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For what purpose would you use a Priest???


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GT

Clubbing a fish on the head? A priest is a baton that line fishermen use to subdue the wriggly sods when you land them.

Is this a Terry Pratchett job? They're metal overshoes to protect against spikes and caltraps. So-called because they 'save your soles'.

I don't care if I get a klaxon; it was worth it to share.

B

Sod, sod, sod!!!

Right Deaky!!


You get a +3


I get a +2 for being the elf!!


Thread dead!


GT

Ooops, sorry for ruining it too quickly - Hubby's a fisherman and has a couple of them in the shed!

Actually - it makes the Pratchett joke all the more apposite, doesn't it?

B

OK Deaky!!!

No worries!!


More will come!!!



GT

Sorry!

This was a QI


GT

General Sir Charles Napier, was attempting to quell dissent in the province of Sindh in Pakistan.

After capturing the city (his orders were only to suppress the riots not take over, but never one to do anything by half measures, he is supposed to have telegrammed back to headquarters the pithiest one-word retort ever committed to paper

"Peccavi" – Latin for "I have sinned."

I thought of the Pratchett one too, from Pyramids, one of my favourite Discworld books. (Pteppic. )

But I also thought of Nevil Shute. Isn't a priest a vehicle for beech landings, mentioned in Requiem for a Wren? I could be remembering it wrong.

I think there are a lot of priests out there, of various sorts.

TRiG.

I think there are a lot of priests out there, of various sorts.

Aye, there are. Tripitaka is on my DVD shelf (shelves )

Peccavi came up in a previous QI, Clive and I pointed out that Napier didn't say that. Catherine Winkworth, then a schoolgirl, thought of the pun and was encouraged to send her idea to Punch in which it duly appeared on 18th May 1844.

Van

I stand corrected.

I shall have to tell my father who duly told me, he'll be so disappointed.

Where can I find out more?