1076-1080, success comes to the languid and other tales
Now where were we, oh yes 1076, I remember it well
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ou can't even remember your own name
shut up, now I'm gonna teach the kids the merits of patience ...
oh can't we play poker instead?
ah yes that was the Earl's mellow yellow period, so calm and cool he was.
Impressive.
I mean he really looked after the kids
and he was pretty nice to Eric ... for the moment
not for long though
and then King Malcolm, spurred on by the idiot Elspeth actually accepted the validity of his fake claim to Galloway
we were all called up
which of course went really well
but grandfather, how did you survive
Oh ... I was off getting the messages at the time [1]
but did the earl panic ... not a bit, calm as you like
why should the war stop him having a good time
and he packed off another utter nutter into the Royal Family
almost as if he didn't like them?
And Queen Elspeth bumped off Malcolm [2]
leaving Duncan married to a complete psycho
all without him doing a thing
of course we all got massacred again, but he remained so calm
and ended up Earl of Galloway
ok he felt antsy for a while
but got over it
And Eric died, mysterious like
So kids whats the lesson of the day?
Be a lazy sod and it'll all work out fine
right I'm off for a nap
[1] – getting the messages = doing the shopping
[2] – or drove him nuts ... who knows?