Tuesday 22 March 2011

Short Lists

Foreign politicians who are/were married to English men.

1. Aung San Suu Kyi

2. DBR Reed came to my rescue with Helen Clark (former PM of NZ). I would have ruled out her husband on the grounds of not being English enough, but it turns out that the other person I was thinking of, Yulia Tymoshenko, is not married to an English musician at all, it's her daughter who is so betrothed, so Ms Clark is the fall back candidate. Oops.

Next up in the list of lists, a couple of very short lists indeed: Cities in France whose name, if listed next to their region, sounds like a chav and her daughter (submitted by John B), and Towns in Australia which sound as if they were named after a heavy metal magazine.

8 comments:

dearieme said...

#1's husband was at most half English: "His mother was the daughter of a French-Canadian ambassador."

Mark Wadsworth said...

D, these 'short lists' are getting me into all sorts of trouble!

Lola said...

Wasn't Winston Churchill's wife American?

Lola said...

You could have some real fun with this imagining suitable pairings.

How about Ghengis Khan and Janet Street-Porter?

Or, Helen of Troy and Compo Semminite?

Mark Wadsworth said...

L, his mum was American, not his Mrs.

DBC Reed said...

Too easy : Kerang is an Australian town. (Feel free to disqualify me like you usually do because you were thinking of something else)

Mark Wadsworth said...

DBC, you got it in one! If there's another town that qualifies, I'd be glad to hear it.

J said...

Lorient, Brittany.

What do I win (please don't say a trip there)?