"Quotes"

Is it OCD or simply his mundane little passion project? (we all kinda have them, right?!)

Funnily enough, I have Big Bird, The Count, and Cookie Monster hand-puppets, and when I was younger and less-disabled, sometimes strolled around the local shopping district, doing their voices and interacting with kids. The good ol' Muppets still seem to be remembered even in this late-stage digital age(!)

Another pastime was to perform the puppets singing songs at our local karaoke night. Not sure how many people remember these songs, but let's take a look at two: (one for Count and one for Cookie)

TV shows sure were different those days...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNuVifA7DSU

It's always nice to enjoy a snack with one's friends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVg4mxMG_1Q

General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, VC, KCB, DSO (born 1870) is a loud-mouthed, childish, unintelligent, incompetent British Army General serving in the First World War. He commands Captain Blackadder's (Rowan Atkinson) unit in the TV series "Blackadder Goes Forth." His aide is Captain Darling (Tim McInnerny). Melchett was played by Stephen Fry.

For further background, see:
https://blackadder.fandom.com/wiki/General_Melchett

And a video clip of Melchett on pooh-pooh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeF1JO7Ki8E

(in fact the whole series is free to watch right on ~~YT~~ DailyMotion, last I checked)

Memories of this quote sprang out of discussion of a certain painting. A painting of the trial and execution of "Lollard" Christian heretics in 1401 AD. It seems Lollardy was a "proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that was active in England from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation." --WP

You know, before Enery the VIII (I am I am) later came along...

NOTE : the picture in the quote graphic oddly seems to depict a cartoonishly massive-eyed Constantine, for whatever reason. Odd, because evidently Marcellinus was not a fan of the man, to put it lightly.

And the painting:
https://piefed.social/post/2163349

I don't have any 'deep-dive' here, just that I've always been impressed by how prescient and progressive this leader seemed to be, considering...

Awesome author:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke