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Congrats jimmgtal - first win?

Thanks aristo - I suspected that I would find the prize disturbing. I'm a bit vague on early US history, but I had thought that the original settlers had quite a good relationship with the eastern natives? Who was responsible for the massacre?

There's no voting on this thread? God, I'm so confused........

Well done Jimmytgal - thanks Aristo!

chrise: The Wampanoag had simply had too much. I'd say the Puritans were at fault, and that the King of England behaved quite admirably. Jenny Hale Pulsipher's "Subjects unto the Same King" is perhaps the best book about the war. King Philip (Metacomet) was an extraordinary character.

Congrats Jimmy and thanks Aristo (:o)

Please don't worry buddy, you cheered me up no end! I don't usually enter Clueless because , in the very unlikely event of winning, I wouldn't feel competent to judge the following week.
Thank you aristo and well done Jim

Thanks aristo!

Hi buddy
The Peer Review and more recent Weekend Peer Review comps have voting; in the grandaddy, Clueless, the winner is selected by the setter. Hope that clarifies things!

Thanks, Aristo, for a well considered verdict. I was feeling pretty Clueless after buddy's pre-emptive strike. Couldn't work out what was going on. I nearly posted congrats to Rosalind with the comment that in the fun stakes jimmyg's whipped cream and the butcher's bottom must be up there as a close second.

Nice one, jimmyg. Watch out for double dips😂

Thanks for the vote. Pleased for my first win. I did think rump may have been a better word than bottom. I'm still not convinced. What do people think?

Hi jimmy
Neither quite works this side of the Atlantic - "bottom" and "rump" are both ARSE over here (though ASS in the US).

Years ago I was doing an Everyman crossword. There was an anagram - UP TO HIS ???? IN IT. The letters remaining were A R S E. I thought "surely not?"






It turned out to be EARS.