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Location: SE Michigan | Queen Elizabeth II met four of Britain's most famous guitarists Tuesday, asking them: "And what do you do?"
Brian May, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jeff Beck were all guests at a Buckingham Palace party to honor the British music industry.
"It's great to meet her and it doesn't matter at all that she did not know who we are or what we do," Clapton said. "I wouldn't expect her to."
I am not sure whether or not I like it that the Queen doesn't know these guys. Maybe it's a good thing. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | She might think that Brian May was being a bit cheeky with his band. |
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Location: NJ | It must really suck to be living in a land headed by a pompous, arrogant, empty-headed, clueless monarch . . .
Hey!! . . . WAIT a minute! . . . . . |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Your so much better at that than I am. |
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Location: England | Hey, just so u guys know an english opinion:
the queens views are almost always dismissed so i wouldn't worry. she isn't exactlty the most popular person in england anymore,
frankly i can't stand the queen and despise all that the royal family stand for. this world should be equal and they represent a pyramid of facism. please feel more than free to totally slate the monarchy of my country!!!!
well now i've got that out of my system i've just time to say how much i admire jimmy pages amazing playing. but since i've heard Zep's songs backwards i can't listen to them without freaking out!
lots of love
matty |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...I'm surprised Eric didn't respond: "I play guitar, uh, and what do you do?" ;) |
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Location: NJ | . . . be better to ask that of Prince Phillip. |
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Location: England | ah phillip. he walks into a foreign country, insults everyone and leaves.
love matty |
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Location: NJ | yeah, we got one o'them too . . . |
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Location: hatzic lake, bc, canada. | Hey guy's just so you know another Englishmans opinion.The opinion that bluebuddha holds is not as widely held as he might have you believe.As an Englishman there are not that many things to feel proud of nowadays[clueless morons that invite the world to slate my Queen being one of them].His opinion may have had some validity had he just kept it to certain members of Royalty,but the Queen is held in high regard by millions of people around the world.Just had to get that out of MY system. |
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Location: England | i would have a little more respect for our queen if she had done anything for the world recently. like donations for the tsunami effort?
and dude shes even boycoting her own sons wedding! |
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Location: hatzic lake, bc, canada. | dude.....LOL... |
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Location: SE Michigan | just to let you know, as an American I think Queen Elizibeth is very respectable and dignified. A lot more so than G.W.Bush anyway. It must be a tough job she has. Like I alluded at the top of this topic, I think it is appropriate she doesnt know these guys.
BUT, that being said, why is she Knighting guys like Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Mic Jagger? I can maybe see a respectable side to Paul McCartney, but Jagger? Come on! Don't you have to slay dragons or risk you life or do something of uncommon valor to be Knighted? Maybe I dont understand the whole concept.
I think if I were a Knighted British war hero and the Queen Knighted an moral miscreant like Jagger, I'd give my title back. |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Brian May was introduced to the Queen, who asked " And what do you do". He replied that he was the one who played the National Anthem on the roof of Buckingham Palace for the 2002 Jubilee. "Oh", she said, "that was you was it".
Good briefing from he people.
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Location: England | don't worry. alot of respected public figures turn down their oppourtunity to get knighted probably out of respect for those who truely earned theirs. all the dragons have been slayed now. we all live in castles and drink tea with the vicar :p
theres a few friendly dragons and they're kept as pets by alan titchmarsh and Tom Jones. he was recently spotted knighting his dragon too |
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Location: hatzic lake, bc, canada. | Three more post and you wont be known as junior anymore. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ..
.and then She drubs Gilligan....oh....well...Bill
Drubbing |
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Location: Midland, MI | All I have to say about this is:
God save the Queen
And her fascist regime
It made you a moron
A potential H bomb
God save the queen
She ain’t no human being
There is no future
In england’s dreaming
Don’t be told what you want
Don’t be told what you need
There’s no future no future
No future for you
God save the queen
We mean it man (God save window leen)
We love our queen
God saves (God save... human beings)
God save the queen 'cause tourists are money
And our figurehead is not what she seems
Oh God save history God save your mad parade
Oh lord God have mercy all crimes are paid
When there’s no future how can there be sin
We’re the flowers in the dustbin
We’re the poison in your human machine
We’re the future your future
God save the queen
We mean it man
There is no futur
In England’s dreaming
No future for you no future for me
No future no future for you |
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Location: Upper Left USA | For Mr. Chapman, re: Gilligan vs. Gates:
I don't think so Tim!"
But all can decide for themselves. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ....Gilligan and Mrs. Howell?? |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | That's It Cuz!! :D |
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Location: Midland, MI | MaryAnn. Ginger was too worldly. Mrs. Howell was high maintenance. Maybe we need a poll. :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | That does bait an age old question.
A: Mary Anne during the daytime and Ginger at night! Attitude is everything! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Finally this is moving to a higher ground. And it's good to see that at least three of them were good guitarists. |
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Location: south east Michigan | "three of them were good guitarists."
Now you have me guessing which three you mean. |
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Location: Converse, Texas | That's Bill Gates and Mrs. Howell, isn't it? |
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Location: Corvallis, OR | Hi
Yes,Bill Gates sort of resembles the castaway.
However, Bill Gates appears to be the IDENTICAL twin of Sterling Holloway, an actor who supplied Walt Disney voices, also Winnie the Pooh episodes, and also first appeared in black and white movies of the '4o's.
I have not searched the WEB, but there must be some photos of him out there. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Like they said in the "70's"...
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Oh, bother
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Location: NJ | He also often played the "professor/scientist" on various episodes of the old "Superman" (George Reeves) TV show . . .
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Boy he really gets around. |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | Originally posted by cwk2:
Boy he really gets around. I remember seeing him in a 1930's W.C.Fields movie, as a dancer! Contained one of my favorite Fields lines:
Woman companion sitting in car with Fields and squirming : I'm sitting on something.
Fields : I lost mine in the stock market!
Woman : I mean it, I'm sitting on something.
They both look under the seat to find a female cat with a litter of newly born, different colored kittens.
Woman : Gee, I wonder what the father was?
Fields : Careless my dear. Very careless |
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Queen Elizibeth: "And what do you do?"