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Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:41:01 GMT
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Richard Marchetti wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Rose Regner writes:
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> > I find this whole thread rather amusing. Put a few curves on a minifig and
> > it sends you guys into a boob frenzy.
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> Hey, if we all actually looked like lego minifigures we would all need to diet
> very badly -- well, maybe not if you looked like the lego skeleton.
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> But if you are gonna define a castle female mini, she has to be corsetted! To
> omit the wasp-waist would be just as great an act of omission as to forget the
> essentially useless chainmail on a male castle mini. Taking it one step
> further, its my understanding that many court ladies of the same period
> ACTUALLY went about with their breasts completely exposed above the corset.
> The only pictorial representation of this fashion that I can think of is an
> old John Bolton story in "A-1" magazine (a British comic anthology).
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> Apparently, Queen Elizabeth -- who reigned for so long -- followed this
> fashion to a point of embarassment for the rest of the court, continuing to
> expose her breasts long after they had lost their "essential" attractiveness
> to her advanced years! Not quite the image one gets from the terrific film of
> last year about Elizabeth, but there it is...
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> Perhaps those better informed can refute or support this historical claim of
> mine. My source, and I hope he wouldn't cringe to see his name here, is U.C.
> Berkeley English Professor and Shakespeare authority Hugh Richmond. I asked
> him about it one day, and turning his head slant-wise to me as if to get a
> better look at the upstart English major, he confirmed the essentials of what
> I have related here. I dunno, maybe at the time he would have preferred the
> discussion were more about Thomas Wyatt's poetry and less about my prurient
> interests...
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> -- Richard
QE1, when she died in 1603 was well into her 70's. It's not quite the picture of
her one conjours up when you think of all those portraits of her in her full
regalia, with bejewelled gowns and ruffled collars that showed no exposed flesh
except her face and hands. But I don't question the accuracy of it. She had an
interesting life with all of her suitors and the men in her court (her "eyes", her
"ears", etc, as she like to call them).
And now for something LEGO.... they should make a QE1 minifig. Actually they
should also make a Henry VIII and his 6 wives minifigs as well. At least the
portly Henry VIII would be pretty true to minifig scale (fat). It would be great
for the castle series. As a lover of European history (and especially English
history), these might even make me finally break down and actually "like"
minifigs.
Gary Istok
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| (...) Sometimes, these fellows also ended up dead--Raleigh, Devereux/Essex, and the like. It seems that the less comprehensible England became to Elizabeth, the greater her rage against her "favourites". (I've actually set eyes on a number of the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hey, if we all actually looked like lego minifigures we would all need to diet very badly -- well, maybe not if you looked like the lego skeleton. But if you are gonna define a castle female mini, she has to be corsetted! To omit the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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