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Offline Flossy

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50 years on the throne....
« on: June 01, 2002, 01:45:08 PM »
.... and our street is ready to party (hopefully after we manage to escape! :) )  View from our bedroom window:
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« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2002, 04:09:51 PM »
What are those things on top of the chimenys?
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« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2002, 04:28:06 PM »
nice cuban flags ;)
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« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2002, 04:33:04 PM »
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Gee....has she tried a laxative?  :D
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« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2002, 07:10:51 PM »
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Gee....has she tried a laxative?  :D


LMAO!:D

Good old Queenie...here's hoping she sticks around another fifty...or at least long enough to prevent Charles from sitting on the "throne".  Just can't see him as King.
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« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2002, 04:17:25 AM »
The Russians had the right idea in 1917...

...hey, was that tasteless? :D
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« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2002, 06:20:48 AM »
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What are those things on top of the chimenys?


ROTFL!!!

  Your kidding rite Gad??  (if not lol, those are called T.V. antenna's, not all that many left here in the good ole U.S. of A.)
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« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2002, 08:07:02 AM »
Fifty years and not one election for the Head of State.

Congratulations and the best of health to the Queen. :)
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« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2002, 06:24:15 PM »
Was just wondering, what does the Queen and her Royal family actually do for England besides live the high life on the backs of her citizens?

Isn't she/they just a figure head or do they have real political clout? Just wondering, no offense intended...
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2002, 07:45:39 PM »
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Was just wondering, what does the Queen and her Royal family actually do for England besides live the high life on the backs of her citizens?

Isn't she/they just a figure head or do they have real political clout? Just wondering, no offense intended...


A whole crapload of charity work.  Plus, openning up malls.
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« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2002, 10:00:35 PM »
Ah, thanks for the pic...I was wondering where Elian was after all this time    :D
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« Reply #11 on: June 02, 2002, 10:20:34 PM »
The Queen + the rest of the royal family are the Uk's Ambassadors to the rest of the world, they bring in quite a bit of money in our way.  There's the tourism thing too- people come to the Uk to see the monarchy.

I would much rather have the Queen than President Blair anyday!  She's a lot more respectable than any politician in the Uk and the Royal family isn't a bad Role model-  I thought Prince Charles did well on the Dope scandal concerning Prince Harry.


I did start writing about how the monarchy came to be as weak as it is today, but then i realised how long and complicated it was and it would take forever to write.
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« Reply #12 on: June 02, 2002, 11:03:11 PM »
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.... and our street is ready to party (hopefully after we manage to escape! :) )  View from our bedroom window:


Flossy, I hope you have a wonderful celebration. May God Bless the Queen and Great Britian.
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« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2002, 11:45:58 PM »
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'tis the Queen's jubilee year
and she won't have another, I greatly fear

congrats UK.
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« Reply #14 on: June 03, 2002, 06:20:46 AM »
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Flossy, I hope you have a wonderful celebration. May God Bless the Queen and Great Britian.
LOL, thanks!  :)  Well, I managed to miss the party, but it seems while we were just over 100 miles away visiting family, there was none-stop torrential rain/thunder-storms - in fact we passed through one coming home.  Not seen it rain so hard for years, so bad that even on double-speed the windscreen wipers weren't clearing it fast enough and we could barely see where we were going.... the roads were flooding rapidly.  

A shame really, our neighbours had raised a lot of money over the last few months to have this party, and gone to a lot of trouble to get the road closed, with all the proper signs and diversions set up, as well as insurance cover.  Saturday had been a glorious day while they had been setting up too.  The one thing nobody could prevent was that awful weather....  :(
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