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GEORGE ALEXANDER LOUIS  

spunkycumfun 63M/69F
29519 posts
7/26/2013 10:55 am
GEORGE ALEXANDER LOUIS



Above is Private Eye's cover page, amongst other national newspapers, announcing the news of the 'royal' baby. For those outside the UK, Private Eye is a satirical magazine that takes the piss out of the privileged, the rich and the powerful.

At least the baby was not called William Alexander George, Christopher Oliver Colin Keith, or Charles Ulysses Neville Thomas!

The baby has dominated television and newspapers in the UK and, by the sound of it, in many other countries. Tonight is the first night that the baby was not reported in the BBC news. The BBC is great until it comes to reporting on royalty.

Once in my youth, I was so naive that I thought obituaries were written after someone's death. Now, I know different. There are reams of newspaper articles and hours of television footage just waiting for the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Media coverage of Nelson Mandela's death has already been sorted; he's so inconsiderate not dying by now!

In the rest of my expected lifetime, I will have to read or watch stuff on, in the probable order of death, Prince Philip, David Attenborough, George Bush Sr, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr, Tony Blair and Angela Merkel. At least I won't be around when David Beckham, Justin Bieber and Ant & Dec die. And, at least, David Attenborough did something useful with his life.

Apart from your family and friends, whose death will you mark the most?

foreverfree123 60M
435 posts
7/26/2013 3:20 pm

I don't really know.

I suppose this sounds dreadful, but apart from my IMMEDIATE family ... Mother, Father, Sons, Brother, Sister, Master, ex-husband and two uncles .. I would probably not actually mourn for anybody else.

Friends, I would certainly miss ... as I would other family members ... but not 'overly' so.

Maybe, because I know I will see them again anyway down the track, so it is just like they have gone away for a while, and I put them out of my mind.

I remember what I was doing when I was notified of three specific deaths though ... My grandfather, Elvis, and Lady Di.


FullOn4U 58M
20399 posts
7/27/2013 5:03 am

It'll be a fucking nightmare when Queenie dies! Charleypoos as king? Camilla as queen?

I wonder if Bieber will have the good grace to die eating a cheeseburger sat on the potty


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/29/2013 8:31 am

    Quoting  :

According to polls, the baby has even made the Royal Family more popular!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/29/2013 8:33 am

    Quoting foreverfree123:
    I don't really know.

    I suppose this sounds dreadful, but apart from my IMMEDIATE family ... Mother, Father, Sons, Brother, Sister, Master, ex-husband and two uncles .. I would probably not actually mourn for anybody else.

    Friends, I would certainly miss ... as I would other family members ... but not 'overly' so.

    Maybe, because I know I will see them again anyway down the track, so it is just like they have gone away for a while, and I put them out of my mind.

    I remember what I was doing when I was notified of three specific deaths though ... My grandfather, Elvis, and Lady Di.
The BBC has already spent millions, sending staff over to South Africa, in preparation for Nelson Mandela's death. He's so inconsiderate not dying last week!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/29/2013 8:34 am

    Quoting  :

I hope you will find a way to mark your death!


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/29/2013 8:35 am

    Quoting FullOn4U:
    It'll be a fucking nightmare when Queenie dies! Charleypoos as king? Camilla as queen?

    I wonder if Bieber will have the good grace to die eating a cheeseburger sat on the potty
Justin Bieber probably can't eat a cheeseburger yet. He's only just learnt how to spit at people from a balcony!


lok4fun500 M
51906 posts
7/29/2013 10:31 am

If it has to be "other than family" I would say those that died on 9/11 in New York City. I watched it all happen on CNN. It was a sad day for the "whole world", not just America.


spunkycumfun 63M/69F
41171 posts
7/29/2013 10:34 am

    Quoting lok4fun500:
    If it has to be "other than family" I would say those that died on 9/11 in New York City. I watched it all happen on CNN. It was a sad day for the "whole world", not just America.
Like many, I remember 9/11. Someone came into my office to say a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre. We initially thought it was an accident but we soon realised differently. We were glued to the television news for the rest of the day. One of the defining moments in history!


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