Explain the AH Quote

[Bughuntertf]

"Disgusting himself as a Tibetan and running up and down the Himalayas... Such behavior for a king!"

Such was the astonishing and unlikely reputation of "King" Elizabeth the 1st. Her many idiosyncrasies have become well-known - her penchant for dressing in men's clothing, her support for progressive causes (including, bizarrely, calling for "my own abolition"), and of course disguising herself as a Tibetan and adventuring to the Himalayan, performing a stunning impersonation that fooled actual Tibetans, leading her to become the first world leader to ever scale Mt. Everest. (With the curious historical result that those who want to be world leaders have now adopted the practice of climbing Mt. Everest. See: Gore Vidal's still jawdropping [in the quiddity of its peculiarity] 1988 campaign for President.)

It is with this unlikely background that Stephen Fry spoke in one of the most famous sketches of the fifth series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which itself nearly wasn't written or made due to other circumstances) the above quote. "Himself" an amusing reference to the Queen's independence (and a joke on patriarchal ideas about women and their places in society), "as a Tibetan" of course is simply historically accurate, while "running up and down the Himalayas" continues the joke of the patriarchal character Fry performs as in the sketch (a conservative political commentator believed to be modeled off of Margaret Thatcher who [of course] is well-known for her unique blend of opinions she regularly presents on ITV) by diminishing the scope of the accomplishment that climbing Mt. Everest entails, and finally, the line that truly sold it, "Such behavior for a king!" the natural conclusion of all that came before, satirizing all that came before and of course poking at once again at the Queen's many idiosyncrasies by referring to her as "a king."

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"You see those? Those are ants! And they're getting smarter!"

 

[Bookmark1995]

Such was the astonishing and unlikely reputation of "King" Elizabeth the 1st. Her many idiosyncrasies have become well-known - her penchant for dressing in men's clothing, her support for progressive causes (including, bizarrely, calling for "my own abolition"), and of course disguising herself as a Tibetan and adventuring to the Himalayan, performing a stunning impersonation that fooled actual Tibetans, leading her to become the first world leader to ever scale Mt. Everest. (With the curious historical result that those who want to be world leaders have now adopted the practice of climbing Mt. Everest. See: Gore Vidal's still jawdropping [in the quiddity of its peculiarity] 1988 campaign for President.)

It is with this unlikely background that Stephen Fry spoke in one of the most famous sketches of the fifth series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie (which itself nearly wasn't written or made due to other circumstances) the above quote. "Himself" an amusing reference to the Queen's independence (and a joke on patriarchal ideas about women and their places in society), "as a Tibetan" of course is simply historically accurate, while "running up and down the Himalayas" continues the joke of the patriarchal character Fry performs as in the sketch (a conservative political commentator believed to be modeled off of Margaret Thatcher who [of course] is well-known for her unique blend of opinions she regularly presents on ITV) by diminishing the scope of the accomplishment that climbing Mt. Everest entails, and finally, the line that truly sold it, "Such behavior for a king!" the natural conclusion of all that came before, satirizing all that came before and of course poking at once again at the Queen's many idiosyncrasies by referring to her as "a king."

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"You see those? Those are ants! And they're getting smarter!"

Excerpt from "Ant Attack", a 1992 sci-fi comedy starring Rick Moranis as a scientist who accidentally creates a hive of ants that develop human intelligence, but must use streets smarts to outsmart them when they being to plot world domination.

"Who needs Dachau when you have Birmingham."

 

[The Militant Doberman]

"Who needs Dachau when you have Birmingham."

Quote from a controversial 2017 Israeli political comedy skit. In the short skit set during WW2 a German scientist creates a time machine that transports a Nazi officer to Birmingham, UK in the “distant future” year of 2017.

Tasked with gathering vital intelligence from the future that can help Germany win the war against “Global Bolshevik Jewery”, the officer witnesses blatant acts of anti-Semitism from the city’s immigrant population and the local Labour Party. Gaining an audience with one of the city’s Labour politicians the Nazi asks where are all of UK’s Jewish concentration camps to which the caricature-politician replies “Who needs Dachau [concentration camp] when you have Birmingham? We don’t need to bother hunting them down and sending them off on trains — they flee faster on their own than they can shout “Oy vey”!”

Holy sh*t! Saddam has a secret Moon Base?! Why didn’t you say so earlier? That’s a much better justification for invading Iraq than pretending that Baghdad is hiding a chemical weapons program.

 

[riskyrofl]

Quote from a controversial 2017 Israeli political comedy skit. In the short skit set during WW2 a German scientist creates a time machine that transports a Nazi officer to Birmingham, UK in the “distant future” year of 2017.

Tasked with gathering vital intelligence from the future that can help Germany win the war against “Global Bolshevik Jewery”, the officer witnesses blatant acts of anti-Semitism from the city’s immigrant population and the local Labour Party. Gaining an audience with one of the city’s Labour politicians the Nazi asks where are all of UK’s Jewish concentration camps to which the caricature-politician replies “Who needs Dachau [concentration camp] when you have Birmingham? We don’t need to bother hunting them down and sending them off on trains — they flee faster on their own than they can shout “Oy vey”!”

Holy sh*t! Saddam has a secret Moon Base?! Why didn’t you say so earlier? That’s a much better justification for invading Iraq than pretending that Baghdad is hiding a chemical weapons program.

Dave Chappelle in the Black Bush skit of his black market, underground skit comedy show, "The Dave Chappelle Show". Chappelle plays a satirical, marijuana using representation of President George Bush during the Civic-Military Dictatorship era. While never broadcast or distributed through legal means Chapelle's show, distributed through videotape and DVDs through the black market, would be massively popular, especially among youths, leftists and African Americans. It's popularity meant it was seen as a significant threat by the regime and so efforts were made to wipe out any trace of The Dave Chappelle show. Even after Chappelle was found in hiding Mexico, captured, and executed on charges of promoting anti-Americanism, Communism, degeneracy and Islamism, the popularity and distribution of the show would not stop and only grew more popular, until the end of the regime and return of democracy in the United States.

"Can we get rid of this Ayatollah T-shirt? Khomeini died years ago."

 

[Glide08]

"Can we get rid of this Ayatollah T-shirt? Khomeini died years ago."

A quote from the 1998 dramedy "Death of a Metalhead" - the main character is a fan of the band Ayatollah, whose frontman - George "Khomeini" MacGuinees - has died (in-universe) ten years before the movie's events.

"There's a vast conspiracy to control the world which can only be foiled if we burn all business cards!"

 

[Tales Weaver]

"There's a vast conspiracy to control the world which can only be foiled if we burn all business cards!"

The caption from a political cartoon from 1995. When a congressman pushed for a bill which would do a major restructuring.

"The times, that change the world forever.. Could someone stop it?"

 

[Mina-van-Mako]

The caption from a political cartoon from 1995. When a congressman pushed for a bill which would do a major restructuring.

"The times, that change the world forever. Could someone stop it?"

Maria-Margareta I of Romania, who inherited from the Crown after most of the Royal Family was executed by the Red Army invading Romania in 1947. The Queen chose to hide in the "Institutul Regal de Fizică Nucleară și Quantum" studying Quantum Physics and Nuclear Physics. After realizing he couldn't probably resist forever, she asked the different scientists if she could travel back in time, or at least stop time for a short period so that she can change the course of the war. The answer from the scientists is that stopping time would involove stopping chemical reactions and therefore lead the Queen to death, and time travel was risky. She refused to use a dirty bomb, because it would hurt innocent Romanians and not the Red Army, so her last resort was experimentations on time travel.

At least it's what she says, in june 1946, in the sanatorium of Cluj, after her extended family, the Royal family, heard about the story she was telling. The King still used her testimony as a reason to join a defensive pact with Western Europe and build fortifications on the Soviet-Romanian boundary. The line is nicknamed "Maria-Margareta Line" after this story.




"The Pu Yi Clique is going to enter the capital, Generalissimo, do you want to negociate ?"
Mao Zedong

 

[CountDVB]

"The Pu Yi Clique is going to enter the capital, Generalissimo, do you want to negociate ?"
Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong of the Communist Forces negotiating with bitter rival Chiang Kai-Shek over dealing with the warlords having uniting under the Pu Yi Clique to restory the monarchy to China. The two untied to try and beat back the Pu Yi clique, but while winning, both commanders were killed. The Chinese Democratic League ended up founding a new parliamentary government of sorts, with the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party coming out on top. Their rapid influence over the Pacific meant the COld War devolved into a three-sided global quasi-conflict, espeically as China poured money to help stablize the United Provinces of Bharat while also influencing certain African nations. Despite this, they are on good relations with the USA, especially with the fall of the USSR and the rise of the People's Reform party.

"Your Holiness, our alliance with the Persians have paid off! The Ottomans are almost defeated!"

 

[SwordLord]

"Your Holiness, our alliance with the Persians have paid off! The Ottomans are almost defeated!"

An unknown courtier to Basileus Constantius in 1453, recorded in Isaac's biography of Constantius. The Roman Empire had driven the Ottomans from Europe nearly a century before, and the Ottomans turned their attention East and South. The Egyptians lost the Levant, and Persia didn't seem to be doing well, but a great general rose in Fars, and he would drive the Turks out of Iran. He would then forge and anti-Ottoman alliance with the Mamluks. Egypt would collapse into civl war though, and so he sought a new Alliance with Constantinople. Through this alliance, much of western Anatolia and the Pontic coast would be restored to Roman hands, and the Levant would become part of the new Persian Empire. This alliance is largely credited for the survival of the Roman Empire into the modern day. As for the Persian Empire, a resurgent Egypt would eventually drive them back into Iran, and unify the Arabians 2 centuries later.

"You see class, Spain and Brythonica have quite similiar histories, both would mostly fall to foreign invaders. Then the Spanish, under the Leonese kings, would launch their reconquista, and unite Hispania under one crown and cross. Likewise, in Brythonica, the descendants of Rhodri the Great would use the conflict between the Angles and Vikings, and later the Scottish, to expand, until on the day of Remberance, the Britons broke through the walls of Canterbury and brought and end to the Germanic period of the Isles."

 

[CountDVB]

"You see class, Spain and Brythonica have quite similiar histories, both would mostly fall to foreign invaders. Then the Spanish, under the Leonese kings, would launch their reconquista, and unite Hispania under one crown and cross. Likewise, in Brythonica, the descendants of Rhodri the Great would use the conflict between the Angles and Vikings, and later the Scottish, to expand, until on the day of Remberance, the Britons broke through the walls of Canterbury and brought and end to the Germanic period of the Isles."

A teacher setting the backstory for why Brythonica and Spain would be doomed to war. While both dealt with foreign invaders, Brythonica maintained most of their cultural influence as Celts while the Spanish had been very much latinized by ancient Rome. The abuse of the Celtic groups of Spain would lead to conflict. A conflict only resolved when New Gaul, a successor state of the old Gaul after a cultural revolution consumed Frankish influence, came in on behalf of Brythonica to assist them. Spain is not fracturing under the various minorities, such as the Muslim Andalusians, the Portuguese (who converted to Protestantism out of defiance), the Visigoth minority (protecting an Orthodox Church) among other.) As such, Spanish has had to rely on mercernaries from the Three "Germanies", Osterland (a Catholic German state), Westphalia (a Protestant German state) and Gothia (an Eastern Orthodox German state).

"The Crimean Goths seek to reclaim their ancestral homeland in Prussia! This is our opportunity to beat them and prevent German unification!"

 

[ThatOneGuy]

"The Crimean Goths seek to reclaim their ancestral homeland in Prussia! This is our opportunity to beat them and prevent German unification!"

Quote by Publius Severus Julius, grandson of Imperator Julius Caesar and governor of the Germanian province which stretched from the Rhine to the Elbe. The Crimean Goths, after hearing of the pacification of Germania after the brutal Battle of the Rhine decided to take up the cause of anti-Roman resistance in Germania where the previous chief, Arminius, had failed. So under an unnamed war chief the entire tribe of nearly 300,000 people packed up their belongings and began to make their way towards Roman Germania obstensibly to settle within Rome's borders but really to stir up anti-Roman sentiment. On their way north-west the tribes managed to gain a few valuable allies in other Gothic tribes eventually bringing the number of migratory Goths to around 389,000 people. When the tribe reached Rome's borders they were met by Publius Julius at the head of five legions who informed them that their request to settle in Germania had been denied by the Senate (in reality the Senate had never been informed of the Goths request). This was not wholly unexpected so the Goths rested for three days before drawing up battle lines.

The Battle for Germania is described by modern historians as 'truly apocolyptic' in his scale. It lasted for two whole months of near daily fighting between the two with it sometimes being just skirmishes of a few hundred troops in total, to battles when the Legions attacked the Gothic camp. In the end however Julius would emerge victorious, but only just barely after losing three and a half legions in their entirety to the Gothic attacks. The Goths were completely and utterly defeated by the Battle and with their war chief dead, they dispersed into the countryside. Never again would a single Gothic tribe ever pose such a threat to the Roman world and never again would Roman hegemony over Germania be challenged in such a way. Using his victory as leverage Julius would use his legion and a half to emulate his grandfather and march on Rome to usurp the Brutian dynasty.

"America was Built on Slavery and as such the 'Peculiar Institution' must never be challenged!" - Abraham Lincoln

 

[H.Flashman(VC)]

"America was Built on Slavery and as such the 'Peculiar Institution' must never be challenged!" - Abraham Lincoln

Governor Abraham Lincoln of Missouri was born in 1809. In 1816 his father Thomas Lincoln moved with his family from Kentucky to Howard country Missouri, where he after many years of labor had set up a middle large tobacco plantation. At the age of 22 Abraham moved to St Louis, had several jobs before he started a career as hunter of fugitive slaves. He was extremely succesfull in this endeavor and he gained a lot of connections with some of the largest plantageowners of Missouri and also other southern states. They nicknamed him "Honest Abe" for his strict enforcement of the law. He always looked into the validity of the ownership and never took a captive in a state where local law forbade it. After 7 years in the job he ran for the Missourian house of representatives as a Democrat and got elected in 1838 and 1840. In 1846 he was elected in the United States house of representatives and got noted for his staunch defence of the Mexican-American War. After his term ended he returned to St-Louis and set up a detective agency specialised in finding run away slaves. He extended his activities to the free states after the Fugitive slave law of 1850. In 1853 Lincoln tracked down a fugitive slave named Joshua Glover in Racine Wisconsin. After capturing and taking him to a Milwaukee jail an abolistional group liberated Joshua and brought him to safety in Canada. At the subsequent trial Lincoln was called as a witness. From the witnesstand he held a speech starting with the afformented quote, where he defended the legality of the 1850 fugitive law. The Wisconsin supreme court under C.H. Larrabee convicted several persons for the breakout, including Sherman Booth. This caused an uproar amongst northern abolisionists, but Lincoln was welcomed as a hero in his homestate Missouri. In the gubernatorial elections in 1857 he consequentially defeated his opponent with ease.

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" William of Orange 1584

 

[Aurantiacis]

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" William of Orange 1584

The Spanish Inquisition, otherwise known as the Episcopal Inquisition of Iberia, was a counter-reformation following the Protestant Revolution, and one that was quite surprising. This extrajudicial extermination of the Catholics by the "New" Bishoprics in Navarre and Aragonia turned the tides in the Spanish religious communities, and where religion became a lingering question of the monarchs that would come years later, where thousands of immigrants of not only Catholic descent but of Moorish and Jewish fled to nearby Morocco, and crypto-devotions ran wild. This is one of the most confusing topics to date, with questions such as "Why did the government not stop them" and "Why didn't foreign intervention come until much later", even "Who did it" was asked until the evidence was uncovered in the 1700s. As it went as quickly as it came, historians are left with scratched heads, and as William the Orange commented, this event was truly unexpected.

"We need the land in that continent, not just Maryland-in-Africa, you understand? We need the United States to be a superpower, after all." -Andrew Johnson

 

[Meshakhad]

The Spanish Inquisition, otherwise known as the Episcopal Inquisition of Iberia, was a counter-reformation following the Protestant Revolution, and one that was quite surprising. This extrajudicial extermination of the Catholics by the "New" Bishoprics in Navarre and Aragonia turned the tides in the Spanish religious communities, and where religion became a lingering question of the monarchs that would come years later, where thousands of immigrants of not only Catholic descent but of Moorish and Jewish fled to nearby Morocco, and crypto-devotions ran wild. This is one of the most confusing topics to date, with questions such as "Why did the government not stop them" and "Why didn't foreign intervention come until much later", even "Who did it" was asked until the evidence was uncovered in the 1700s. As it went as quickly as it came, historians are left with scratched heads, and as William the Orange commented, this event was truly unexpected.

"We need the land in that continent, not just Maryland-in-Africa, you understand? We need the United States to be a superpower, after all." -Andrew Johnson

President Johnson in his landmark speech announcing the American annexation of the Congo. What followed was a decades-long campaign to "civilize" the Congo, one that saw a major industrial center established in Africa, and ultimately the creation of the Congo Republic, one of the most powerful nations in Africa... at the cost of thousands of African lives and the erasure of much of the native Congolese culture.

"Venice. A name that if it appears in the opening scene of an action movie, tells you some shit is about to go down!" - John Oliver

 

[Tales Weaver]

"Venice. A name that if it appears in the opening scene of an action movie, tells you some shit is about to go down!" - John Oliver

Movie director john Oliver, after filming his hit movie, "ON darker times" this movie popularized Venice for action movie locations. the scenes were done in CGI, so it was okay. this made Venice more larger with new town being built north. this turned the old city of water into a virtual slums.

Dearest Luna, you did well to... to deliver the Ring to Noctis. Wayward though my son may indeed be... He has made me proud. May you two know happiness."

 

[CountDVB]

Dearest Luna, you did well to... to deliver the Ring to Noctis. Wayward though my son may indeed be... He has made me proud. May you two know happiness."

One of the lines from the Gothic national epic detailing the founding of Gothia. Noctis was the crown prince of the Gothic diaspora, consisting of primarily Crimean Goths among others who fled to Prussia. He would get engaged to Luna, one of the princesses. The Ring in turn is an artifact from Constantinople and represents the Theodoran particharate's rule. His father passes the ring to him, symbolizing both his approval of his radical reformist son's legacy and his marriage to Luna, thus cementing his rule over the land formerly known as Prussia after the defeat of the Teutonic Knights. Thus is the establishment of Gothia, the Konigsberg Patriarchate, and the return of the Eastern Orthodox influence in Western Europe, most notable in Ireland.

"In the same way the United States and China have their brotherhood, let Mexico form a brotherhood with Bharat!"

 

[riskyrofl]

[QUOTDVB, post: 17799269, member: 105812"]One of the lines from the Gothic national epic detailing the founding of Gothia. Noctis was the crown prince of the Gothic diaspora, consisting of primarily Crimean Goths among others who fled to Prussia. He would get engaged to Luna, one of the princesses. The Ring in turn is an artifact from Constantinople and represents the Theodoran particharate's rule. His father passes the ring to him, symbolizing both his approval of his radical reformist son's legacy and his marriage to Luna, thus cementing his rule over the land formerly known as Prussia after the defeat of the Teutonic Knights. Thus is the establishment of Gothia, the Konigsberg Patriarchate, and the return of the Eastern Orthodox influence in Western Europe, most notable in Ireland.

"In the same way the United States and China have their brotherhood, let Mexico form a brotherhood with Bharat!"[/QUOTE]

Imperial Mexican Football Association President Luis Moreno in his meeting with the Bharati Football Federation in 1983. With the success of so called "McDonalds Generation" of Chinese players, such Zhang Lu and Wu Lei, developed from young ages by American clubs, seeing the Chinese national team achieve success never seen before by China while American clubs dominated the Americas with the help of Chinese born prodigies. Both driven by a desire to end their rivals reigns of dominance and encouragment by respective governments to unite two 4th World Allies, Mexico and Bharat would form a similiar agreement and in the following decade it saw the rise of what is known as "the Emperor's Generation" of Bharati players such as Anil Khan, Vasu Binu and Vikram Pappachan. Bharat not only ended Chinese football dominance in Asia but achieved what there rivals had not, winning a World Cup with there 1998 victory. Likewise, Mexican clubs saw a new golden era in the 90s (which of course can not be attributed solely to the influx of Bharati players, with new television rights deals and a new generation of great Mexican managers), with Real Guadalajara winning 3 consecutive American Cups between 1994-1996 and Club América's 4 American Cup wins in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1999 as well as finals appearances in 1995 and 1997.

"I've always been loyal to Stalin, always. The arrests were authorized by Stalin but Stalin was also loyal to the collective leadership and that is true loyalty. However, he also had an iron will, undeviating, strong, could we not do the same and stick to what we believed in? No. It is stronger still to forge our own beliefs within the beliefs of the collective leadership, which I have now... done."

 

[Kerguelen]

"I've always been loyal to Stalin, always. The arrests were authorized by Stalin but Stalin was also loyal to the collective leadership and that is true loyalty. However, he also had an iron will, undeviating, strong, could we not do the same and stick to what we believed in? No. It is stronger still to forge our own beliefs within the beliefs of the collective leadership, which I have now... done."

Following the Crimean Missile Crisis and the fall of Bejing, Soviet leader Lavrenity Beria oversaw rising tensions between the Soviet Union and the Atlantic Pact. Beria's policy of building economic ties between foregin enemies was seen as unpopular in the eyes of many causing some to accuse him of being unloyal the memory of the matyred Josef Stalin During a private arguement with his fellow cabinet members, he spoke agaist his claims by citing his loyalty during the Patriotic War and his continued support within the collective leadership.

"The President's treason is a crime against the nation, it's people, and all those who fight for a free world. Due to recent developments, I will be assuming temporary command of the army to arrest the criminals in the White House and Oval Office. Thank you for your attention and god bless America."

 

[CountDVB]

"The President's treason is a crime against the nation, it's people, and all those who fight for a free world. Due to recent developments, I will be assuming temporary command of the army to arrest the criminals in the White House and Oval Office. Thank you for your attention and god bless America."

A statement from General Eisenhower over the revelations that the-then president, Charles Lindbergh, had been colloberating with the Nazis after the US's entry into WW2. The massive rampant corruption had forced Eisenhower to ally with several various socialist groups and politicians to stop Lindbergh and his supporters. Known as the Second American Revolution, the Lindbergh administration would be ousted and be the beginning of a purge of various reactionary movements and forces in the USA. including the KKK among various others. This led to the socialist party of America to sweep the Senate and House with Norman Thomas voted as President and W.E.B. Du Bois as Vice President. hey instituted massive reforms before having Eisnhower and the others go to end the Nazi menace once and for all. Eisenhower would end up becoming president after Norman Thomas left office and later supporter Du Bois in his presidential run.

"The peoples of the Tatar have united not under Islam, but under the Orthodox Church!"

 

[SealTheRealDeal]

"The peoples of the Tatar have united not under Islam, but under the Orthodox Church!"

Tokhtogha of the Golden horde rebuking Mahmud Ghazan's decision to "cower to local demands" thereby threatening the unity of the Mongol Empire. The written rebuke foreshadowed the century of war between the the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate which commenced upon the collapse of the Mongol Empire in the 1300s.

"His holiness even ventured to grant a Roman Triumph to Timur's emissaries. Perhaps there is still some hope for the misfortunate Christians of the Levante."