Showing posts with label Roberto Rossellini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roberto Rossellini. Show all posts

Saturday, June 16, 2018

Clever tie-in to yesterday's post about Catherine of Aragon




Get it?

The first was created by Walt Disney, the second by Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini. The second's full name is Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini Scorsese Wiedemann. The first's, oddly enough, is Ferdinand Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini Scorsese Wiedemann the Bull, or Ferdinand the Bull for short.

Okay, that last sentence may not be true.

More to be pitied than censured, I admit that this post may be not so much clever as irritating.

In the olden days I might have repented in sackcloth and ashes, but fortunately for me, the olden days are...


Irritating, yeah, that's the ticket.

<b>Half-remembered hills</b>

Over in the sidebar to the right, down past the Blog Archive list, is a poem by a Yorkshire lad named Neil Theisby (you might know him as bl...