“Why are you wearing all red to play in the band at your school’s game against York High School? I thought your school’s colors were silver and blue.”
“Their colors are green and white and we learned about the War of the Roses in History today.”
Crap, I’ve raised a Lancastrian.
“The only person who got it was Izzie and she was playing a Yu Gi Oh video game at the time so she’s geekier than I am.”
You don’t explain why you blame her mother. Enquiring minds want to know.
The Lancasters have better lines, anyway. The molehill speech alone puts the ball in their court, and the curses in Richard III knock it out of the park.
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Hey, I’m a Shakespeare fanatic, not a sports one. 
Well, the Tudors were sympathetic to the Lancastrians, so Shakespeare gave the Lancastrians all the best lines.
Personally, I’ve always been a Yorkist.
Perhaps this will explain. We sent the kiddies off to church camp for the weekend and headed out for dinner. The guy at the next table was reading “The Six Wives of Henry VIII” so I got an earful of how the Boleyns had even more money than the Seymours but Anne’s sister Mary, who Henry knocked up twice, grumbled how none of it got thrown HER way, though plenty of her family made out real well because of her relationship with him but after Anne’s unpleasantness Mary decided a voluntary low profile was better than a compulsory one so she packed it off to the boonies with her hubby and her kids and laid low the rest of her life. At least, that’s how I remember it. The guy at the next table ignored her and kept reading. I’m required by law to hang on her every word.
History geeks! :rolleyes: Don’t get her started on the ancient Egyptian night court records she once read. Suffice it to say that “Fifty bucks and time served.” has an ancient tradition behind it.
Wow. She sounds kind of like me. I love history, and Henry VIII is one of my favorite historical characters. My poor parents know far better than to ever go near the subject.
[nitpick]And Mary’s children are assumed to have been fathered by Henry VIII. Officially, they are the children of Mary’s husband, William (I think that’s what his name was) Carey.[/nitpick]
Also, if that interests your wife, she may be interested in a historical fiction book called The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory.
That book may be too annoyingly fictional for a true history geek. Don’t ask me how I know. I just do.
We have a pretty good idea how, Caricci! 
But you’re right and as soon as it veered from the path of total veracity I’d hear about it and since she prefers to read with the TV on it would be during a particularly tense and confusing scene in “Lost.”
You and your daughter both sound like great people to hang out with.
To be honest, my wife is the fun one. I only have a personality when I’m drinking.
York all the way…
Didn’t know that about Henry VIII etc. Eek!
The other Boleyn girl was pretty good, though of course Mary just happens to overhear a lot of important action, and they speak modern English, and so on. But what it does do a really good job with is to show what terribly hard work it is to be a royal mistress. Not only do you have to be ready and willing to go to bed whenever he likes, but you have to be fascinating and cheerful and diplomatic and uncomplaining and beautiful and a fashion leader all the time, with everyone. It’s a 24/7 performance. I thought that was the main strength of the novel.
Oh, I dunno – I’m quite fond of “O tiger’s heart wrapt in a woman’s hide!” and “Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so that I will shortly send thy soul to heaven – if heaven will take the present at our hands.” Not to mention the whole wooing scene with Lady Anne
And dropzone’s daughter sounds awesome.