Samuel Pepys Is A Dick, Part the Fourth

[pallas_athena]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Samuel Pepys is the Simon Cowell of the Restoration. Today's entry:

So home, and there to cards with my wife, Deb., and Betty Turner, and Batelier, and after supper late to sing. But, Lord! how did I please myself to make Betty Turner sing, to see what a beast she is as to singing, not knowing how to sing one note in tune; but, only for the experiment, I would not for 40s. hear her sing a tune: worse than my wife a thousand times, so that it do a little reconcile me to her. So late to bed.

Well, I'm glad Pepys is "a little reconciled" to his wife, if only because he's found someone even more tone-deaf to humiliate. Dick.

Comments

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

"Oh honey, you're not the worst woman in the world after all!"

Super-dick.

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

So, so true.

Don't know if you saw this earlier entry (http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1667/03/01/):

... and before dinner making my wife to sing. Poor wretch! her ear is so bad that it made me angry, till the poor wretch cried to see me so vexed at her...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I's so glad that Pepys wrote the diary, and not someone who was actually nice...

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Pepysdickery is endlessly amusing.

[breltard95.livejournal.com]

Now I'm picturing Mrs. Pepys going about the house warbling like Edith Bunker, and Pepys shouting, "Stifle thyself, there, and get me a tankard."