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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: Happy Birthday to Queen Elizabeth II |
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The British Queen celebrates her 80th birthday today!
Happy Birthday, Ma'am!!! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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This is how I'll remember her, from the days of my youth:
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JLarter
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Raise a glass to Queen and Country |
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trigger123
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
Location: TALKING TO STRANGERS, IN A BETTER PLACE
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:33 am Post subject: |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MA'AM!
God bless the Queen! |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| Regicide is the only way out. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Is that the official or real birthday? |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Official.
Her real birthday is 21st April. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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So with two birthdays a year, she's really 160? 
This is the Monarch's birthday I think: falls in June as there's a 50% chance of decent weather for all the parades and stuff. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
So with two birthdays a year, she's really 160?
This is the Monarch's birthday I think: falls in June as there's a 50% chance of decent weather for all the parades and stuff. |
She is looking very well for someone 160 years old!!! :p |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Indeed, she's holding up well, but her mother lived to be 101. And she was, apparently, rather fond of gin. But my favorite royal is HM King Buhimbol (sp) of Thailand. 60 years on the throne this year, the longest reigning monarch of those still active. Born in the USA, speaks four or five languages, former race-car driver, jazz composer and clarinetist, the man is almost hip. Lizzie, by comparison, comes off as rather stodgy. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Indeed, she's holding up well, but her mother lived to be 101. And she was, apparently, rather fond of gin. But my favorite royal is HM King Buhimbol (sp) of Thailand. 60 years on the throne this year, the longest reigning monarch of those still active. Born in the USA, speaks four or five languages, former race-car driver, jazz composer and clarinetist, the man is almost hip. Lizzie, by comparison, comes off as rather stodgy. |
I prefer calling it prim and proper..........  |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:00 am Post subject: |
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Happy Birthday Lizzy
Hope u didn't fall off your horse this year  |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:35 am Post subject: |
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So no one's got the stones to come in here and slag the Queen off? Hopeless!!!  |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| So no one's got the stones to come in here and slag the Queen off? Hopeless!!! |
Oh, I wouldn't call myself a nationalist, but I think it's wrong that sovereign states such as Canada and Australia put the likenesses of a foreign citizen on their currency, purportedly in the name of tradition.
What's worse is that anyone who wants works for the federal government, serve in the RCMP, or the Canadian Forces, must perform an act of sedition by pledging alligience to her and her family. Yes, in Canada when you join the armed forces you don't pledge to protect your country and its citizens. You pledge to protect the queen and her family. When you become a lawyer or a cop, you pledge to enforce her laws despite the fact she gave up her constitutional rights a quarter of a century ago. The law that requires such dissention of Canadians probably wouldn't be in the books anymore if it wasn't for the fact that some people still have the mindset of colonialists. They take sick pleasure in the fact that French and Native Canadians dislike pledging alligience to the queen. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Well the brits celebrated it back on June 3rd... but I'll raise my glass againl. |
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