the queen's tweets

[alocispepraluger102]

amusing satire

amusing satire

Edited June 5, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[Pete C]

I don't know, maybe one has to "buy in" to Twitter to find that funny?

http://petercherches.blogspot.com/2008/11/im-so-2006-or-blogs-are-bad-enough-but.html

[mjazzg]

an amusing antidote to a few days too many of "celebration", anything to prick the bubble.

Edited June 5, 2012 by mjazzg

[BillF]

an amusing antidote to a few days too many of "celebration", anything to prick the bubble.

Here's one to "prick the bubble":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/05/call-inquiry-jobseekers-jubilee-stewards

[BillF]

Here's another bubble pricker. I've certainly been reminded of "bread (or pasties) and circuses" recently:

[JSngry]

What kind of tweets does the old girl have left at her age anyway?

[mjazzg]

another cartoonist's view

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/the-daily-cartoon-760940.html

worth flicking back a couple of days too

[sidewinder]

Here's another bubble pricker. I've certainly been reminded of "bread (or pasties) and circuses" recently:

Killjoy !

[BillF]

Here's another bubble pricker. I've certainly been reminded of "bread (or pasties) and circuses" recently:

Killjoy !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

[A Lark Ascending]

I'm always amazed...I don't know why because it's happened again and again...how everyone rolls over at these jamborees into fawning flunkies. The BBC is unbelievable. Andrew Marr is supposed to be an incisive journalist!

I understand how most people like the pageantry, the nice colours and hats and the (illusory) sense of stability and tradition that these events suggest and have no wish to piddle on their party but a bit of proportion wouldn't go amiss. If I hear another bystander in a crowd telling me they are there because this is 'history'...well...I'll send them a copy of E.H. Carr.

I was in a urinal yesterday where the management had already placed a copy of the Telegraph with a suitably royal front page from that morning right in front of my nose. It was framed and behind glass, just in case someone thought of another use.

Edited June 6, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[Pete C]

I was in a urinal yesterday

How did you pronounce it?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I was in a urinal yesterday

How did you pronounce it?

MG

[Pete C]

How many Spoonerisms can one imagine from the thread title?

[A Lark Ascending]

I was in a urinal yesterday

How did you pronounce it?

As in wine (though it was beer that sent me there).

I suppose it should have been an urinal.

[BillF]

I suppose it should have been an urinal.

Only for upper-class pissers!

How many Spoonerisms can one imagine from the thread title?

You twat for thinking of it!

[A Lark Ascending]

I suppose it should have been an urinal.

Only for upper-class pissers!

An awful lot of them where I was!

[Pete C]

(though it was beer that sent me there).

You mean one mint julep wasn't the cause of it all?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

What IS one mint julep? I can't be asked to look it up on Wiki - and it'll be more amusing here.

MG

[robertoart]

I'm always amazed...I don't know why because it's happened again and again...how everyone rolls over at these jamborees into fawning flunkies. The BBC is unbelievable. Andrew Marr is supposed to be an incisive journalist!

I understand how most people like the pageantry, the nice colours and hats and the (illusory) sense of stability and tradition that these events suggest and have no wish to piddle on their party but a bit of proportion wouldn't go amiss. If I hear another bystander in a crowd telling me they are there because this is 'history'...well...I'll send them a copy of E.H. Carr.

I was in a urinal yesterday where the management had already placed a copy of the Telegraph with a suitably royal front page from that morning right in front of my nose. It was framed and behind glass, just in case someone thought of another use.

Right in front of ure-eye was it

The dress rehearsal.

Edited June 7, 2012 by freelancer

[JSngry]

What IS one mint julep? I can't be asked to look it up on Wiki - and it'll be more amusing here.

MG

Pretty unamusing beverage, actually. Sugar water, mint leaf, and bourbon. From the same people who think that Sweet Tea is a treat,

Imagine taking a bourbon and coke (a respectable and pleasant enough waste of bourbon, especially not particularly good bourbon), and replacing the coke with a glass of water that somebody poured a buttload of sugar into, and then they say, hey, lets add some prissy-ass mint leaves to make it taste even better.

No, no, no.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

What IS one mint julep? I can't be asked to look it up on Wiki - and it'll be more amusing here.

MG

Pretty unamusing beverage, actually. Sugar water, mint leaf, and bourbon. From the same people who think that Sweet Tea is a treat,

Imagine taking a bourbon and coke (a respectable and pleasant enough waste of bourbon, especially not particularly good bourbon), and replacing the coke with a glass of water that somebody poured a buttload of sugar into, and then they say, hey, lets add some prissy-ass mint leaves to make it taste even better.

No, no, no.

Oh, I'm not a whiskey man, so I don't care what you do to it.

MG

[RDK]

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/visiting-the-queen/1261515

[A Lark Ascending]

The greatest song ever about the British Monarchy:

Lyrics

Take the time to listen. Amazing to think this was written about the 1977 Jubilee and nothing has changed. I recall seeing Rosselson and Roy Bailey doing this in a pub in Nottingham in the early 80s and the atmosphere was electric - Thatcher, Reagan, the arms race etc on the rise and the Miners' Strike just around the corner.

Favourite lines:

She seems so commonplace a woman in her fuddy-duddy hats

But she doesn't stand in bus queues or live in high-rise flats

And she doesn't ride the rush hour or cycle down the Strand

And she doesn't play maraccas in the Ivy Benson band.

And she doesn't shop for bargains, she's never on the dole

And if she does the football pools she doesn't tell a soul.

And she never used to bother with the Inland Revenue

Though she's royally rewarded for the things she doesn't do

Edited June 8, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[Pete C]

Well, that's better than "her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she doesn't have a lot to say."