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Meh.
I liked it. It fits her expression.
Michelle has a “and your little dog, too” thing going on.
B-HO looks like a cardboard cutout
It doesn’t help that he isn’t facing the same way Michelle and Queen
Elizabeth are. The stark contrast between his suit and the
geometric profile add to the illusion. Evidently the pose was for
several photographers at once. Those seldom work out.
Liz probably wouldn’t even have noticed if it were cardboard.
Maybe she was cardboard? How old is she now?
She went to charm school with Methusalah.
I think she’s 82, but don’t quote me. She’ll outlive mum, who was 102, I think.
Of course she will. She’s got the best medical the Tax Payer’s money can provide. She just has to fart and she has a team of footmen and doctors rushing to her aid. Of course anyone using the National Health has to wait 3 weeks or so for an appointment for anything urgent. Queenypoos and the rest of the wastes of space in Buck House get urgent medical pretty much immediately (I bet they haven’t tried using NHS Direct
)
**Comrade Vila now gets off his soapbox**
Bravo! I laughed quite heartily at your statement.
hahaha – the fart part was funny
Not really. In all the pictures I’ve seen of the first lady, she either looks like the cat that ate the canary, or the cat that is angry because it missed. She doesn’t seem to photograph well.
You wouldn’t know that if you listened to the MSM, she is just so glamorous and perfect with the arms and the fashion… I think she’s just so so.
Maybe it should be “touring with poseurs”?
she is old and scary looking.
Stop talking bad about Michelle Obama!! You troll.
LOL! Epic Win!!
Finally a funny one! (Would “Muslim tourists” have made it funnier though?)
yes
and Michelle doesn’t look old, just scary.
I’ll bet 999 out of 1000 Obama cult members couldn’t even tell you who that is.
lol, firefox STILL hasn’t added “Obama” to it’s list of real words, HOW Ironic O_O
But you can’t use nouns in scramble, so it’s not a real word.
You most certainly can. Cat, hat, dog, fox…all nouns. Names are proper nouns, there is a difference. If you’re going to be grammatically picky, do so correctly. Also, the game is Scrabble…unless there is some generic version called Scramble out someplace.
“Kids, I just bought you a game at the dollar store! It’s called Scramble. It’s like Scrabble….but there’s only some of the letters. It’ll be fun!”
“Cool mom!!! But whats with the backwards ‘R’ and ‘P’?”
“It’s like Scrabble – but you can’t use nouns!”
Lol! Clearly, that’s the difference.
How could I have been so naive?
Fer GOD’S sake!
You can use common nouns in Scrabble, not proper ones… Thus one could hace Dog, but not Scrabble.
Jesus, people are DENSE….
It was a joke about the “Scramble” typo (?) above and it being a different game. …
Jesus, people are dense…
‘Hace’ is the Spanish conjugated he/she/respect of the verb “hacer,” which means “to do” or “to make.”
There fore, this statement could be Spanglish for “One could do dog” or “One could make dog.”
You decide.
*snickers*
You tell him diss.
Like Scrabble, HATE Monopoly…. Deliberately bankrupting myself is the aim of the game for me…
So I suspect we shall see you in government in the future… Fundamental values with your economic acumen might just be the ticket to your future career…
Lol… I’ll just think up some catchphrase or other and I’ll be all set!
I suggest not comparing yourself to an animal with a reputation as a vicious critter like a pit bull, also suggest you avoid being whiny if you do decide to compare yourself to a tough critter.
I would help with a catchphrase but you can’t afford my services…
Catchphrase doesn’t need much really… Needs to be vague but will sound profound if you shout it loud enough. Last election we were treated to the oh-so-eloquent “it’s time.”
What time was it? Peanut Butter Jelly Time? Hammer Time? There’s a graph on graphjam, perhaps it was used in the political analysis.
How about “Back to Darien!” If you’re going to go for broke, you might as well go all the way……
Lol! That’s my catchphrase, thanks Slan…
Ah yes!! The Darien disaster. The famous Scots attempt to set up shop in Central America. “What do we take to trade to the Indians who live in a steaming jungle and who can’t read. I know let’s take a pile of fur coats and a load of bibles, that’ll be a real money spinner.” That’s what the Scots get for trusting a bunch of Pirates who told them of this area.
I think Scramble is the Facebook version? I could be wrong.
Lexulous is the Facebook version. Scramble is a different game entirely.
It’s a fun game you play with raw eggs.
Mmmm…scrambled eggs…with bacon?
And sausage links! Yummy, now I’m hungry.
Waitress!! Where’s my coffee!!
I think this person means proper nouns.
… and scrabble
A proper noun is NOT a real word, and as such will never be added.
You do realize you’re talking grammar to someone who has maybe a third grade mentality, don’t you?
Um…. sorry, but “what firefox adds to spell check” and “words you can use in scrabble” are not the same thing, guys.
Besides, making a big deal about “grammar” issues seems kinda 3rd grade…
The only reason they are “making a big deal” is because the idiot above stated that Firefox hadn’t added Obama’s name to a list of recognized words, as if that has any significance at all.
The original remark was just a throw-away comment. The funny thing about the responses are that they make a big deal abour “rules of grammar” that don’t exist.
There are no rules in the English language (or any other human language) that specify words that must be excluded from the firefox spell check. Claims that “grammar” demands Scrabble rules be followed in all domains are quite funny.
So… it was okay for the first person to be an ass because his/her comment didn’t mean anything, but it’s not okay for anyone else?
Um….. sorry, but your response has nothing to do with what I said.
Read for comprehension next time.
You said the original remark was a throw away comment, thus implying that it was okay for him to say something meaningless but that anyone who responded to it with a discussion on grammar was just being ridiculous. I don’t think that YOU even know what you’re saying.
Sigh. You’re still not reading for comprehension.
The followup comments were pontification on non-existent rules, making them deserving of ridicule. The first comment was merely a throw-away with no such pretensions.
Again, you’re assigning value and worth to comments as if you have the right to decide what’s important and what’s not. All comment threads digress, as far as I know no one was saying we all had to follow scrabble rules at all times. You just really, really, really want to be offended today. One of these days you’re going to have to get over that us vs. them complex you seem to have.
Pretentious dropulus is pretentious. I am a fan of irony…
Janey – “you’re assigning value and worth to comments “. Yep. Nothing wrong with that.
as to the scrabble rules, sorry… but if you don’t get it now, you’re not gonna get it… so it’s not worth it to me to continue this tediousness.
Still a slightly dull third grader there, Republi-boy… you make assinine comments then get pissy about being picked up on them…
Ooooo, you called me Janey! Is that supposed to be an insult? A sense of familiarity we don’t actually have? Condescending wit? I guess you sure showed me.
Janey darling, could you take that delightfully distracting bit of chest and fetch me a drink? All this drooling and staring is thirty work.
Shown Janey is shown. And Janey.
*toddles of in her high heels to get DWN a drink* Besides Rho, everyone knows that YOU call me Janie with an I E at the end.
*is a happy and sated man*
Like you’d know ‘third grade’ if it bit your shiny Republican arse…
heh. Mention “3rd grade” and who magically appears.
Serendipity… as I said below, it seems to be height of wit well beyond you…
Did Stewie Griffin just walk by here?
I imagine him more like Dr. Cox from ‘Scrubs’.
I can see that.
Or House only we’d reinstate Hugh Laurie’s British accent.
Nope!! I would have prefered Stewie. (Especially as Darth Vader – “Err. I think I’ve just sithed my pants. I’ve just done a Darth DooDoo. You know I’ve got hundreds of these”
)
I didn’t even know they were talking to me.
My full name married name is recognized by Firefox.
So is the Steve.
My full name is recognized by Firefox too. Which is better than my cell phone can say. @@
Mine is too, man that’s boring. *pouts over common name*
Yes. “Ironic.” Right. Like, “Ironic troll is very ironic.”
Or, “ironic material is ferrous”
Ironic?? Isn’t that some sort of molecular bond, sort of like covalent
That depends.
Do you count voting for Obama as part of the Obama cult? Or do you actually have to believe he’s the Messiah?
Because I voted for him, think he has a chance, but know I could be wrong. And still knew who that was before it ever showed up on this site.
Well, since you don’t vomit every single time you hear Obama’s name, then clearly you are part of the Obama cult. Our ritual virgin sacrifices are on Tuesday evening. A lot of us don’t think he’s the messiah, just a prophet. Join us!
I only vomit every third time, can I join too?
Well, sure, we in the Obama cult are clearly clueless as to the future of our nation as has been pointed out to us repeatedly, so we don’t actually have standards.
And if you’re gonna spew, spew into this. (1 pt. reference)
Stop perpetuating the stereotype that American rednecks don’t know what irony means.
Royal Oreo?
Er, go, Ogre, ere you err again. Agreed?
I see what you did there.
I like how the queen did her hair extra high to try to look a little bit taller, but Michelle was one step ahead
When I saw this picture, I had a song running through my head…”One of these things is not like the others….”
Who doesn’t love muppets?
(Yes, I know it’s a Sesame street reference, but muppets in general are great fun regardless of the intellectual property the were derived from)
They could have at least given the poor woman a stool or something…
The oxygen is too rich up there for her, it would have killed her.
Wow! Too rich for the Queen of England?
Given the current economic situation…
Too rich!! For Queenypoos!! Naah!! She’ll just take money off the tax payer to pay for it like she always does.
** Vladimir Illych Restal climbs back on his soapbox **
The Civil List is paid for from the interest on a loan made by William of Organge to British Govt, to the tune of (in 18th C value) 20 million pounds of Gold. From memory, the Civil List cost hasn’t covered the actual interest since the mid 19th C, so we’re in arrears, and if the Civil list isn’t paid then the compound value of the loan comes due to the Royals, since it was their personal wealth that bank rolled the Govt against the French, when Britain was about the only power who could contain France in continental Europe.
You think the we owe the Chinese a lot? Her Maj could bankrupt the country several times over… and calling in THAT debt would result in a bigger constitutional crisis than her refusing to sign assent to acts of parliament…
…oxygen levels decline as altitude increases
…the Queen is far more wealthy than the Obama family
Either I missed the funny or it wasn’t there.
D’oh! I guess she’s too rich for the oxygen up there, that’s what I meant to say, yeah… that’s it…
The latter…
Elizabeth is like “Eee, get these people out of my palace…”
Except that from all reports, Michelle and Auntie Lillibet got along very warmly and well. HRM made a point of telling Michelle that they must stay in touch.
I’d love to have been a fly on the wall for the Duke of Edinburgh’s comment’s, though.
GOOD GOD! HE’S BLACK!
Lame… this wasn’t even funny.
Very funny…actually!
Hah! Not a bad lol!
Oh noes! Teh queen is surrounded by GIANTS!
Its ok that they’re tourists, they’re brown-nosing tourists and they come bearing DVDs that don’t work in that region. They’re not all bad. Oh and they bring iPods with boring speeches. As if the Queen really wanted a collection of Obama’s speeches. How pretentious!
Actually along with boring and pretentious, we can assign the word arrogant.
Let me provide an example of contemporary usage.
“Americans have been arrogant.”
See the context in which the word arrogant has been used?
Now everybody in the States bend over and grab your ankles.
If you know what’s coming next, you won’t be so surprised when it happens.
Point of grammar – “Americans are arrogant.” would have been a far better comment…
Hey! We’re not arrogant! Just because we’re better than everybody doesn’t mean we’re arrogant!
(I’m just kidding. Don’t hurt me.)
There are only words in Klingon that cover the deep personal insult that was, and the lengths I shall go to get my revenge!
How do you know what the Queen wants? Did she mention it the last time she had you over for tea? Also, the ipod did not have Obama speeches but contained media from the Queen’s last visit to the United States, therefore it would be interesting to her. Honestly, what are you supposed to give someone who could get themselves whatever they wanted, it’s all just symbolic. I thought the ipod and the dvd’s were an interesting symbol of Obama’s popularity with the youth of America. I’d rather get dvds and an ipod than a picture of the Queen and her husband (which is what the Queen gives all visiting dignitaries).
“How do you know what the Queen wants? ”
Snicker. Sooooo…… OBVIOUSLY the Queen wanted a second ipod. She OBVIOUSLY had no way of getting one in the hinderland known as “London”. OBVIOUSLY, nobody in all of the OK could possibly every figure out how to download one of Barry’s bee-ooo-tee-ful speachificashuns.
Yeap. it was her dream come true.
“it’s all just symbolic”
Symbolic of … “Barry shops at Walmart”?
So, basically what you’re saying is you DON’T know what the Queen wants but still want to find a way to be offended by the whole thing.
Actually, I’m too busy laughing at your assertion that YOU know what the queen wants, while decrying the presumption of others who offer their opinion.
Eye! Ron! Knee!
I never said she wanted an ipod. I said that you don’t know that she didn’t. As far as I know she hasn’t publicly stated that she doesn’t like the gift so there is more support for my view than yours. All I said was that she might find footage of her own visit to the United States interesting. Maybe you should think about that reading comprehension you were mentioning earlier. Clearly a case of do what I say and not as I do.
I don’t imagine the BBC would lie about the gift received by Queen Elizabeth, so (linked) here’s the word from them. Said Ipod contained footage of the queen’s most recent visit to the US.
Yeah, that’s where I found it too, but I found it by way of the Huffington Post so I didn’t link it up. I’d heard it from several other sources though, so I didn’t think I needed to link it because only the most lackwitted would believe it was filled with Obama speeches.
I’m trying to find a good link that isn’t a blog, but apparently, along with the show tunes and pictures from a few of the Queen’s visits to America, Obama’s 2004 speech to the DNC and his 2009 Inaugural speech is loaded on there as well.
There’s a difference between putting a few on there and the claim that it was filled with them and that’s the only thing on there. Also, while I allow for the possibility, I’m going to reserve believing it until I see proof.
Oh, ok. I thought the dispute was about them being on there at all. I think it’s a bit narcissistic to have them on there at all, but I have no idea what happened behind the scenes. Maybe the Queen hadn’t seen them and wanted to, and therefore requested them. *shrugs* It doesn’t matter either way, at least ithe IPod works over there.
Yeah, while I don’t disagree with the DVD’s as a gift, per say, I do think that someone should have checked the format! Some staffer got his ass chewed over that one, you better believe it!
The DVDs seem like a last minute “Oh sh!t we forgot a gift! GO GO GO!!!!” type of thing…..but that’s just an impression. I doubt that social faux pas will happen again anytime soon.
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Will the blog from the Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper do as a cite? I realize it’s a blog, but it’s not exactly a random blog quoting another random blog…….. Anyway, if you’re interested, it’s linked.
Yeah, I’ll take that. The video from the visit in ’57 was probably pretty cool. As for his speeches, well, like you said, no way to know what the Queen thought of it and she DID give a picture of herself as a gift!
LOL, well she is the Queen of all the land! LOL.
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From what I’ve read, that’s the traditional gift, so the Obamas should not have been surprised to receive it, hehe.
Yeah, I read that too. I’m just saying I wish I could get away with handing out photos of myself as a gift. It would make Christmas WAAAY easier.
*snerk*
*looks over at picture of sister that was given as a Christmas present from Sister……*
LOL. We all got pictures that year.
No way! That’s awesome! Well, not for you, obviously, but that someone had the balls to try it. *giggles*
I’ll give her that they were professionally done, and none of us had any before that, but it was just kind of funny. They were all nicely framed and everything! LOL
Well, I’m going to bed. It’s Spring Break and I have another day of Spring Clean and Sort ahead of me tomorrow. I’ve yet to tackle the mountain of books shoved under my bed that I need to go through and decide what to keep and what to give to the library. *sigh*
But … Who uses a DVD-player that isn’t region-free? :p Someone just got dragged kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat, so all in all it’s probably for the better!
@froo: At least they weren’t autographed…were they?
There are certain expectations here; the conventions of diplomacy. Obama has committed a couple of big FAILS here.
Yeah, it’s undiplomatic to give someone an ipod. I’ll be sure and tell my mother how offended I am by her Christmas gift to me.
Heh. You really should make up your mind… are you claiming that this ISS or ISN’T analogous to a Christmas pressy?
The Christmas present comment was in response to you claiming the Queen already had one, like maybe Obama should have given a gift receipt with it or something. My point was that it’s not like you’re buying for your friend and have to worry about what they already have. I’m a teacher, I’ve spent the last year working in High School. Like it or not, ipods are a cultural staple of the next generation and together with the internet is the number one way kids receive their information and media. It’s symbolic of young American culture. The above comment I made in response to your assertion that Obama somehow committed some diplomatic faux pas, which is so ridiculous it didn’t even deserve the response you got from me, certainly not one that was more in depth.
Then why MUST you respond, if you are above it?
Oh wait — if you’ve graced us with a response we must deserve it? It’s like you’re gifting us…with your response, which we don’t want.
That’s pretty arrogant, don’t you think?
So they murdered your innocence and your ability to comprehend reality…
@April: Dropulus asked Jane a question, and she responded. See how that works? Your claim that her response to a direct question was unwanted is asinine. You don’t speak for anyone but yourself, so your use of “we” is arrogant. If *you* don’t want to engage Jane in conversation, simply do not post under her. You inserted yourself into a conversation to indicate that you didn’t want to be in it: That’s ridiculous.
Dropulus has another mental equal…
Damn, now he isn’t even unique…
I’m sure he’s somewhere sobbing now, because Fester insulted him…
Nah, he’s too tough for that. He is probably discussing with his sock and mildew collection his next cunning move…
Could be… could be… He is one of the tougher socks.
Aww! His and hers socks…that’s special!
There are all kinds of socks, don’t ya know.
Wow, the level of ironic hypocrisy is staggering…
I can digg April, I hope she’s still here in May too.
How’s that? To be ironic and a hypocrite I’d have to be the person who originated the practice of intruding where I’m not wanted. I’m just following the pack, and you can’t deny that. People here have veritable gang bangs of intrusion into specific questions being asked of someone else. I’m only one person…
The ‘gang bangs of intrusion’ you speak of generally don’t involve name-calling from the get-go, as is your MO. I suggest calming down and maybe people will listen. Otherwise, get thee to a nunnery.
@April: It was this that I found ironically hypocrital: “Why bother unless you just feel the need to pontificate and annoy?”
I never said posting a reply was beneath me, nor have I ever said that someone didn’t deserve the response I gave them, now did I?
Thus, not ironic and hypocritical.
You might as well terrorize another target, because you’re never going to get the warm and fuzzy emotional validation you so desperately crave from me.
Might as well vamparize another target, bud-deh.
..and here they come, in their clustery hordes.
“NONE SHALL PASS!!!111eleventy!!11!!”
lol
@April: Wow, you’re not even reading your own words. So are you going to admit that you just want to pontificate and annoy or are you retracting that previous statement? That is where the hypocrisy is coming from. You’re being annoying and pontificating while deriding us for the same. You could at least have some short term memory.
Also, vampire doesn’t have two a’s so it would technically be vampirize. If you are going to mix up who is saying what and try to insult me, you could at least get it right.
LOL!
Puppeh to it’s own vomit.
*kicks puppy*
Puppy Kicker!
Evil!
Evil!
Evil!
Evil!
Evil!
Evil!
Evil!
*Hopes puppy bites you*
It’s okay AC, April isn’t even talking to anybody here at this point. She wants to talk to herself about puppies, vomit, and kicking them, that is her malfunction.
Loony troll is loony.
I have considered that maybe it is an Engrish issue. She said her innocence was murdered by Kim Jong’s goons. Maybe she just can’t learn English and has a personality disorder…
Aw, April just has her panties in a twist because the last time I engaged her in conversation she made less sense than a bag lady talking to themself on a street corner. I decided that while it’s fun to talk to crazy b*tches in the short term the level of drool ruins a good pair of shoes and it’s best to refrain from engaging with her.
Do link.
Was it where I pointed out a racist/bigoted statement someone maed and you made, you agreed with and then made an assumption regarding my religion??
Oh, and my panties can’t be twisted. I don’t wear panties.
Obvious typos brought to you courtesy of Firefox.
I like April, she has a vocabulary and no panties on. What’s not to like?
You were saying about ‘Third Grade’? Third Rate Third Grade seems to be a height you only aspire to…
“nobody in all of the OK”??
Oklahoma? What does that have to do with anything?
“I thought the ipod and the dvd’s were an interesting symbol of Obama’s popularity with the youth of America.”
So…. a gift to the Queen is supposed to be an expression of Barry’s own popularity with the MTV kids? Sounds like a pretty sad excuse for diplomacy…
They’re not giving each other Christmas presents. All gifts from one country to another are supposed to somehow symbolize the culture of the country giving it in someway. If ipods and dvd’s don’t symbolize current American culture I don’t know what else. You so obviously just want to hate everything about Obama that you’re finding weird stuff to nitpick about. This just makes you look sad and slightly crazy.
“They’re not giving each other Christmas presents. ”
– which makes your comments about “what the Queen wants” irrelevant, yes?
Gifts are meant to symbolize the **relationship** between countries… not the “current culture” of the giver. It is certainly not meant to reflect the cheapest, most common artifacts of “current culture”. If you disagree, maybe you could give an example from previous years? Did Jimmy Carter go to Europe bearing 8-tracks? Did JFK give heads of state Hula Hoops? Come on…
The really sad bit is that you think I am “finding weird stuff to nitpick about”; read the British press. The (region 1!!!) DVD collection was not received well.
We’re quite civilised here… we have multi-region DVD players, and multi-standard TVs…
Still, we’re still waiting for you to get more than a Third Grade wit so we can stop having to dumb down to answer you…
Will you relax for a change and maybe have some fun. Constantly with the insults. Geez. And, what’s wrong with a third grader anyway? They can be some of the wittiest people on the planet, we all should try and be more like kids.
Yes, yes, Schlize…
*pats his little pointed head*
Look! Shiny things…
Thaaaaaaaat’s better, see?
No, but you’re simply a retard.
So? Something wrong with that? You are a racist.
Reading comprehension fail by the idiot, and someone who knows nothing of the Duke of Edinburgh’s faux pas…
You really are compounding your general ignorance…
Why in the WORLD would I want to know something called the “Duke of Edinburgh’s faus pas”??!! AHAHAHAHHHAHA!!! Fester, stop, my sides are hurting now.
*facepalm*
Troll is obvious… and very stupid…
That’s “trolldujour” to you.
As an addendum: Much of the British Press is like US Talk Radio. It’s why they have naked women in them… or read like a translation of Der Sturm, if you replace the phrase ‘Asylum Seeker’ with ‘Jew’…
I stopped reading after I let myself get caught up in the term naked woman… I need to be more multicultural it seems… >_> But that requires me to watch television… Damn
Sorry!! WRONG AND FAIL!!! Some British Papers are. Tabloids are like this (actually only certain Tabloids, many Tabloids stopped showing them when women readers got peed off at seeing naked women in the Tabloids.) Others however such as the Sun and lower quality Tabloids do show them. Others such as the Mail, The Scottish Daily Record and others no longer have a page 3. As for the Asylum Seekers bit, completely wrong. Most broadsheets (particulary those on the left wing) have no worries about Asylum Seekers. However others such as The Mail (The Mail is actually quite famous for their attitude on this point. Watch Mock The Week on BBC or Dave, for this as nearly every week there is a crack on the Mail’s Attitude.)
Please do not paint every paper with the same brush, just because you have seen a couple. Not every paper are like those.
I’m British, you moron. And other than The Independent, they’re all toilet paper….
There again, what can one expect from someone named after the weaselly one in Blake’s 7?
OMG! Someone else who reads the Independent! No joke they only sell about three of them in my entire town…
You sound mighty familiar.
What gift would YOU, in your infinite wisdom, suggest for the Queen?
Generally, comfortable shoes…
If I was buying for my mother, Quantum of Solace or something more violent on DVD.
One would think your howling jackanapes would be pleased that he’s not pissing money up the wall to impress some head of state or the other.
I, personally, don’t WANT a ‘special relationship’ with the US. It tends to cost me money, ending up living within spitting distance of one of your nuclear deployment systems, or getting me in a war I don’t need to be in…
This is actually the first time I’ve ever heard what gift a president has given someone else. I never remember anyone mentioning it before. I think it’s one of those ZOMG!!! OBAMA NO WARES JAKET IN OVAL OFFICE!!! things, offense for the sake of being offended. When I was a kid I lived in Kansas and my parents dragged me to Eisenhower’s presidential library more times than any child should ever have to go, and it displayed many gifts given to him during his time as president. Like I said earlier, they all had some kind of cultural significance from the country that gave them.
Apparently a lot of heads of state gave Reagan saddles, because it was well known that he liked to ride.
Who or what was never determined…
You know, I thought for a second about specifying “ride horses” but I wouldn’t want to spoil your fun, dear.
I just have fun being a twit today. Loads of fun.
You are the funnest one on here.
I do try, thanks.
Problem with Wurm is that he needs flattery… and will take it from any source…
Eh, I blame my odd sense of manners. If somebody pays a compliment, thank them. Though if you want to rile me up, you’ll have to do better than that.
Ah Fester, don’t be jealous now, just because you don’t know how to have fun.
In his defense, Fester is more of the intellitroll variety while I am of the horny and playful prat variety.
I wouldn’t call him intelligent, just because his mind is full of useless and uninteresting facts. Ok, maybe some are interesting. But, he really needs to lighten up.
And this is where we disagree, I have found his facts useful and interesting. However, it is a mileage may vary situation as I am a nutball candy coated in gerbil shavings…
Well, we don’t have to agree on Fester, especially when you say things like “nutball candy coated in gerbil shavings”. That’s worth coming in here for the day!
I’ve gotten my dose of funny.
Fair enough, gerbil shavings for all.
Ew. How many gerbils did you have to shave to do that?
OH I AM SO SURE LIKE HE CAN’T GO BUY HIS OWN SADDLE AND OWNS A LOT OF THEM THAT IS SO DISRESPECTFUL WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!111!!
A saddle is a cool present. Especially handmade leather saddles. Something that is unique and not a dime a dozen, like, I don’t know, an ipod?
Retard.
Racist
sure I am… point it up troll boy…
Look above, what do you have against the retarded? Why do you use that word as an insult, I doubt you are trying to complement me because you’re a mean ass. You have something against the retarded?
Since when do the retarded constitute a race?
You can get an ipod for a dime? Damn, mine was WAY overpriced than. And I didn’t even have footage of myself preloaded on it. I got hosed.
A saddle that’s not fitted to your horse is far more useless than region-bound DVDs, as it will hurt the horse, not just simply “not work”. ;p
The troll thinks it’s a race since it’s all he knows in his extended family… all 250 of them… all with a virtually identical genome and only one set of Great Grand Parents on all 4 lines
bigot
I can stop being a bigot… you, benighted genetically and chromosomally, shall always be an idiot from a tribe of idiots, and will probably spawn more regressive idiots with a close relative…
tribe of idiots, cool!
Only if you want a future as a Carnival side show… I’d recommend a taste for aw chicken…
I’m glad I don’t have to shop for Official Head Of State presents, as I’m sure I’d eff it up a lot worse. However, having actually done a little news-googling as a result of reading all this:
1) Apparently, as noted somewhere above, the Ipod was loaded with both images from her latest trip to the US, and Broadway show tunes.
2) They also gave her a songbook of Rogers & Hart showtunes…signed by Richard Rogers.
3) Apparently, this was after asking advice and learning that she both collects books and loves showtunes…so, in my opinion, not a bad gift.
4) The region issue on the dvds was kind of a boner, though.
5) I noticed that a lot was made in the press over the fact that Brown gave Obama a pen holder made from the wood of a ship used to free slaves…interesting choice. As far as I can tell, since the black side of his family is Kenyan, rather than American, I really doubt there’s any American slaves (freed or otherwise) in his genealogical background. But I don’t see the press ragging on Brown for that.
Yaaaa, I can see Obama looking at the pen and having an Uhhhh moment. I know I would.
The pen was made of the same stuff that his desk is made of, if I’m recalling the news story correctly. The reason Brown isn’t being ragged about it is because choosing a pen made from the same wood as the desk, and having such historical meaning in that way was considered a very thoughtful gift.
Ah, that I could dig.
The desk you’re thinking of is from the HMS Resolute [LINK], an Arctic exploration ship the British crew were forced to abandon when it became trapped in ice. An American crew found it and returned it to Queen Victoria as a gesture of friendship. When she was knackered, some of the Resolute’s timbers were fashioned into a desk that the Queen gave to President Hayes.
So the pen holder? Very minor miss – very minor indeed considering Obama nis not exactly out of touch with the history and condition of blacks in America, at the very least given his wife’s family’s history.
IF they were still in Kenya, then they were loading the tribes they defeated on to slave ships…
Which makes me wonder if there was a prompted subconscious commentary from his ancestors.
“Wait, I recognize this bit of wood… I’ll be damned, we sent this away years ago, why they bringing it back?”
By the way, that iPod also had a collection of Broadway show tunes on it. The Obamas actually bothered to find out that Her Majesty’s listening tastes run to musical theatre rather than more pretentiously highbrow opera or classical.
I like Betty! I’d hug her, too, if she’d let me.
I heard some of the show tunes were from Oklahoma. Must be where someone up thread got confused. *wink*
Such a cute little old lady-I heard she “gave” a hug to mrs Obama.
Not something Her Britannic Majesty does often…
I’m sure it was a horrid inconvenience…
I’m no great monarchist, but I do understand her role in my government, which is more than a lot of colonials do… there again, a lot of colonials don’t understand their government beyond what they’re told to think…
I quite like Her Maj. Not many 20 somethings could face off against Churhhill, and every Prime Minister thereafter…
Eh, no worries from me. I am just taking your previous statement at face value and making a comment based off it. Least she has some nerve, I will give her that and that is to her credit.
Well I would go into my annoyance with inbred inheritance of power but with our government being a frayed half a pubic hair away from an asylum filled with crack addicts and wannabe subgeniuses…. I’ll just hold my tongue.
Thus you don’t understand the role of the Royal Family in a Constitutuional Monarchy…
I’m sure your irritation with my country will keep me awake for seconds…
I think you missed the part where I am more annoyed with my own country than anything with yours. But if you are up those seconds anyway, might as well be thinking of something appropriately terrible, like me naked.
That will chill the blood for those 2 seconds you are kept awake.
naked and aroused…
I pop over here to see the new comments and yours is on eye level. I’m going to be stuck in the mind gutter now. There is NO hope for me. LOL
Ya, there is no hope when people think about me naked. It proceeds the end of the world.
Obviously your Lynn thinks otherwise. Of course when all else fails you can turn out the lights and then all that matters is talent.
It is just proof of her delightful madness.
Coming into this a week later, but just want to say I like her majesty too.
I recall during the Thatcher years she stood up to her on a subject related to race, though I dont recall exactly what. The Queen said she had to consider the whole Commonwealth, not just a tiny bit of the ‘Yew-Kay’
Ha ha I think its a funny caption!
HOLY CRAP BATMAN!! I got a front page!!!
thanks to those who liked it! and to those who didn’t… ah well better luck next time I guess.
It was funny, congrats!!
thank you… thankyouverymuch!
(bowing deeply)
I hear he gives great DVDs. Just make sure you get the right country code.
lol the midget on the middle is a queen? LMAO
i would have that grossed out/fake smile on my face too if i were posing with savages
Charles out-of-shot: I already told you, mum. They aren’t going to “mug” you, they just want a picture! Now put your purse down and stop checking if your rings are still there!