 23, 2004 at 07:31 AM
I like the picture of the guy furtively peeking through the bushes, as if there was a major Matlock-style adventure taking place.
Actually, it may or may not be Matlock-style. I've never actually watched Matlock.
Posted by: gfunksizzle | June 23, 2004 at 07:38 AM
What a polite solicitation at the end of the article to telephone the newspaper with your personal reenactment story. More papers should be this interactive.
Posted by: Boo Augustus | June 23, 2004 at 07:39 AM
"Perhaps it was a group living out their fantasies."
Well, I don't know about the rest of you but one of my long held fantasies has always been to dress up in armor and shout "You killed my dog and I am going to take revenge. I will kill you."
It doesn't get any better than that.
I'm sure it was an intensity.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | June 23, 2004 at 07:48 AM
"Peter Liiddle, keeper of Donington le Heath Manor House, near Hugglescote"
ooooooooooookay.
Posted by: judi | June 23, 2004 at 07:53 AM
Like omagod! Judi, I had the exact same thought.
Posted by: Boo August | June 23, 2004 at 07:57 AM
Re enactment of other fantasies would scare the horses
Posted by: Tiko | June 23, 2004 at 07:59 AM
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!"
Yeah! and what you said Kibby
Posted by: queensbee | June 23, 2004 at 07:59 AM
Take heart MP fans
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 23, 2004 at 08:00 AM
So wait a sec, re-enactment groups are not acting out their fanatasies too?
Posted by: Boo Augustus | June 23, 2004 at 08:05 AM
Its a good thing they weren't trying to chop down the tallest tree in the forest with a herring. Was the nearby nursery owned by John the Shrubber?
Bring me a shrubbery!!
Posted by: kb | June 23, 2004 at 08:08 AM
Yelling abuses at each other? Is that like screaming "Throw you down the stairs!", "Hot iron!", "Lock you in the cupboard!", "Make you watch HGTV!", "Silent treatment!", etc.?
Posted by: dave | June 23, 2004 at 08:10 AM
Cant wait for Spamalot myself. I push the pramalot. thanks mahatma.
Posted by: queensbee | June 23, 2004 at 08:10 AM
It looks like Kathy is a few bricks short of a full load. And why won't someone arrest her for that awful website? It's a crime against humanity.
Posted by: Ruth | June 23, 2004 at 08:15 AM
I sooooooooo want to "ring Jim McPheator at the Mercury's Coalville office, on 01530 812574."
How very British, to expect someone to "ring": "Oh yes, pardon me very much indeed, but I am one of the malcreants whom you seek. Sorry, old bean. Those medieval dog-revenge fantasies just got the best of me, wot wot?"
Posted by: Rachel | June 23, 2004 at 09:05 AM
Hmph. More proof that Brits can't speak English. This sale promises pickled bums and all we get are pickled butts.
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 23, 2004 at 09:08 AM
I'm thinking this sounds more like an episode of Blackadder myself. Does anybody else remember that show?
Posted by: Alice | June 23, 2004 at 09:34 AM
Before the entire mixup was straightened out, several of the participants were put in stocks, two had been beheaded and one first-class witch was given a dirndl and burned at the stake.
Posted by: Lairbo | June 23, 2004 at 09:48 AM
I do remember that show Alice, and I think you are right, but Blackadder quotes aren't nearly as much FUN as say, "What, an African or a European swallow?" "I don't know that." "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
Posted by: looney girl | June 23, 2004 at 09:50 AM
Not HGTV!!!! Noooooooooooooooooooo!
Also, Neet!
Posted by: Lee | June 23, 2004 at 09:55 AM
"Thy underwear smelt of rotten eggs Forsythe!"
"Rogue!Take that back! Thy mother slept with Prince Charles"
"gasp!!!"
.............................................
* whose woods are these i think i know
his house is in the village though
he will not here me shout abuse
bout dogs and such in the undergrowth*
---R.Frost
Plz feel free to complete the rest of the poem
Posted by: Bangi_G | June 23, 2004 at 10:04 AM
How dare you say NEET to this helpless blog!!
Posted by: looney girl | June 23, 2004 at 10:08 AM
and Blackadder had a catchy theme song as well...i think i liked the renaissance one the best. i like blackadder more than mr bean, his next character.
Posted by: queensbee | June 23, 2004 at 10:23 AM
kb,
Not that I'm knocking you're Monty Python knowledge, however, he was Roger the Shrubber.
They call me.....Tim?
Posted by: Brian B | June 23, 2004 at 10:23 AM
kb,
Not that I'm knocking your Monty Python knowledge, however, he was Roger the Shrubber.
They call me.....Tim?
Posted by: Brian B | June 23, 2004 at 10:24 AM
Alice, yes. I loved BLACK ADDER, especially the first two series, which I have on tape.
"I have a cunning plan, my lord."
"Let's get those meek bastards now."
queensbee: you mean this. A classic.
I also loved the episode with the Spanish infanta, and the Witchsmeller Pursuivant. My wife, for some perverse reason, likes the last episode of the first series, with the 5 most evil men in the kingdom.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | June 23, 2004 at 10:54 AM
I think all the bloglits should telephone the newspaper office (one at a time, not some huge collective teleconference) and ask if they have Prince Albert in a can.
Posted by: Boo Augustus | June 23, 2004 at 10:57 AM
Yes, Boo, good idea. You start and tell us how it goes.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | June 23, 2004 at 10:59 AM
Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoom-boing-mumble-mumble?
Also, In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels. And there was much rejoicing. Yay!
Posted by: Lee | June 23, 2004 at 11:06 AM
I bow to your superior Monty Python knowledge Lee!!
Posted by: looney girl | June 23, 2004 at 11:34 AM
indeed lee!! but it might be icky-icky-icky p'tang. i'll have to go back and look.... i know i can recite it along with the programmme when its on....
Posted by: queensbee | June 23, 2004 at 11:51 AM
Queensbee, I am awed by your Python-ness and therefore wave my private parts in your general direction!
Posted by: jamester | June 23, 2004 at 12:09 PM
What if your parents had nmaed you Bela berry?
Posted by: belalugosi | June 23, 2004 at 12:32 PM
Shouldn't that be Caedmon?
Posted by: chaosd | June 23, 2004 at 01:02 PM
You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
Posted by: MOTW | June 23, 2004 at 02:15 PM
Python-ness is a state of mind. Thanks, Jamester... and the pythonness of this blog is amazing...we need to get Eric or Palin on Terry J to blog with us!! Hail Arthur King of the Britons! Who are the Britons? We are the .... uh-oh....
Posted by: queensbee | June 23, 2004 at 03:47 PM
Oh, Roger the Shrubber! No wonder they were in the wrong forest!
Posted by: kb | June 23, 2004 at 06:49 PM
Well, now, uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French by surprise - not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!
Posted by: kibby F5 | June 23, 2004 at 11:28 PM
Man, y'all are hard-core MP fans.
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 24, 2004 at 04:44 AM
Here you go, and no fighting now.
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 24, 2004 at 04:48 AM
Somehow I just CANNOT see my little ones curling up with THAT at night ... or any time.
Good selection though MKJ!
Posted by: kibby F5 | June 24, 2004 at 05:54 AM
Do the teeth glow in the dark? That would be cool.
Posted by: MOTW | June 24, 2004 at 06:12 AM
Lest we forget
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves | June 24, 2004 at 06:28 AM
What, the curtains?
Posted by: igwanna | June 24, 2004 at 08:18 AM
I was taught by a girlfriend in college that it was:
Ecky Ecky Ecky pi-KANG ribbalt p'gong schlowshge m'la mmmmm
Posted by: igwanna | June 24, 2004 at 08:20 AM
if you say so. and its tim on the bridge, and roger the shrubber. do i have that right?
Posted by: queensbee | June 24, 2004 at 09:55 AM
what, no peter pan jokes out of this?
Posted by: pj | June 24, 2004 at 11:52 AM