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gamahuche11 months, 3 weeks ago

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I'll get back to you with the directions, CRY!!
I definitely had enough beer laid in for your whole crew and I'm a bit worried about whether I'll be able to finish it all by myself. The dogs will help of course..
Now I'm all set here at home - it looks like there are at least a couple of hundred people there in Washington..
Now my problem is how to watch and chat at the same time..
It seemed like a piece of cake in theory but...
I can say that this is the first time I've been as excited about a political event since the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952.

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  CRYMTYPHON11 months, 3 weeks ago
  
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  Well, I like ocean liners too but I can't see that wacking a big ship with a champaign bottle is the same as inaugurating a decent prez for god's sake.
  
  That's just one crymtyphon's opinion, of course, and there may be others although
  not as good naturaly.
  
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    Beau789011 months, 3 weeks ago
    
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    They whacked Queen Elizabeth with a champagne bottle?!?
    
    Is that why she waves that way and is never amused?
    
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      CRYMTYPHON11 months, 3 weeks ago
      
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      Nah they all do that.
      
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      gamahuche11 months, 3 weeks ago
      
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      I think he meant the eponymous ocean liner..
      And it was Queen Victoria who was not amused!
      A very different character and a very different time!
      Well now the ceremony's done and I do have to say that the Queen's Coronation WAS more fun.. :(
      Even though I scarcely saw it.
      It was the first time I'd ever seen TV - and coundn't see it properly and complained bitterly about it
      It turned out that I needed glasses.
      HOWEVER - too big and marvellous to miss was Queen Salote of Tonga, larger than life in every way, who insisted on riding wothe her carriage open though it was pouring with rain and while everyone else was virtually invisible her beauty and smile overflowed - it brings a tear to my eye to think of it now.
      This event I don't think will carry the same level of emotion.
      It seemed more about restraint, for the most part.
      Obama was fine and even when he fluffed a line it made a virtue of the whole scenario,
      Feinstein was good and enthusiastically convincing; the blots on my card were the Reverend and the "poet" whose contributionwas way down on the minus scale.
      GWB looked sad. Almost enough to raise a feeling of sympathy.
      Will the people who were there remember it as a highlight of their lives?
      By and large I would think not BUT that would undoubtedly change IF Obama can succeed in rescuing the US.
      I was surprised how very concensual opinions were about what very deep do-do the US is in.
      The tendency in Olde England would have been to keep a very stiff upper-lip and not let on at all.
      I'm not in touch enough with the new England enough to really sense how it feels there, only having spent a few days there now and then in the last 20 years.
      
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        CRYMTYPHON11 months, 3 weeks ago
        
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        Oh well.
        
        It is hard for events of moment, to compete with the recollections of childhood.
        
        England is still there; ruling the waves, not being slaves,
        the royals misbehave while the Peers conclave and ravens croak on Arthur's grave, burma shave.
        
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        gamahuche11 months, 3 weeks ago
        
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        Well it WAS a more cheerful moment in time, though England - and all of Europe - was still recovering from the 2nd WW and I was recovering from having been transhipped from my Czech homeland into this strange environment.
        There was a strong sense for honest and respectable behaviour which seems to have completely vanished in a morass of corporate greed and street anarchy.
        Mostly hearsay, I admit, but Prague has been plagued by British stag parties which are totally out of control.They seem to be moving on to cheaper places now, praise be.
        
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        Progressive11 months, 3 weeks ago
        
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        ...spoken like a brave knave.
        
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