Chaucer does Britney

This is a little clip from a hilarious blog a student just pointed out to me. It's basically popular news, redone in Middle English:

STOP YOUR SCLAUNDRES OF BRITNEY!

By the blood and nayles and bones of Our Lord, how swyving dare any man to make japeryes of Britney de Speres? Considereth, ye churles, how many sorwes hath y-flocked Britney-ward. Her aunt hath perisshed, and eek she hath tasted the wo that is in mariage, and she hath two swyving enfauntes for the which she must care. Ywis, her hosbond she founde to be nat but an dronklewe man, and a foule adulterer, and nowe the custodie of the children is in the proces of the courtes of the realme.

All of yower care is for the rederes of gossip and the silver that ye shal win when ye speke of her adversitee. YWIS, SHE IS A FLESHLICH CREATURE LIKE THOU OR ME, YE CHURLES!

I find myself wondering who these posters are. The blog mentions the big medieval congress in Kalamazoo, which means we're talking about academics--obviously academics with way too much time on their hands. And the academic who writes the role of Chaucer has high cholesterol and has to start an exercise program now (although heck, he could be writing in character--that Chaucer's kinda portly). He has been to Kalamazoo but evidently doesn't go anymore (unlike the John Mandeville character); his ME is much better and more original than the other posters. So I'm speculating he's the prof and the others are a bunch of his grad students. And they're mostly male, as evidenced by the strong urge to sell tee-shirts and imagine Middle English pick-up lines (women just don't do that so much).

Tee-shirt sales. Such a guy thing.

But kudos to them all--and especially for keeping up their anonymous mystery.