Historical Satire Aficionados Pillows

Pomp and circumstance...WHAT?!

Gin Lane.

The Grasshopper's Feast: A Prophetic Vision

"What the...They wrapped me in toilet paper!"

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

Uses of a Dead Cat in History: Dead Cat Crown Jewels

"...No it does state here quite clearly...the right to bear arms...not arm bears."

Government Offices / In tray, No Exit tray.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding as written and as it would have been written if David Hume had invested in a word processor,

It started friendly enough...'I'm Henry VIII, my dear, but you may call me 'Hank'.'

Mortally Wounded at the Battle of Quebec, General James Wolfe Forgets His Last Words

Jack in the box on strike.

"We're to stop talking about 'budget cuts'. Apparently it's depressing for staff and clients..."

"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's."

'Dropping the Pilot'-the Fall of Bismarck

Early attempts at standardising currency.

'Raping and pillaging, Seniors' Tour, 898AD.'

A rare picture of Henry VIII's divorce lawyer.

John Bull presenting the building for the 1862 International Exhibition to Britannia

'Number three?', 'This is NOT a quiz!'

'Your Majesty, the peasants are out of bread!', 'Then let them eat low-carb stuff.'

'Syllogisms won't do you any good here, Mr Aristotle.'

'Mind if I head off a little early today?'

'It says here that later in life they were able to patch things up and became best of friends.'

'Put the sword back in the stone right now, little girl, and we'll pretend this never happened.'

Uses of a Dead Cat in History: Jesus has a Practice Before Raising Lazarus.

Royalty, Episcopacy, and Law.

'Make sport of the Queen.'

Romulus and Remus ( and their brother Derek )

Exotic Insects Arrive in England with Imported Fruit

"Ooops is a bit of an understatement, don't you think Cardigan?"

'The secret of life has been unknowable ever since we assigned it to a committee.'

"Oh stop it. You know perfectly well that before every battle the enemy shouts things at us that we may find offensive."

"For the glory of God Almighty, and in the names of the munificent King and munificent Queen of Spain, I do on a day—either a Friday preceding or a Monday directly following a weekend that is earlyish in but toward the middle of October—in this year of our Lord, 1492, claim this land."

"Stop calling everything Kafka-esque