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Now there is something with a bit of pedantry about it - the lion rampant.

Technically, the claws and tongue are meant to be blue - it's just easier to print with two colours (I think) - there may be some fancy heraldic reason for having blue bits/no blue bits but I think it's just easier to print when it's two colours.

 

but why did key ron post it?

 

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And the 3 lions on the English shirts are actually leopards, or so QI said!

 

nah because it was yer man Richard the Lionheart who came up with the idea was it not?

 

Don't think so, when they first appeared on the coat of arms, people couldn't really tell the difference between the big cats, so to begin with they were all classed as the same or something, any "lion" that is lying down horizontally, is actually a leopard, or what they thought was a leopard. Like I said, it was on QI a while back, I can't remember the exact story.

 

richard the leopardheart then

 

That rolls off the tongue much easier does it not?

 

The Three Leopards were the heraldic symbol of the Plantagenets - who became rulers of England but were originally French.

The Lion Rampant was the Royal Standard of the Bruces before it became particularly Scottish - again, I think it originates from the Bruce family's French connections.

 

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I wish I could say that I meant that, or even noticed it!

 

Richard The Lionheart, Pride of England, was actually a Frenchman born and bred. He only spent 8 months of his life in England.

Just saying.

 

william wallace killed 50 men, 50 as if it were one

 

Wallace was straight though, Richard was a bentshot allegedly.

ps Don't know why I said allegedly, it's not as if his estate is going to sue.

 

You keep failing EDGE

I don't think you have ever commented on Ireland and been right.

What am I jumping ship too?

 

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Was he the one they killed by shoving a red hot poker up his arse as to hide cause of death? **** sake that's got to hurt

 

I think that was a myth - it was meant to be Edward II - the one who got his arse handed to him (and no the way he liked, either) in front of Stirling Castle.

 

who's that in your avatar?

 

Trev licks oot wheelie bins.