Friar Tim the Ruttiless
Oft
misspelled as "Fryer" Tim – an understandable corruption in all the
circumstances - is local to the land of fish suppers and whippet fancying (oft misspelled
as "whip it", though this is sometimes accurate too). A mystical place
of much rain and no water, where old men don’t wash their hair and boast
hugely of it. A land where they play the noble game and always lose. Where men
have pigeons in their lofts and ferrets down their trousers, where men from
other places are thus made most welcome by the female population. Indeed, a
place well worth moving to as long as you are male, and don’t acquire the
local habits.
The
motto of this place is:
"God
is in his Kingdom, Geoffrey is our Bard, let the ferret guard your merit
while lass is cooking lard"
Why is he Ruttiless? How long has he been so? Will he
always be? To what does this refer? Many have wondered about goats and such, but
the scholars tell us about the lost lands of Rutland, where men are free of
whippets and the like and point us to his middle name.
