Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blogge!

Also via GeekPress, we discover the Literarye Finde of ye Centurye:  Geoffrey Chaucer is blogging.

For example, he waxes poetic on his discovery of internet abbreviations:

Oh newfanglenesse! Y have learned the privitees of the manye abbreviaciouns ywritten on the internette. OMG: "oh mine ++DOMINUS++". ROFL: "rollinge on the floore laughinge". IRL: "in reale lyfe." WTF: "whatte the swyve?"

Beinge somethinge of an innovator myselfe, Y presente to yow, churles and gentils alle, the followynge abbreviaciouns. May they serven yow welle in your internette communicacioun:

GP: gentil person

WC: woole customes

XC: Exchequer

BATJG: biggere arsehole thanne john gowere

BSL!: by seinte loy!

OTPBRB: Offe to parliamente, be ryghte back

KRBMA: Kynge Richarde II buggynge me againe

AOMSHJDOTBD: anothere of myne servauntes hath just dyede of the blacke death

EISBYMIWATCHDNSTHD: eftsoon I shall be ycleped mad if worke atte the customes house doth not settle the helle downe

Even funnier is his list of the top ten internet searches on his network.

Comments

[Individ]

Arsole is an interesting molecule. I am going to post on it soon.

[Phoenix]

Ha. Ha. Ha. Another of my servants has died of the Black death. hahaha.

Very funny.

Chaucer was hilarious. Very nasty, too. Only two of his Canterbury Tales are allowed in public school textbooks...... out of the 29 he managed to write!

[Phoenix]

His Internet search was funny! Comments are funny, too. I tried to comment, but I had to sign up at some dorky looking place.

Whal, whin in Aprul an too moch rayne falls
An drowns thee roots an all whin March es dun
The vaynes ar sotted in whiskey of sich pauer
As braings abowt the genderment 'o thee flauer.

um... hmm. I think that's the Redneck version.

[Obi-Wan]

Heh. I wonder if the SC redneck version would involve moonshine or Budweiser?

[Obi-Wan]

When I was a high-school junior--in 1972--I had to give an oral report on The Miller's Tale. Needless to say, I had to tell the story without actually explicitly describing some of the characters', um, activities.

I very nearly gave the teacher a heart attack (hey, it was her own fault for assigning it to me!), and the class was rolling with laughter as I used various euphemisms and such.

[Phoenix]

They don't allow The Miller's Tale anymore. Censured.

They only allow The Pardoner's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale.

[Obi-Wan]

Who doesn't allow it? You mean public schools?