Recte:
Leo, PLEASE CALM DOWN.
You PREVIOUSLY said:
There is no such thing as a stupid question.
NOW you are saying:
Of course, there are the obviously stupid questions...
Quite obviously you CONTRADICT yourself.
He uses a false name "Holy Pasha" and OBVIOUSLY has access to the
Internet.
He does not NEED to go to a LIBRARY.
He could have Googled for it and quickly found out Matilda was previously
married to Kaiser Heinrich V -- who died young, at 44 in 1125, and who was
childless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Matildahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V,_H ... an_EmperorBut he was LAZY and wanted someone else to spoon-feed him.
He asked these questions:
why Empress Matilda ?
was she a real Empress ?
Those were TRULY STUPID QUESTIONS.
Yes, Virginia, there ARE Stupid Questions. Even Leo van de Pas says so.
See above. <G
Eschew Them With Vigor.
Case Closed.
Such pogues and poguettes do indeed deserve a shot across the bow and a
good, hard virtual slap across the face.
Creative Ridicule and Excoriation, such as we see from Kevin McCabe,
infra, are also an entirely appropriate and useful treatment for such
lazy ragamuffins, laggards and blaggards.
'Nuff Said.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Me ke aloha pumehana, Leo.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vide infra
"Leo van de Pas" <leovdpas@netspeed.com.au> wrote in message
news:mailman.3098.1171153129.30800.gen-medieval@rootsweb.com...
Of course, there are the obviously stupid questions, but I do not regard
this one to be. Matilda is often quoted as the daughter of her father and
as the wife of her second husband.......the first one is hardly ever
mentioned because too many people are one-eyed, anything across the pond
is of no interest. At least this person realised there was more at foot,
but then to be ridiculed is dreadful..
More at HAND? -- DSH
Slothful and lazy? How can others make that observation when the person
asking is unknown? How do we know, as has been shown up in the past,
there
are people in wheelchairs unable to enter libraries, or people living
many
miles away from the nearest library.
That's ANOTHER Common Excuse some of these anonymous PFK pogues make.
They
are ALREADY ON the Internet and need NOT depend on Libraries for this
SIMPLE
BIOGRAPHICAL Information. Even WIKIPEDIA has it. -- DSH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Matildahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V,_H ... an_EmperorAs Douglas Richardson often has said, we are here to make friends and be
helpful, not sit in judgement without all facts known to the person
jumping to conclusions.
With best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com
Newsgroups: alt.history.british, soc.culture.irish,
soc.culture.scottish,soc.genealogy.medieval, soc.history.medieval
To: <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: Plantagenet Ancestry
No, Leo...
With Respect...
There ARE indeed stupid questions.
They are often asked by people who are slothful and lazy and who do not
want to do the most BASIC GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH.
Their risible excuses, when they are CANDID, often run along the
FOLLOWING lines:
1. "I have a very busy life outside USENET and I don't have time to do
research."
2. "It's much faster just to ask someone, rather than look it up."
3. "I didn't know where to look."
In this most recent case, Pogue 'Holy Pasha' [no doubt some Pimply-Faced
Kid (PFK)], was spoon-fed the full particulars on Matilda, which I
provided in my post, and said PFK could easily have Googled for the
answer to his question.
Matilda insisted on being called _Empress Matilda_, thereby mightily
angering the English who rejected her as their monarch and chose Stephen
instead -- but later accepted her son, [after a Civil War and Stephen's
death in 1154], who became the Great English Monarch, Great-Grandfather
Henry II 'Curtmantle' <G>]
Continuing with these risible excuses often proffered:
4. "I'm not SO interested in an answer that I want to take MY time to
look it up."
Such pogues and poguettes do indeed deserve a shot across the bow and a
good, hard virtual slap across the face.
Creative Ridicule and Excoriation, such as we see from Kevin McCabe,
infra, are also an entirely appropriate and useful treatment for such
lazy ragamuffins, laggards and blaggards.
'Nuff Said.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
"Leo van de Pas" <leovdpas@netspeed.com.au> wrote in message
news:mailman.3088.1171142625.30800.gen-medieval@rootsweb.com...
There is no such thing as a stupid question. If the person knew he/she
wouldn't ask. However there is a stupid or nasty answer.
Empress Matilda, her first husband was Heinrich V, Holy Roman Emperor.
With best wishes
Leo van de Pas
Canberra, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: <kevinmccabe@yahoo.com
Newsgroups: alt.history.british, soc.culture.irish,
soc.culture.scottish,soc.genealogy.medieval, soc.history.medieval
To: <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: Plantagenet Ancestry
On Feb 10, 3:37 am, "Holy Pasha" <Moonyon...@gmail.com> wrote:
why Empress Matilda ?
was she a real Empress ?
Of course, its herself that the famous waltz is named for.
of which Empire ? Holy Roman ?
Australian. Do try and keep up.
McCabe
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