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can anyone help me find some interesting facts about the name william, i.e famous wiliams, songs with william in title, other things called william, maybe cartoons or characters in books? im doing a christening present. got the obvious will shakespeare, sweet william, but some off the wall stuff?
can anyone help me find some interesting facts about the name william, i.e famous wiliams, songs with william in title, other things called william, maybe cartoons or characters in books? im doing a christening present. got the obvious will shakespeare, sweet william, but some off the wall stuff?
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Groundskeeper Willy from The Simpsons
William Wallace - Braveheart
Mr. Shatner - Star Trek
The William Tell Overture
John Williams - composed The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
there's a 'famous Williams' crossword here ... you could print it for when he's old enough ... http://www.leraconteur.scriptmania.com/oldcros s38.htm
William Wallace - Braveheart
Mr. Shatner - Star Trek
The William Tell Overture
John Williams - composed The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
there's a 'famous Williams' crossword here ... you could print it for when he's old enough ... http://www.leraconteur.scriptmania.com/oldcros s38.htm
William Horace De Vere Cole (1881-1936)
Apparently his pranks are legendary, the most well-known being the Dreadnought hoax in 1910 in which Cole and five of his friends (including a young Virginia Woolf) disguised themselves as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage, and were given a full VIP tour of the British warship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.
Members of the British Navy came out in full colours to receive their distinguished guests, who were dressed in costumes, with dyed skin and hair, and speaking an invented language!
The hoax is referred to as the '' Bunga-Bunga Affair '' as reference to the invented Abyssinian dialect the hoaxers used while on the ship.
Apparently his pranks are legendary, the most well-known being the Dreadnought hoax in 1910 in which Cole and five of his friends (including a young Virginia Woolf) disguised themselves as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage, and were given a full VIP tour of the British warship, the H.M.S. Dreadnought.
Members of the British Navy came out in full colours to receive their distinguished guests, who were dressed in costumes, with dyed skin and hair, and speaking an invented language!
The hoax is referred to as the '' Bunga-Bunga Affair '' as reference to the invented Abyssinian dialect the hoaxers used while on the ship.
The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, no, and everybody's got to live their life
And God knows I've got to live mine
God knows I've got to live mine
William, William it was really nothing
William, William it was really nothing
It was your life ...
How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say :
"Oh ! Would you like to marry me ?
"And if you like you can buy the ring"
She doesn't care about anything
Would you like to marry me ?
And if you like you can buy the ring
I don't dream about anyone - except myself !
Oh, William, William it was really nothing
William, William
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, no, and everybody's got to live their life
And God knows I've got to live mine
God knows I've got to live mine
William, William it was really nothing
William, William it was really nothing
It was your life ...
How can you stay with a fat girl who'll say :
"Oh ! Would you like to marry me ?
"And if you like you can buy the ring"
She doesn't care about anything
Would you like to marry me ?
And if you like you can buy the ring
I don't dream about anyone - except myself !
Oh, William, William it was really nothing
William, William
Father calls me William,sister calls me Will,
Mother calls me Willie but fella's call me Bill,
Mighty glad I ain't a girl, rather be a boy,
Without them sashes, curls and things that's worn by Fauntleroy,
Love to chawnk green apples and go swimming in the lake,
Hate to take the castor oil they give for belly-ache,
Most all the time, the whole year round there ain't no flies on me,
But just before christmas I'm as good as I can be.
Mother calls me Willie but fella's call me Bill,
Mighty glad I ain't a girl, rather be a boy,
Without them sashes, curls and things that's worn by Fauntleroy,
Love to chawnk green apples and go swimming in the lake,
Hate to take the castor oil they give for belly-ache,
Most all the time, the whole year round there ain't no flies on me,
But just before christmas I'm as good as I can be.
You Are Old Father William
"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door
Pray, what is the reason of that?"
"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment, one shilling the box
Allow me to sell you a couple?"
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak
Pray how did you manage to do it?"
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose,
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father; "don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
"In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again."
"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door
Pray, what is the reason of that?"
"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment, one shilling the box
Allow me to sell you a couple?"
"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak
Pray how did you manage to do it?"
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose,
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father; "don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
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