On occasion, Cole would wander the streets with a cow's teat poking through the open fly of his trousers; once he judged he had caused optimum outrage, he would cut off the offending protrusion with a pair of scissors.
There once was a prankster named Horace, who thought the stage play was quite borious. He conspired to seat, those whom’s heads were shaved neat, and reflected a swear off their foreheads.
My favorite part of this is the way you made me pronounce forehead in my head. Like far-eds. I don't know how to spell it out, but it was very Yankee, and that was a treat for my southern brain
According to another story he bought tickets for particular seats at a theatrical performance he considered pretentious and distributed them to eight bald men whose heads, painted with a single letter, spelled out the word "B-O-L-L-O-C-K-S" (another source claims it was four men's heads making the word F-U-C-K), which was legible from the circle and boxes above.
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This legend needs to be remembered.
I'm slow today. My dumb ass over here was trying to figure out who was named Bottomshit.
Lord Bradley Bottomshit kindly asks that you not disparage his family’s name any further.
Lord Bradley Bottomshit, of the Boston Bottomshits?
So it wasn't just a swearword for the sake of it, he wanted the actors to know what he thought of their play 😂
why is there an image of former prime minister of the united kingdom, ramsay macdonald
Pic of standard olde Englishman makes the story more believable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_de_Vere_Cole
Anyone else try to read it as a limerick?
There once was a prankster named Horace,
who thought the stage play was quite borious.
He conspired to seat,
those whom’s heads were shaved neat,
and reflected a swear off their foreheads.
My favorite part of this is the way you made me pronounce forehead in my head. Like far-eds. I don't know how to spell it out, but it was very Yankee, and that was a treat for my southern brain
We should all respect trolls more instead of just banning them.
If they were trolling at this level, I would.
Unfortunately most trolls:
Man this dude was a legend.
Reminds me of this theatre spoiler prank https://youtu.be/VS3RekvYqM8