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[kirk wallace]

It's Good be a Lord: These Folks Drink Champagne

Sharon, are you and I eligible to stand in the next election?

 

[kirk wallace]

wait, i take it back. 5 bottles per Lord per year is way infra dig. per fortnight would be more like it.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Hilarious. And I fully agree.

Wonder which champagnes they're drinking....

 

[John McIlwain]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Hilarious. And I fully agree.

Wonder which champagnes they're drinking....

Can't imagine it's too interesting at around $27 at bottle.

 

[kirk wallace]

But then what are the poor mps in commons drinking? And does Parliament get exempted from UK taxes?

 

[John McIlwain]

originally posted by kirk wallace:
But then what are the poor mps in commons drinking? And does Parliament get exempted from UK taxes?

I shudder to think.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Let's remember that this is what they are drinking during their working day while they are in session. I'm sure they have their own cellars at home. I don't know how long Lords is in session since they don't have much to do, but I'll bet it's an impressive number of bottles per working hour, if working is what you call it.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

That's rich.

 

[kirk wallace]

According to Wikipedia, there are 791 active Lords. They get no salary, but expenses are covered. I can't see how many days the HoL is in session.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by kirk wallace:
They get no salary, but expenses are covered.

Imagine if they were drinking C. Bouchard....

 

[kirk wallace]

There isn't enough for the fans, as it is.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by kirk wallace:
According to Wikipedia, there are 791 active Lords. They get no salary, but expenses are covered. I can't see how many days the HoL is in session.

149 days, they say.

 

[kirk wallace]

yeah, so even the Thursday evening happy hour at the lords would exhaust the champagne budget. Wonder what the cognac budget is.

 

[David Erickson]

Drunk as a Lord.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

originally posted by David Erickson:
Drunk as a Lord.

Weird that they quote Dostoyevksy. I'd put a couple of nickels on he didn't write that in English.

Or in 2004.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Sharon Bowman:

originally posted by David Erickson:
Drunk as a Lord.

Weird that they quote Dostoyevksy. I'd put a couple of nickels on he didn't write that in English.

Or in 2004.

Yes, it's surely from some recent translation. But the expression is also much older than their earliest date. I just read it today in a Trollope novel from the 1880s and, in context, the phrase was already proverbial. And now that I think about it, there's another incidence in a Purcell opera, which pushes the date back to the second half of the 17th century.