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”.
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.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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
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.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
No, not a Taylor. Where are you on the shore, Wes?
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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.
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“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Who would take a perfectly beautiful piece of fish and chop it into mush? No thank you.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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.
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.
