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This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:45 am
by MajGenl.Meade
14 Dec 2014 Sunday Times South Africa
BBC skirts codpiece issue for US audiences ‘Wolf Hall’ costume detail shrunk to avoid offence
It was a symbol of your virility, your sense of adventure ... and Henry liked them
THEY may have been the crowning glory of any right-thinking Tudor gentleman, but it appears the traditional codpiece may be a little too much for US television viewers.
The stars of Wolf Hall, the BBC’s new period drama based on the novels of Hilary Mantel, have disclosed that they have been issued with smaller-than usual codpieces, out of respect for viewers’ sensibilities.
Mark Rylance, who stars as Thomas Cromwell in the forthcoming series, said programme makers had decided on “very small codpieces” that had to be “tucked away”.
He suggested allowances had been made amid concerns about the taste of modern audiences, particularly in the US, who “may not know exactly what’s going on down there”. © The Daily Telegraph, London
Baldrick: My Uncle Baldrick was in a play once.
Blackadder: Really?
Baldrick: Yeah. It was called Macbeth.
Blackadder: And what did he play?
Baldrick: Second codpiece. Macbeth wore him in the fight scenes.
Blackadder: So, he was a stunt codpiece.
Baldrick: Yeah, that's right.
Blackadder: Did he have a large part?
Baldrick: Depends who was playing Macbeth.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:41 pm
by Guinevere
Puritans, puritans, always puritans. It's in our national bloodline, even if we all weren't born in Massachusetts Bay in the 17th century, or directly related thereto.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:48 pm
by wesw
speak for yourself, some of us on the eastern shore are probably descendants of the survivors of the lost colony of Roanoke and pirates and Indians, with a little Viking thrown in
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:52 pm
by Guinevere
Wes, my family settled the Eastern Shore in the early 18th century. Dorchester County. Taylor's Island. We came from England, possibly via Virgina, but we were not Puritans.
But that's beside the point that I made above. Most Americans are not Puritans, but we still carry a strong puritan ethic as part of our national identity.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:53 pm
by wesw
oh and Methodists, can t forget the Methodists!
guin, are you a taylor? we may actually be related!
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:55 pm
by Guinevere
No, not a Taylor. Where are you on the shore, Wes?
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:57 pm
by wesw
actually my sister s dad, my stepfather was a taylor from deal island, his grand dad was a skipjack captain, Zachary taylor.
my moms family was from the eastern shore of Virginia and somerset county.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:59 pm
by wesw
I m a Wicomico county boy. the Nanticoke and Wicomico rivers were my stomping grounds
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:01 pm
by Guinevere
My family moved to Baltimore right about the time of the Civil War, and my parents grew up at the city limits. I grew up in the county. But my grandfather retired to the eastern shore in the 70s, and my uncle lives there now - in Queenstown. We have a bunch of distant cousins still in Dorchester county and surrounds, all still with the same family name. There were several "plantations" (aka farms) with the same name - X's Folly, X's Delight, X's Plantation -- and a bunch of my early ancestors are buried in the churchyard at the Taylor Island church (or just over the river) which is now an AME church I believe.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:04 pm
by wesw
let s see.... taylor s island....
sterling? that s more smith island tho....
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:08 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
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New England cod pieces
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:19 pm
by Guinevere
See how small they are?
Who would take a perfectly beautiful piece of fish and chop it into mush? No thank you.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 1:34 pm
by wesw
I actually had a piece of codfish that tasted good a few weeks ago at the hospital cafeteria. they have good food.
I never had a tasty pc of cod the whole time in MA. I ll stick with rockfish (stripers)
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:09 pm
by TPFKA@W
My grandfather was born here but his parents were born in Austria. Other great-grandfather was born in Saxony. One great grandmother got off the boat from Ireland. Another grandparent came from Scotland. I am happy to report no Puritans in my lineage that I am aware of.
Living naughty and Puritan free since 1959.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:23 pm
by wesw
I don t know, those Scottish Presbyterians come pretty darn close....
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:26 pm
by Big RR
No puritans in my past either, so far as I know, but the Norwegian and Danish lutherans who came here at the turn of the century were hardly embracers of permissiveness (if my grandparents were good examples of them). Nothing like the Sweden I was led to believe existed in the 60s from the movies I saw in "art" (OK porno) houses.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:37 pm
by wesw
yeah, Lutherans, they were the germans I was thinking of.... I ll blame the lyme disease
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:48 pm
by BoSoxGal
Mayflower Puritans on the left of me, anal-retentive Germans on the right . . .
Somehow I missed out on the codpiece before now - still learning new things every day!
As to the codpiece:
Just. Wow.
Re: This in a country that invented "Supersize me"?
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:50 pm
by BoSoxGal
MajGenl.Meade wrote:.
New England cod pieces
Yummy!