I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry...

[elisi]

My first (and probably last) macro. Inspired by Time Crash (spoilers for S3) and today's news.



(Created using ROFLbot.)

ETA: Apparently the leek is a Welsh thing! And I quote: "One legend tells of a battle between the Welsh and the Saxons fought in a field of leeks."

Hmmmm... *raises eyebrow* Well we all know that Obama is a Timelord, but the Prince of Wales? That one is new!

Anyway, that explains the choice of vegetable, if not why he's wearing a vegetable in the first place...

ETA2: According to spikereader: Today is St David's Day, when brave men, women and children sport a leek on their lapel. :)

Comments

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

I don't know about an embroidered leek - they certainly have the Prince of Wales Three Feathers as an emblem though.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I have always been told the emblem was a leek. Don't tell me I have been told lies!

[gillo]

It's the Prince of Wales feathers, which date back to the Black Prince, who did a bit of damage in your neck of the woods about six and a half centuries ago.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I know that emblem but Rubgy players also used the leek, and when I was a child it was only the leek that was mentioned by commentators during Rugby matches to talk about the Welsh team, probably because of the vegetable parallel with the rose, the shamrock and the thistle.