tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post6690225164690251612..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: "Counterrevolutionary" is one word.Frescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-50719463672851959952008-08-26T20:50:00.000-05:002008-08-26T20:50:00.000-05:00P.S. Hi, Bink!Yeah, our leaders may have dictatori...P.S. Hi, Bink!<BR/>Yeah, our leaders may have dictatorial tendencies, but god forbid we should have a monarch!!!<BR/>That would be w-r-o-n-g.<BR/><BR/>Elected? I'm a little unsure about if he was elected too (at least in 2000)...Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-51043659241240515972008-08-26T20:48:00.000-05:002008-08-26T20:48:00.000-05:00Actually, the American colonists were split by thi...Actually, the American colonists were split by thirds, I gather, about getting rid of the king. (One third didn't care, being more worried, I suppose, about what to eat?)<BR/><BR/>Of course, we didn't hear that when we were kids--every colonist was, we were taught, rah-rah for violent revolution.<BR/>(Some things never change.)<BR/><BR/>I have never heard an American debate monarchy. It's simply never questioned, that I know of.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-68701952662873394322008-08-26T20:38:00.000-05:002008-08-26T20:38:00.000-05:00We do however seem to have a president...or is tha...We do however seem to have a president...or is that vice-president?...who's a little unclear if he was elected or crowned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-82496321113823043772008-08-26T20:30:00.000-05:002008-08-26T20:30:00.000-05:00We actually call it Llanfair PG...saves time...Wel...We actually call it Llanfair PG...saves time...<BR/><BR/>Well, I support the constitutional monarchy because then we cant have any of our mostly appalling politicians as head of state...so the Prime Minister cant declare war, impose a constitution etc. <BR/><BR/>It doesnt stop them from being buffoons, but it slows them up a bit.<BR/><BR/>Its hard or indeed impossible to be a monarchist in the US, I would have thought... You all seemed to come out against it, as I recall...not like those nice folks in Canada...ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15347076050510425951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-21034554402159000362008-08-26T19:51:00.000-05:002008-08-26T19:51:00.000-05:00You could abbreviate it "Sili-o-gogo".Monarchists?...You could abbreviate it "Sili-o-gogo".<BR/><BR/>Monarchists? Here where I live, if you said you were one, people would think you study big orange and black butterflies.Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-32310148918669510302008-08-26T14:07:00.000-05:002008-08-26T14:07:00.000-05:00Yes, of course! isnt everyone a Monarchist? But A...Yes, of course! isnt everyone a Monarchist? But Antidisestablishmentarianism means being part of a movement, and I was christened a Catholic, for my sins (ho ho!...sigh...) so if anything, I should be Anti - Antidisestablishmentarionaism.<BR/><BR/>Just teasing about the, erm, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, I'm just fascinated by those wonderful long words...my job sometimes takes me to a town in Anglesey, North Wales called, in all seriousness, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Just to baffle the English, I think. <BR/><BR/>When corresponding, I get someone else to address the envelope...ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15347076050510425951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-44591765257925851572008-08-26T13:54:00.000-05:002008-08-26T13:54:00.000-05:00P.S. I hope your pneumo-whatsit clears up soon. Yo...P.S. I hope your pneumo-whatsit clears up soon. You must not have drunk enough Scotch on Loch Ness...Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-62186724305784110802008-08-26T13:53:00.000-05:002008-08-26T13:53:00.000-05:00Whoops--I left off the "-ism" didn't I?I would ONL...Whoops--I left off the "-ism" didn't I?<BR/><BR/>I would ONLY have a formal opinion on this particular point if I were a citizen of the UK.<BR/><BR/>Unofficially, as a fan of the separation of Church and State, Checks and Balances, Nick and Nora, I would be a *pro*disestablishmentarian. Is that a word?<BR/><BR/>But Manfred, I gathered you were a monarchist? Wouldn't that make you antidisestablishment-y-ish?<BR/>(You know, this is all foggy to us Yanks--the word isn't even in my Webster's--so forgive if I've offended.)Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-12867212519703276272008-08-26T13:40:00.000-05:002008-08-26T13:40:00.000-05:00Antidisestablishmentarianism? So you are (cough) a...Antidisestablishmentarianism? So you are (cough) against the movement to remove the primacy of the Anglican Church in the United Kingdom? <BR/><BR/>Were I not suffering from Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, I would argue the point...ooooooooooooooooooooooooooohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15347076050510425951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-6437920690728387812008-08-26T12:16:00.000-05:002008-08-26T12:16:00.000-05:00antidisestablishmentarian: )antidisestablishmentarian<BR/>: )Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-82104251928731895992008-08-26T08:40:00.000-05:002008-08-26T08:40:00.000-05:00counterrrrrrevolutionarycounterrrrrrevolutionarymomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149328149132703479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-44043448787644465812008-08-25T13:50:00.000-05:002008-08-25T13:50:00.000-05:00I would SO hyphenate that bad boy. Sheer instinct...I would SO hyphenate that bad boy. Sheer instinct. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com