#british humour
Aren’t you?
Brilliant punchline of this sketch (from 06:08).
It can easily be misheard, like:
“I’m not as screwed as this in real life, you know.”
Which is quite relevant, but pretty inaccurate.
Gilbert Abbott À Beckett (1811-1856) was an English journalist and playwright who wrote for the Illustrated London News andPunch, the latter being a weekly humor and satire magazine. His Comic History of Rome was illustrated by John Leech, another employee of Punch.
This frontispiece shows a shepherd, who is surprised to find Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome, and Remus, his twin brother, with their adoptive wolf mother. The other photos show historiated initials, which begin each chapter. These initials show a puppet in the shape of an ‘R’, Brutus with the letter ‘B’, and Asclepius, the ancient Greek god of medicine, with the letter ‘I’.
Images from:
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of Rome. [London]: Bradbury and Evans, and Co. …, [1852?]
Call Number: DG210 .A12 1852
Catalog Record: https://bit.ly/32i7ZCS
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