Let's be unreasonable

breaking headline -

Post Grave Duke Teases Tea with Intomber


i will go away now...

@the-gravedigger said
Due to economic hardships I only employ a gardener and a cook now.

During the Second World War, the Ministry of Labour went around checking on the big estates, to see if some of the staff could be released for essential war work. At Chatsworth, they interviewed the Duke of Devonshire, and said; "Well Your Grace, we can understand that you need forty-seven gardeners and thirteen under-gardeners and you need grooms and you need chauffeurs and you need upstairs maids and downstairs maids and in between maids and laundry room maids, and still room maids and kitchen maids and nursemaids and housemaids and parlour maids. And we can understand that you need the boy to scrape the knives and boots and you need the butler and the four footmen and the under-butler. But we wonder if a man economy might be made, do you, does Your Grace necessarily need two pastry cooks?"

To which he apparently replied; "Oh damn it! Can't a man have a biscuit?"


(Courtesy of QI).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
During the Second World War, the Ministry of Labour went around checking on the big estates, to see if some of the staff could be released for essential war work. At Chatsworth, they interviewed the Duke of Devonshire, and said; "Well Your Grace, we can understand that you need forty-seven gardeners and thirteen under-gardeners and you need grooms and you need chauffe ...[text shortened]...

To which he apparently replied; "Oh damn it! Can't a man have a biscuit?"


(Courtesy of QI).

LOL....Funny story goad!

-VR

@ghost-of-a-duke said
During the Second World War, the Ministry of Labour went around checking on the big estates, to see if some of the staff could be released for essential war work. At Chatsworth, they interviewed the Duke of Devonshire, and said; "Well Your Grace, we can understand that you need forty-seven gardeners and thirteen under-gardeners and you need grooms and you need chauffe ...[text shortened]...

To which he apparently replied; "Oh damn it! Can't a man have a biscuit?"


(Courtesy of QI).

That's brilliant !

@the-gravedigger said
That's brilliant !

At least funny!!! No need exaggerating. 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
At least funny!!! No need exaggerating. 😉

-VR

You are today's lucky winner of a toaster oven and a basket of citrus!

@ghost-of-a-duke said
During the Second World War, the Ministry of Labour went around checking on the big estates, to see if some of the staff could be released for essential war work. At Chatsworth, they interviewed the Duke of Devonshire, and said;
(Courtesy of QI).

YouTube

The story starts a minute in.

@wolfgang59 said
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The story starts a minute in.

Splendid! Well done sir. (Makes me laugh every time).

@caesar-salad said
You are today's lucky winner of a toaster oven and a basket of citrus!

I'll pass, but thanks anyways! 😉

-VR

@rookie54 said

i will go away now...

Please don't, since it would be reasonable to do so.

Have a biscuit.

@ponderable said

Have a biscuit.

Sounds like a very unreasonable thing to do.

-VR

Unreasonable? There are only reasonable people in these forums.

@shallow-blue said
Unreasonable? There are only reasonable people in these forums.

Could you point them out, I seem to have missed them?

-VR

@everybody

Unreasonable is as unreasonable does...…….

@leur said
@everybody

Unreasonable is as unreasonable does...…….

I believe that is the most unreasonable statement to date! 😉

-VR