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From: Tim Merrigan <tppm@ca.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Household Algebra
Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 14:39:01 -0700
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On Fri, 3 May 2024 18:10:39 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
<kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

>Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>> In related news, I recently won a bet that I could name all the
>>> English/British monarchs of the past thousand years.
>
>> Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee,
>> Harry, Dick, John, Harry three;
>> One two three Neds, Richard two,
>> Harrys four five six, ... then who?
>> Edwards four five, Dick the bad,
>> Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad);
>> Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
>> Then Charlie, Charlie, James again;
>> Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,
>> Georges four, Will four, Victoria;
>> Edward seven, George and Ted,
>> George the sixth, now Liz instead.
>
>Not quite.  Your list starts 958 years ago, and ends 2 years ago,
>for a total of just 956 years.
>
>A thousand years ago England was ruled by a Dane whose four-letter
>name has been amusing dyslexics for centuries.  Then came Harold,
>Harthacnut, Ed the zeroth (well, he was the last Ed before Ed I, so
>what else would you call him?), and another Harold.
>
>Your list also skips Jane, teenaged queen for nine days back in '53.
>How can anyone forget her?

He also left out Cromwell.
>
>Amusingly, Charles III is not descended from Charles II, but his
>children are.  So the Jacobites will finally have won.
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Tim Merrigan

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