Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Monarchs [was Re: Household Algebra] Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 12:16:09 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 18:16:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f336805a3ae8170ccd998f37e06f3961"; logging-data="2055654"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+y6cZBnDqLmmgnHUugaOc6" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ORzP9oU4/BvJ4ciOsEAOY82lNos= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2286 On 5/3/24 6:36 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote: > Tim Merrigan wrote: >> "Keith F. Lynch" wrote: >>> Your list also skips Jane, teenaged queen for nine days back in >>> '53. How can anyone forget her? > >> He also left out Cromwell. > > Evelyn is a she, not a he. And Cromwell was not a monarch. > Anyhow, there were two ruling Cromwells, Oliver and his son Richard. > (Apparently "Lord Protector," like monarch, is an inherited position.) For the record, I'm not fussy about my pronouns, and "Evelyn" being gender-neutral, I'm used both to mispronunciation (as "EE-va-lin" rather than "EV-a-lin"), and to random pronouns. As for not going back a thousand years, I never claimed the poem did, and it skips several "iffy" monarchs (notably Matilda, Eustace, Henry the Young King, Louis the Lion, and Jane). -- Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn, @eleeper@mastodon.social Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. --Sir Winston Churchill