Oh goodie. The queen is coming to visit Georgie**

[trof]

Just now on CNN.
Should this be in LBN?
;-)

She's coming in May.
The big question is...
WHY?
:shrug:

On edit: Oh...THE queen.
Of England and the rest of that stuff.

[Sanity Claws]

1. I thought you meant Jeff Gannon

Glad I read your message so I didn't say something stupid

[Lars39]

2. She wants to trash the Rose Garden.

She never forgets...:D

[Little Wing]

4. I was thinking something along those lines

:-)

[Karenina]

24. Her poor flamingos!!!

:grr:

[Lars39]

5. 'We' definitely were not amused about that incidence.

And don't you just know doofus will try to show off the flora. I'd love to be a fly and hear her smack him down.:D

[terrya]

3. Her Majesty is more forgiving than I would be.

Remember when shithead visited Britain several years ago...stayed at Buckingham Palace and his entourage did some damage to the Palace grounds? I'd never forgive him for that kind of rudeness.

[Tyo]

6. I'm sure Blair put her up to this

Poor Queen. The best we can hope for is that Georgie won't talk with his mouth full and won't start throwing food around. OMG, I hope he doesn't decide to try out one of his fart jokes. :eyes:

[terrya]

8. Hopefully, it's an invitation to the White House.

SURELY asshole wouldn't be so crass as to invite her to the ranch...

[alarimer]

20. And hopefully he won't try to give her a backrub

Like he did with the German chancellor.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I like the Queen.

She strikes me as one classy broad.

:shrug:

[Darth_Kitten]

9. She's a half-german usurper of the throne........

with a dyfunctional family to boot.

[terrya]

11. And I'd still rather have her as Head of State

than that crass, disgusting, embarrassing, piece of shit we're saddled with right now. And speaking of piece of shit, his family isn't slack in the disfunctional department.

[Tyo]

13. I agree, a monarchy would be nice

I mean Canada turned out just fine. But it's too late now I guess.

And the Hanovers did not usurp the throne. That is absolute rot. George I was the nearest living relative.

[sarge43]

17. He was the nearest living Protestant relative.

Anne's nearest living relative at the time of her death was her half brother, James, The Old Pretender, but he, of course, was Catholic and banned from the succession by 1701 Act of Succession.

[Darth_Kitten]

18. She was a crass, hateful woman, Queen Anne

I read a lot of 17th century books, being quite a fan of biographies from that period. Queen Anne was particularly vile, the way she treated her own father.
I wasn't a jacobite until I discovered just how much anti-catholic hysteria there was in England and how they overthrew a King who believed in religious tolerance. I've heard that over 50(??) catholics were passed over to get to George I.
I resent that the Windsors are in charge. I have no person animosity towards the Queen, she seems a decent sort, but the rest of them are cheap, shallow, and don't want to do anything of consequence with their lives.

[Darth_Kitten]

19. They didn't deserve it......there were dozens of people ahead of them.

George I was an abusive husband who kept his poor wife locked up in a castle for over 30 years, didn't speak a word of english, and had his mistresses loot England.

But at least he wasn't catholic. ;) :eyes:

[sarge43]

10. The given reason is the 400th anniversary of the founding of

Jamestown. Real reason, Just Call Me Tony twisted her arm.

[trof]

12. Tony's really sucking canal water now, isn't he?

whew

[sarge43]

15. Circling the drain, he is. n/t

[tigereye]

14. cool!

You can tell I just saw The Queen. (Helen Mirren was awesome.)

George has no class, though.

[terrya]

16. Wasn't that a great film?

Helen Mirren might as well just pick up the Best Actress Oscar right now. A magnificent performance. The actor who played Tony Blair looked exactly like him. The resembalance was uncanny.

When "The Queen" comes out on DVD, it will be a must buy. :-)

:hi:, tigereye.

[tigereye]

26. made me want to run over to England!

I liked that it was sympathetic to both sides of the argument.

I also like Blair's wife- she sounds pretty cool. I liked Blair a lot, too, until Bush got hold of him.

[u4ic]

21. Expect crappy weather

the Royals always bring their crappy English weather with them...:P

[jeff30997]

22. After a bottle or two Chimpy will sing to her:

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl,
but she doesn't have a lot to say
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
but she changes from day to day

I want to tell her that I love her a lot
But I gotta get a bellyful of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm going to make her mine, oh yeah,
someday I'm going to make her mine.

[Xipe Totec]

23. Repo of the colonies

Poorly managed, too much damage, bad credit risk, complaints from the neighbors.

[Lisa]

25. I'm hoping she gets to have this exchange with *

(background -- during a royal visit when Bush I was in office, "Dubya" got tanked and snuck past his mom, to accost the Queen: "I'm the black sheep of the family. Who's your black sheep?")

Now that the genealogists have been at work (* is reportedly a distant cousin of the Queen) ... she can reply,
"We've checked. It's still you."


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