Comments on: Robert the Bruce, He Ain’t http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/10/robert_the_bruc.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:16:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/10/robert_the_bruc.html#comment-14772 Rueful Red Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:18:56 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/10/29/robert_the_bruce_he_aint.html#comment-14772 <p>My mother-in-law's middle name is Bruce. Family name. There are some very posh people called Bruce in Scotland, but my mother-in-law's not one of them. Not that she knows that, of course.</p> <p>On the other hand, in Australia, it sometimes tends to the, er, demotic:</p> <p>http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eqgnExSiS0s</p> My mother-in-law’s middle name is Bruce. Family name. There are some very posh people called Bruce in Scotland, but my mother-in-law’s not one of them. Not that she knows that, of course.

On the other hand, in Australia, it sometimes tends to the, er, demotic:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eqgnExSiS0s

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/10/robert_the_bruc.html#comment-14771 ninme Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:14:45 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/10/29/robert_the_bruce_he_aint.html#comment-14771 <p>Well, I'd take a stab at answering your question, but I don't think it would be my place to...</p> <p><i>cough</i></p> Well, I’d take a stab at answering your question, but I don’t think it would be my place to…

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]]> By: Bubblehead http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/10/robert_the_bruc.html#comment-14770 Bubblehead Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:03:46 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/10/29/robert_the_bruce_he_aint.html#comment-14770 <p>I think "Robert the Bruce" is like the coolest name ever -- in all of recorded history. What is a "Bruce" anyway? It doesn't matter, because it rocks. The combination of two first names, separated by "the", is inherently awesome. (My dad's first name is "Bruce", so that probably makes it even more kewl for me.)</p> <p>From now on, I shall be known as "Joel the Robert".</p> I think “Robert the Bruce” is like the coolest name ever — in all of recorded history. What is a “Bruce” anyway? It doesn’t matter, because it rocks. The combination of two first names, separated by “the”, is inherently awesome. (My dad’s first name is “Bruce”, so that probably makes it even more kewl for me.)

From now on, I shall be known as “Joel the Robert”.

]]> By: Brett_McS http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/10/robert_the_bruc.html#comment-14769 Brett_McS Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:21:34 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/10/29/robert_the_bruce_he_aint.html#comment-14769 <p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084786/" rel="nofollow">"They Call Me Bruce?"</a></p> “They Call Me Bruce?”

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/10/robert_the_bruc.html#comment-14768 Rueful Red Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:57:53 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/10/29/robert_the_bruce_he_aint.html#comment-14768 <p>I didn't go to the conference this year, but I'm told it was ever so slick in comparison with former years, where there's be people raising funds for the party by selling home made jam and such. Now they can rent out stalls to lobbyists for worthwhile money. Pity really. I used to like it when the Nats looked like, as Alan Cochrane observed "Conservatives in their gardening clothes". No longer.</p> I didn’t go to the conference this year, but I’m told it was ever so slick in comparison with former years, where there’s be people raising funds for the party by selling home made jam and such. Now they can rent out stalls to lobbyists for worthwhile money. Pity really. I used to like it when the Nats looked like, as Alan Cochrane observed “Conservatives in their gardening clothes”. No longer.

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