"If anyone can show just cause why this couple cannot lawfully be joined together in matrimony, let them speak now or forever hold their peace!"
The British Anglican version was "cause or just impediment", and when I was a youngster I thought it was "George Augustus Perryman" wondering who the hell he was and what he had to do with it."If anyone can show just cause why this couple cannot lawfully be joined together in matrimony, let them speak now or forever hold their peace!"
It gets another meaning here, at least if you want to leave the ceremony in one piece!
George Augustus Perryman was probably the local landlord, who got the privilege to deflower the bride during the wedding night, before the groom would get her!The British Anglican version was "cause or just impediment", and when I was a youngster I thought it was "George Augustus Perryman" wondering who the hell he was and what he had to do with it.
I! wanted to borrow that book!
Deep down they are quite nice people?A lawyer was being buried and the family specified a grave depth of twenty feet. When asked why, the answer was "Six feet is not deep enough!"
She has not observed the Bodleian Library's Readers' Oath:
A classic one!I am sorry to mention this joke from a German newspaper here (origin unknown) but I simply cannot resist any more and please do not try to imagine of whom Germans are thinking by telling this:
- "Did you hear of the terrible fire in the president's library?"
- "No, what happened?"
- "All his books were destroyed in the fire! Even more terrible, all both were not really finished. The autobiography about his heroic deeds in the army was not yet finished by the ghost writer and in the coloring book, the president did not color all comics yet!"