Today, as you are undoubtedly aware, is the 610th anniversary of Geoffrey Chaucer's death. Let us take this time to commemorate the fact that you probably Cliffs Notes-ed "The Canterbury Tales" in high school.
Chaucer is best remembered as the drunk, poor, slovenly character played by Paul Bettany in 2001's A Knight's Tale. In reality, however, he was a bureaucratic, well-kempt drunk who was given a gallon of wine per day by King Edward III for doing something apparently awesome in 13741,2
So consider that in the United Kingdom, "Where's Waldo" is known as "Where's Wally" and as it turns out, Bert (of Sesame Street fame) finally came out on Twitter3.
Footnotes:
1http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/10/25
2Lost in Translation: 1 Imperial Gallon = 1.2 US Gallons
3http://gawker.com/5672328/did-bert-from-sesame-street-come-out-as-gay-on-twitter
2 comments:
I like the usage of the apositive, "of Sesame Street Fame," for Bert
I agree with every point made in this blog post.
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