Posted to further unhinge those already mad on the subject.
(According to this Tate Gallery page, from which it was taken, a painting on ivory by Nasrat Allah Shiraz, after Annigoni. I can’t seem to find any good scans of the original.)
Posted on 05/12/2007 6:53:15 AM PDT by theothercheek
When Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited Goddard Space Flight Center, they dropped in on mission control to listen to an exchange between British-born NASA astronaut C. Michael Foale and the three astronauts aboard the international space station, and later toured an exhibit with British astronaut Piers Sellers, who explained how a spacesuit's life-support system operates. The Washington Post reports that Prince Philip inquired, "What do you do about natural functions?" and "the astronaut gave a discreet answer."
Not only this is the most unoriginal question the Prince could have thought to ask, but it is rather rude as well. No one asks him or his wife about their bodily functions, so why does he think this is a proper question to ask someone else? Instead of sending a platoon of protocol advisers to our shores to teach us bumpkins how to behave, the advisors would have done better to concern themselves with how the Royal Consort – who is clearly the product of inbreeding – behaved.
NOTE: See also: "G-d Save (Us From) The Queen" (second item, The Daily Blade).
From now on, please post items from this source in Blogsville.
Hear, hear, An American Mother!
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would be astonished at the hostility expressed here towards our ancestral country. Most of our freedoms were derived from English roots. Englishmen fought for liberty for centuries before the Boston Tea Party, and don't forget the colonists were outraged mainly because they were not being accorded their rights as Englishmen.
Besides, in case you haven't noticed, the WOT is being waged mainly by the English-speaking bits on the map, so cut the royals some slack. We need to stick together.
” No one asks him or his wife about their bodily functions, so why does he think this is a proper question to ask someone else?’
Because royalty can. You think the monarchy means first among equals? LOL
Some 16 year old on MTV I think. That’s about Wallace’s level.
These are Google search results:
1 - 10 of about 1,460,000 links for “the stiletto:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=the+stiletto
18 - 27 of about 3,340,000 for stiletto”:
http://www.google.com/search?q=stiletto&hl=en&newwindow=1&c2coff=1&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&start=17&sa=N
The Stiletto Blog has 6,520 links, you can see what other sites have picked up or linked to its posts - and was once quoted by Mickey Kaus: 1 - 10 of about 6,520 for thestilettoblog
I vaguely heard of Alexa. I’m sure you’ve heard of Google. You can snicker, but it’s a legitimate source of information - even if you don’t always agree with what’s on there.
I find it amazing that people can get their knickers in such a wad over a question that I bet 90% want to know the answer to. As to the Queen, manners are a virtue and much to be desired. When she dies, so goes the decency and respect that the monarchy represents.
I think this thread has received more hits than the blog site.
Then there’s Prince Charles who talks to plants (and they apparently talk to him about global warming). We won’t go into the behavior of the royal ex-es Diana and Fergie. When does it all end? Why keep one family ensconced in great wealth? Why have a monarchy in this day and age?
Oh well, whatever. I have no time to continue arguing about silly things like this, and am disturbed to find that you do.
Could be, but its organic - not paid- Google search ranking wouldn’t be as good as it is if no one visited the site. “The Stiletto” beats out everything but the Sirius Stiletto - including all those shoe and knife purveyors. At least when I conducted the search it was #2 out of 1.46 million search results.
Posted to further unhinge those already mad on the subject.
(According to this Tate Gallery page, from which it was taken, a painting on ivory by Nasrat Allah Shiraz, after Annigoni. I can’t seem to find any good scans of the original.)
Finally! Someone who gets it!
Most of the hits were probably accidental from people looking for O.J. Simpson info.
So true, so true. Anyway, looks like Anne Romney had more class than Bill Clinton by declining to play along.
I am not as smart as a fifth grader when it comes to search algorighms so why/how would typing in “OJ Simpson” as a search term bring up inbound and outbound links to The Stiletto?
I do know how Lindy answered the king. He explained how did it — an arrangement involving a length of rubber tubing and a soda bottle, as I recall. Moreover, he told how he pitched the bottle while still over the Atlantic. He was amused, not offended, by the question.
Of course he was not offended - he’s not “royal.” But “royalty” can say and do as it pleases without protocol advisors worrying that it will offend a “commoner.” And “royalty” takes offense at the slightes provocation - just to “prove” an unearned, unwarranted superioirty. You should have seen the disapproving look on the Queen’s face when Nancy Pelosi made the gigantic faux pas of extending her hand in greeting - and again when Pres. Bush misspoke while reading his speech. O’Reilly has a body language expert analyze the Queen’s facial expressions and such on both these occasions. I know the Queen thinks she’s all that and a bag of chips (or is it crisps) but to me she is just a mere mortal, just another human being. And neither Nancy Pelosi nor Pres. Bush did anything to warrant her “disapproval.”
The simple fact is that the leading figures of a Republic, even a secondary figure like Pelosi but particularly the President , are on an equal footing with the Queen. Let me add one thing: In social terms the Royal family are parvenus compared with some of the other noble families of England, or of Europe. In the latter case, I am thinking of the Hapsburgs. Otto von Hapsburg
is (was?) the superior of any Windsor socially or intellectually.
After getting the crap beaten out of me all morning, I am happy that you agree that our heads of state are not in any way inferior to the the Queen. But I would also like to say that our Founding Fathers went further than that and stated that all of us are created equal - that is, equal to anyone who considers him/heself royal - and have been endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights - that is, rights not bestowed at the whim of a sovereign who could just as easily take them away.
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