Posted on 05/01/2015 7:10:28 AM PDT by C19fan
The codpieces used in the hit BBC drama Wolf Hall were too small and should have been double the size, according to an expert. This is one of a number of inaccuracy spotted in the big budget adaptation of Hilary Mantel's books and was said to have been done so as not to offend and baffle the shows American audience. Victoria Miller, who has researched the codpiece for her PHD, said those used in the show would have been far too modest for Henry VIII's court.
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That’s why there are no more Tudors..................;^)
I clinked on the link thinking it was about one of my favorite white fish.
LOL!
Shouldn’t they be called “troutpieces” instead?
What the heck is “twice as small”? Is that an idiot’s way of saying half as large?
Lookin up meaning of “white fish” in Ye Olde Urban Dictionarie.
“Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is,
How giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between
Fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them
Like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime
Like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime
Like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten
Tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
I get it, its where they kept their fish and chips so they could snacke when they were hungry.
As Vito used to say (in his best Bo Dietl Brooklyn accent), “It ain’t big, but it’s thick~”
Half the size, one fourth the size...well one of those..
BTW is this item of clothing like stuffing a bra ???
:)
yeah and the olde salt is kept in their navel..
:)
And her loyal research assistant, Harry Merkin.
Precisely. God gave us navels to hold the salt when we're eating celery in bed.
I don’t remember how the topic came up, but a few months ago my girlfriend and I were wondering if anyone still manufactures codpieces. I don’t think they have them at Sears or J.C. Penney. :-)
If ya got it, flaunt it. Just don’t step on it.
‘Twice as small’??? Pet peeve of mine: multiplication is for positive results; wouldn’t it be ‘one half the size of’? Just wondering
“Harry Merkin”? LOL You ARE a scholar, sir.
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