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Hi Symph and FMW
Yes, I hate some of them, dislike others, and don't mind others. I don't really like any of 'em. The culture of monarchy in this country is not to be too close to the people, so i suppose it's hard for them to break away from their advisors when they've been born into it. Diana was an aristocrat but hadn't been brought up in the same rigid way.
FMW - Yes, fair comment. I have done a couple of Lewis Carroll-type sonnets before.
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 17, 2006 at 8:04 AM
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Tony - this was entertaining. For some reason I detected a slight
influence from Lewis Carrol
posted by
FreeManWalking
on November 17, 2006 at 7:37 AM
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I can't stand the Royal family....
the only one I ever liked was princess diana......I tell you what, she will be so proud of her boys!
posted by
_Symphony_
on November 17, 2006 at 6:43 AM
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MC, I'll be in touch re the sonnet stuff.
About Michael Jackson, he calls one of his daughters 'Blanket'. I think it's cause he always used to cover his kids' heads whenever they went out in public!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 17, 2006 at 5:52 AM
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Thanks for those great responses, everyone.
Well, Mneme, life is certainly more interesting with royals than without them, and for that reason anlone, I would retain them. Why expunge such colour from our lives. We don't admire them anymore, well most of them, we just follow their antics with amusement / amazement, etc. They are the number one 'celebs' in a celeb-obsessed world. As for Blair, i don't think he's been too bad, about similar to Clinton in America, well-meaning if not always effective, but he has been ruined by his farcical devotion to George Bush's every whim, even when one suspects that Blair doesn't actually agree, he goes along with it anyway, and that included an illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Iraq which for all their claims about the evils of Saddam, has cost vastly more lives than would have happened under Saddam, has increased Iran's regional power, with the Iranian-backed Shi-ite portion of Iraq's population now able to wield its muscle, with all the ongoing western soldiers' deaths, and the enormous expense being borne by western taxpayers despite their opposition to it. Bit of a rant there, but anyway, as regards life in GB, it's better I suppose if you like history and more variety in weather, i.e. 'barbie' weather only exists from June to September, if you're lucky, and even then, you can't rely on any particular day to be free of rain. But even in GB, they're always moaning that it doesn't rain ENOUGH. Goodness knows how Australia manages for water supply!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 17, 2006 at 5:50 AM
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Tonyzonit,
very clever, and funny. At least with puppet queens no one gets their head chopped off. Not literally anyway, perhaps metaphorically.. I will be sorry to see Blair go but then I'm not living there (which is why my husband and I fight most often).
posted by
mneme
on November 17, 2006 at 4:31 AM
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On topics so morose 
what one cannot give in p(o)rose, as in Absalom and Achitophel by Dryden, and his finest raillery is best seen in the picture of Zimri, Zimri's nature was so unstable that
......in the course of one revolving moon
Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon
Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking
Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on November 17, 2006 at 4:16 AM
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Tony... I think I am just about ready to do a sonnet... watch out!
I must have a go at it, what do you think??? Can you show me the ropes first. I could find out for myself if I could be bothered. Do you follow the rules strictly with scansion and strong accented syllables, sometimes people read them differently and accents do vary, it is not an exact science.
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 17, 2006 at 2:36 AM
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yep the comments are becoming more in depth... it is good to see.
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 17, 2006 at 2:23 AM
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I don't get this? you mean over his pasty white flour dusted face?
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 17, 2006 at 2:04 AM
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No, MC, but Michael Jackson has!
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 17, 2006 at 1:28 AM
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It's getting chilly again, got a blanket?
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 17, 2006 at 1:12 AM
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Very clever!! I look forward to more! --msugatinha
posted by
msugatinha
on November 16, 2006 at 10:46 PM
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by the way, we have our very own "royal" or regal candidate for the
presidency, Segolene Royal. She seems quite nice, but I am not there to vote.
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 16, 2006 at 10:23 PM
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and .... people are also pulling the strings, faster may be, in any case, they are paying as you say, and all they can do is vote with their feet. You describe the queen in quite an endearing way, not so kind on old Tony, another Tony. Next, you might like to write about the "firm" and delve into the Monarchy's darkest secrets...just a thought. (I responded to your very interesting and challenging comment on my poem). It makes me wonder if people actually read my stuff properly, i bet some of them don't, sorry to say this...
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 16, 2006 at 8:12 PM
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very clever, witty and funny.
quite a political satire, I think, i love the way you play the puppet strings, the queen's crown, wobbling. What a funny picture you depict! well done.
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 16, 2006 at 8:08 PM
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Tony, I hear that Bair is doing a Rumsfeld, unresignation", They resigned
him. Long live the Queen!
posted by
Blanche.
on November 16, 2006 at 8:02 PM
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Tony
I have to agree with smartdog. Look at the US. Funny work, made me laugh.
posted by
Alivia
on November 16, 2006 at 7:55 PM
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TonyZ
Seems there are always puppet masters; some we see, some we don't, none of them like to listen us 'common folk.' Fun post.
Be well,
-smartdog
posted by
smartdog_670
on November 16, 2006 at 7:35 PM
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I wonder if the old Queen was even sober when she read it?...
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..you did have fun with it, Tonyz, and it rubbed off..
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posted by
Rumor
on November 16, 2006 at 6:39 PM
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will comment later, got to go teach again...
posted by
marieclaire66
on November 16, 2006 at 6:39 PM
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I've often wondered what the general public thought of the monarchy....
As an outsider looking in it seems a rather useless faction to me (beyond snipping ribbons, and making other dignitaries feel special). Nice poke at the old girl....
posted by
Troosha
on November 16, 2006 at 4:33 PM
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Lesson in living history-how we treat Rulers/Royalty in parliamentary democ
Democracies! It is a good thing that Royal power is checked by the Constituional Monarchy in UK, right? But I had as much fun as u had in writing...because Blair is not the best that Labor tradition had to ogffer the world. The Brits and Americans do elect leaders for all the world, u know. Nowadays if UK sneezes, the third world catches a cold! shalom
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on November 16, 2006 at 4:06 PM
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Cigars are OK. Bill Clinton liked 'em, I believe.
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 16, 2006 at 3:09 PM
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Personally, I'm not looking forward to Brown.
If he walks in to the job as they all suggest, I don't think the voters will give him anything like Blair's margins of victory. He might even lose. And he can't even breathe properly. Never shuts his mouth.
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 16, 2006 at 3:08 PM
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It'd have to be cigars in this house. Nice ones. We don't smoke, you see.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on November 16, 2006 at 3:08 PM
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Just wined, not dined?
Ooh, that's the worst innit? Specially when fags are added.
posted by
Antonionioni
on November 16, 2006 at 3:07 PM
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Tony, what about Gordon?
The string-puller of the puppet-PM pulling the puppet-queen's strings.
A play within a play within a play. Politics can be interesting sometimes, particular when it runs so perfectly to a Shakespearean drama.
Great work, as ever. I am slightly wined this evening.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on November 16, 2006 at 3:01 PM
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anything you write so well
posted by
star4sky5
on November 16, 2006 at 1:02 PM
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