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Title: Harry to Marry
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 27 November, 2017, 10:39:44 am
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15685702.Prince_Harry_to_marry_American_girlfriend_Meghan_Markle/
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Torslanda on 27 November, 2017, 10:41:26 am
<Grumpy Bastard> Whoopie-fucking-doo </Grumpy Bastard>
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 27 November, 2017, 10:48:01 am
<Grumpy Bastard> Whoopie-fucking-doo </Grumpy Bastard>

I knew that would happen.

But look on the bright side, she may be a US-divorcee but he's not next in line.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2017, 10:58:06 am
Also, she's not been shagging the Nazi Foreign Minister.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: andrewc on 27 November, 2017, 11:02:47 am
I've heard some total horror stories about people marrying forrins & then finding their partner can't legally stay in the country.  Isn't there something about a minimum income requirement as well ?  Oh well, if she needs a good immigration lawyer we know who to recommend..... ;)
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Basil on 27 November, 2017, 11:04:23 am
Afro Caribbean Irish.   :thumbsup:
That'll perk up that family of dullards.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2017, 11:13:37 am
To be fair, James Hewitt is Northern Irish.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 27 November, 2017, 11:49:44 am
I've heard some total horror stories about people marrying forrins & then finding their partner can't legally stay in the country.  Isn't there something about a minimum income requirement as well ?  Oh well, if she needs a good immigration lawyer we know who to recommend..... ;)
She's rich in her own right.

At least she won't be another parasite, living off the tax payer.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Kim on 27 November, 2017, 12:01:31 pm
Will there be a YACF camping weekend?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: pcolbeck on 27 November, 2017, 12:33:44 pm
A fair bit of rumpus on Twitter and some of the press because she is shock horror divorced and Harry's Gran is head of the CoE. To which the appropriate reply seems to be Brendan Behan's little verse:

Don't talk of your alien ministers
Whose religion without meaning or faith
Because the corner stone of your temple
Is the bollocks of Henry the eighth
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 November, 2017, 12:42:25 pm
Will there be a YACF camping weekend?
Do we have a date?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: IanDG on 27 November, 2017, 12:45:31 pm
I thought he already was  ;D

(https://hitberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/meet-harry-hill-comedian-tv-show-host-and-husband-to-artist-magda-archer-whom-he-has-been-married-to-for-a-long-time.jpg)
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: mattc on 27 November, 2017, 12:49:48 pm
Rachel* has a slightly odd Wikipedia page. It says

Years active   2002–present

what does that mean??


*That is her real name, apparently - it's far better, far more appropriate for a Royal than "Meghan". bleagh
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Wowbagger on 27 November, 2017, 01:25:55 pm
Is "Meghan" pronounced "Meffan", "Meean", "Megan" or something else altogether?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: pcolbeck on 27 November, 2017, 01:29:19 pm
Rachel* has a slightly odd Wikipedia page. It says

Years active   2002–present

what does that mean??

They always have that for actors. It means the years that they have been working ie from their first appearance on TV, stage or film.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Pedal Castro on 27 November, 2017, 01:59:36 pm
An actress!

Mrs PC's grandfather was cut out of his father's will because he married and actress/model, not only that, the will stated that should any of his siblings give him anything they would lose their future inheritance when their mother died.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: ian on 27 November, 2017, 02:05:56 pm
Wow, some people I don't know are getting married. That's never happened before.

Let's hope that some rentaplod don't have to kick down their door in a few years because her immigration papers aren't in order.

I'm sure our anti-immigrant tabloids are fuming!
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: PaulF on 27 November, 2017, 02:57:37 pm
Is "Meghan" pronounced "Meffan", "Meean", "Megan" or something else altogether?

It's "Meghan"

HTH ;D
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2017, 03:23:06 pm
It may be a bit like Chardonnai or Keirra - deliberate alternative spelling to try and make the child different.

Trouble is, Meghan will now become the canonical spelling, in the same way that Mr and Mrs Knightley's alternative spelling of the well-established "Kiera" changed the way it is now usually spelt.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Canardly on 27 November, 2017, 03:35:01 pm
Will there be a YACF camping weekend?

Just to be clear, another 'not the royal wedding' week end?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: ian on 27 November, 2017, 04:12:10 pm
It may be a bit like Chardonnai or Keirra - deliberate alternative spelling to try and make the child different.

Trouble is, Meghan will now become the canonical spelling, in the same way that Mr and Mrs Knightley's alternative spelling of the well-established "Kiera" changed the way it is now usually spelt.

There's lots of alternate name spellings in the US (no shortage in the UK, for that matter). Alison, Allison, Alyson, etc. The world won't end, least not till the titanic end battle between the cycloptic Ians and dioptic Iains.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 27 November, 2017, 04:16:45 pm
I have to say I am very disappointed at the reactions on here.

Whilst I didn't expect celebratory endurance rides ending in wild street parties a bit of mild euphoria, taking our minds off the problems of the day would have been nice. >:(

Oh well, there's time to get the dust off The Mug.

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Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 November, 2017, 04:17:27 pm
According to HIGNFY, ee-uns of any spelling are an endangered species.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: bobb on 27 November, 2017, 04:23:19 pm
There was a girl at my primary school called Meaghan. I wonder where she is now? Probably fending off twats on the interwebs telling her that her name is wrong....

Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 27 November, 2017, 04:33:19 pm
Rather comical to see that DUP leader Arlene Foster (i.e. royal arselick of the highest order) firstly congratulated the wrong prince, and then after correcting that she spelt Meghan’s name wrong.

I imagine it will go all quiet once she realises that Meghan is Catholic.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: ian on 27 November, 2017, 05:03:21 pm
According to HIGNFY, ee-uns of any spelling are an endangered species.

That's because foreigns can't say it.

Mind you, they do a better job of it than Siobhan, Niamh, or (for bonus points) Meadhbh. Admittedly, the latter has given up and writes the Anglicized version.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: PeteB99 on 27 November, 2017, 05:08:51 pm
Rather comical to see that DUP leader Arlene Foster (i.e. royal arselick of the highest order) firstly congratulated the wrong prince, and then after correcting that she spelt Meghan’s name wrong.

I imagine it will go all quiet once she realises that Meghan is Catholic.

Won't that screw up Harrys chances of becoming King?

Assuming he managed to eliminate enough of his rellies to get to next in line anyway.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: mattc on 27 November, 2017, 05:14:09 pm
Looking at recent pictures of this commoner, I thought she looked familiar ...

Turns out the media noticed this a long time ago. Some have called her the Lost 3rd Middleton Sister:
(https://us.hellomagazine.com/images/stories/1/2016/11/11/000/281/478/gallery_5_3.jpg)

At least Harry and Wills know what they like!
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 27 November, 2017, 05:19:03 pm
Rather comical to see that DUP leader Arlene Foster (i.e. royal arselick of the highest order) firstly congratulated the wrong prince, and then after correcting that she spelt Meghan’s name wrong.

I imagine it will go all quiet once she realises that Meghan is Catholic.

Won't that screw up Harrys chances of becoming King?

No, there was a rule change a few years ago - Harry can still become king, but Meghan will be called Queen Harry.

Or something like that.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2017, 05:40:13 pm
There's a lot of column inches being wasted on the fact that Ms Markle is mixed-race.  Firstly, who cares and secondly, who even noticed?

P.S. Bastards! No day off! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42138938
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: ian on 27 November, 2017, 05:55:28 pm
Immigrant and a bit, well, you know, dusky? It's no wonder the Daily Mail has had to let Hatey Katie go.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2017, 06:03:53 pm
Yes, they picked a good day to bury* that particular piece of news.

*hopefully at a crossroads, with a stake through it
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 November, 2017, 06:11:17 pm
According to HIGNFY, ee-uns of any spelling are an endangered species.

That's because foreigns can't say it.


We got so used to FOREIGNS pronouncing the forename of my grate frend Mr Sheen wrong that even BRITONS now call him "Yan".
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Ben T on 27 November, 2017, 06:34:42 pm
When's the bank holiday?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: LEE on 27 November, 2017, 06:53:03 pm
There's a lot of column inches being wasted on the fact that Ms Markle is mixed-race.  Firstly, who cares and secondly, who even noticed?

Firstly - The Daily Mail ?

Secondly - The Daily Mail ?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 November, 2017, 06:53:37 pm
Surprisingly, no-one vox-popped by the BBC has yet said "so fucking what?"

Standards are slipping.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Basil on 27 November, 2017, 06:57:56 pm
Surprisingly, no-one vox-popped by the BBC has yet said "so fucking what?"

Standards are slipping.

Probably loads did, they just don't broadcast those.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Polar Bear on 27 November, 2017, 07:14:45 pm
Will there be a YACF camping weekend?

Just to be clear, another 'not the royal wedding' week end?

I could be persuaded to adjust the timing of the early season Long Itch caper to coincide but I fear that Long Itch is royalist country.   

Let's get a date first then mull it over.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: andrewc on 27 November, 2017, 07:23:21 pm
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/successful-actress-meghan-markle-to-wed-former-soldier-150733
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Ian H on 27 November, 2017, 09:03:48 pm
According to HIGNFY, ee-uns of any spelling are an endangered species.

That's because foreigns can't say it.


We got so used to FOREIGNS pronouncing the forename of my grate frend Mr Sheen wrong that even BRITONS now call him "Yan".

Both a very lancastrian (now late) great-aunt, and the very French M. Leon greeted me as 'EYE-an'.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2017, 09:37:20 pm
Incredibly, they're inbreeding as usual!

http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/27/lets-not-forget-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-are-actually-cousins-7111639/
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: ian on 27 November, 2017, 09:52:22 pm
Yes, but if you go back much beyond 800 years everyone (European, at least) is pretty much related.

Or 80 years in Swindon.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Peter on 27 November, 2017, 10:00:00 pm
According to HIGNFY, ee-uns of any spelling are an endangered species.

That's because foreigns can't say it.

Mind you, they do a better job of it than Siobhan, Niamh, or (for bonus points) Meadhbh. Admittedly, the latter has given up and writes the Anglicized version.

I teach a group of primary school chidren which includes a Niamh and a Neve, referred to by me as the Niamh (or Neve ) twins. 
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2017, 10:02:58 pm
I'll admit there is a "Swindon face" you see a lot.

Anyway, back on topic, why did we get a day off for Princess Anne's doomed first marriage and not for this one?  I mean, Harry is the cheeky Ron Weasley of the Windsors while Anne is just the dull horsey one.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: ian on 27 November, 2017, 10:05:02 pm
Tbh, I wouldn't have got Meadhbh on the grounds it looks less of a name and more like a cat stepped on your keyboard.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Peter on 27 November, 2017, 10:08:55 pm
Incredibly, they're inbreeding as usual!

http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/27/lets-not-forget-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-are-actually-cousins-7111639/

I love the "let's not forget" headline, as if anybody already knew.  I was born in County Durham, only a few miles from Streatlam and I'd never heard of the Royal Family or America until I moved to Lancashire as an adult.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Kim on 28 November, 2017, 12:43:12 am
Incredibly, they're inbreeding as usual!

http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/27/lets-not-forget-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-are-actually-cousins-7111639/

I love the "let's not forget" headline, as if anybody already knew.  I was born in County Durham, only a few miles from Streatlam and I'd never heard of the Royal Family or America until I moved to Lancashire as an adult.

POTD :)
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Pedaldog. on 28 November, 2017, 01:02:27 am
's Prolly pronounced "Magrat"?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Jaded on 28 November, 2017, 08:55:19 am
She was second in line to the thrown at the time. Harry is fifth, going on sixth just now.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Beardy on 28 November, 2017, 09:19:21 am
And the first of the Windsor siblings to get married. And it was the first Royal Wedding for quite a while before it.

It's a bit of a dysfunctional family though, on one of the siblings is still married to their first spouse
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Torslanda on 28 November, 2017, 09:22:14 am
I think they're aliens. Grebulons . . .
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: ian on 28 November, 2017, 09:33:30 am
I was watching some crap on Netflix last night while my dinner cooked. Anyway, some weird US end-of-the-worlder, you know the type, with a bad itch for the end times, had calculated that the name 'Prince Charles of Wales' added up to 666. Which means he's a the anti-christ. If you don't believe that, which would be foolish, note that the flag of Wales includes a big dragon that looks, you know, a bit like a demon (or would, if you didn't know what a dragon was). Argue with that if you dare. It's not because they're lizards, that is so patently ludicrous.

I've no idea what Prince Harry of Wherever adds up to.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Beardy on 28 November, 2017, 09:51:18 am
Isn't his given name Henry so you'd have to use that for adding up wouldn't you. Or would you have to use Henry to be known as Harry? I clearly don't know the rules of this adding up malarkey
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 November, 2017, 10:07:43 am
Meanwhile, Martin Rowson is on top form.

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d61dded373bf17193391630c1d1b38fd57c146c7/0_0_4851_3338/master/4851.jpg?w=940&q=20&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&dpr=2&s=48e7582e60f1d5f29ec1d6e4d5867484)
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 28 November, 2017, 10:32:09 am
Isn't his given name Henry so you'd have to use that for adding up wouldn't you. Or would you have to use Henry to be known as Harry? I clearly don't know the rules of this adding up malarkey

You just have to keep trying until you get to the number you first thought of.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2017, 10:40:07 am
Anyway, this is his name:

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

What does that add up to?  A hill of beans?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Jaded on 28 November, 2017, 10:44:06 am
Anyway, this is his name:

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

What does that add up to?  A hill of beans?

I think it is actually His Royal Higness Prince Henry of Wales

At least it was a few weeks ago when he was at a function I was at.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2017, 10:45:30 am
I was referring to ian's post on numerology, which references Charlie boy as The Beast (or summat)
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 November, 2017, 11:33:52 am
She was second in line to the thrown at the time. Harry is fifth, going on sixth just now.

Surely she was fourth, on account of having three brothers?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: ian on 28 November, 2017, 11:37:43 am
I was referring to ian's post on numerology, which references Charlie boy as The Beast (or summat)

I wouldn't mind so much, but I'm pretty sure he's never called 'Prince Charles of Wales' not even in Hebrew.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 November, 2017, 11:40:01 am
She was second in line to the thrown at the time. Harry is fifth, going on sixth just now.

Surely she was fourth, on account of having three brothers?
IRTA "second in line to be thrown". Which could mean all sorts of things!
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Wowbagger on 28 November, 2017, 11:46:14 am
Anyway, this is his name:

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

What does that add up to?  A hill of beans?

I think it is actually His Royal Higness Prince Henry of Wales

At least it was a few weeks ago when he was at a function I was at.

Did he ask for your autograph?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Beardy on 28 November, 2017, 11:56:07 am
I was referring to ian's post on numerology, which references Charlie boy as The Beast (or summat)

I wouldn't mind so much, but I'm pretty sure he's never called 'Prince Charles of Wales' not even in Hebrew.
I think his official moniker is 'HRH Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales' But I CBA to go and check it.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: PeteB99 on 28 November, 2017, 11:58:47 am
How many unemployed ex soldiers are allowed to just import their new foreign wife into the UK?

Isn't this a case of an immigrant taking a job that should go to an unemployed british woman?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: madcow on 28 November, 2017, 12:48:05 pm
... why did we get a day off for Princess Anne's doomed first marriage ...?

November 14th, 1973: Princess Anne's wedding, Prince Charles' birthday and the day I bought my Jedson Les Paul guitar from Selmer's in Charing Cross Road, London, for £72 new, because we had the day off school.

You must have been rich then! That was 2 weeks wages when I started work in 1978!

Anyway as a paid up ginga ninja ,I have to thank Wales,H. for unblocking the stigma of gingerism.
He has made the beard that looks like a rusty brillo pad almost cool  and he's bagged a good looker as well, albeit a pre-owned model.

He needs to know how much we have suffered to have got this far.
All those years of "Oi,carrot top", "Ginge" "Copperknob"  etc etc. - my how we ached at the humorous banter.
When it was declared off limits to make jokes about skin colour, religion or sexual orientation , gingerism was the only form of abuse that was not legislated for.
So for Harry to get hitched to someone from off the telly has raised the bar on what gingers can achieve.
However, somewhere in the background is Mrs. Merton -"So Meghan , what was it that attracted you to a member of the Royal family?"
I rest my case.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: hellymedic on 28 November, 2017, 01:47:03 pm
... why did we get a day off for Princess Anne's doomed first marriage ...?

November 14th, 1973: Princess Anne's wedding, Prince Charles' birthday and the day I bought my Jedson Les Paul guitar from Selmer's in Charing Cross Road, London, for £72 new, because we had the day off school.

I dashed to the local watch shop and bought myself a big Timex 'boy's' watch, so I had a watch for my English Language 'O' Level the following Monday.
Managed to return in time to watch proceedings on next-door neighbour's1 colour television.

1) Revd Roger L Roberts, Chaplain to HM The Queen, Chapel of The Savoy. Erstwhile Master at Oundle School.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Jaded on 28 November, 2017, 01:58:45 pm
Anyway, this is his name:

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

What does that add up to?  A hill of beans?

I think it is actually His Royal Higness Prince Henry of Wales

At least it was a few weeks ago when he was at a function I was at.

Did he ask for your autograph?

No, he asked for yours.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 28 November, 2017, 03:39:51 pm
Quote from: madcow link=topic=105894.msg2231169#msg2231169

He needs to know how much we have suffered to have got this far.
All those years of "Oi,carrot top", "Ginge" "Copperknob"  etc etc. - my how we ached at the humorous banter.
When it was declared off limits to make jokes about skin colour, religion or sexual orientation , gingerism was the only form of abuse that was not legislated for.
So for Harry to get hitched to someone from off the telly has raised the bar on what gingers can achieve.
However, somewhere in the background is Mrs. Merton -"So Meghan , what was it that attracted you to a member of the Royal family?"
I rest my case.
Who cares what you think, Duracell?  ;)

The most ginger kid in our class was called Ferret, even by the teachers.  He was actually very popular.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Polar Bear on 28 November, 2017, 03:45:02 pm
Will there be a YACF camping weekend?

Just to be clear, another 'not the royal wedding' week end?

I could be persuaded to adjust the timing of the early season Long Itch caper to coincide but I fear that Long Itch is royalist country.   

Let's get a date first then mull it over.

So, we know now that it is in May.    If it is a weekend or a Friday do folk want a 'Not the Royal Wedding Love In' weekend then?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: madcow on 28 November, 2017, 03:45:17 pm
Hey Roger, Duracell eh!
Step outside and meet my two mates ,Ben (Sledgehammer) Stokes and Johnny (Headbutt) Bairstow.
Ginja ninja warrior class of '17.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Tom B on 28 November, 2017, 04:14:17 pm
The announcement is putting mental health services under even more pressure (http://newsthump.com/2017/11/28/psychiatric-wards-overwhelmed-as-daily-mail-readers-try-to-like-brown-skinned-immigrant/)
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 29 November, 2017, 08:37:38 am
I liked one announcement
Quote
Successful actress, humanitarian and anti-slavery campaigner to marry ex-squaddie.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Hot Flatus on 29 November, 2017, 09:58:23 am
I was watching some crap on Netflix last night while my dinner cooked. Anyway, some weird US end-of-the-worlder, you know the type, with a bad itch for the end times, had calculated that the name 'Prince Charles of Wales' added up to 666. Which means he's a the anti-christ. If you don't believe that, which would be foolish, note that the flag of Wales includes a big dragon that looks, you know, a bit like a demon (or would, if you didn't know what a dragon was). Argue with that if you dare. It's not because they're lizards, that is so patently ludicrous.

I've no idea what Prince Harry of Wherever adds up to.

I remember, 25 years ago, working in a Suffolk school, and a local Brethren family, the Skoyles, all 14 of them, rocked up to school demanding to see the Head.

"We don't want our children using them 'pooters"

"Oh really? And why is that?"

"They are the work of the Devil"

"And what makes you think that?"

They pulled out a piece of paper with some sort of formula, a=1, b=2, kind of thing, and announced that if you added up the letters of the word COMPUTER it came to six hundred and sixty-six.

"And that signifies the work of the Devil!!!"

"How interesting!" said the Head. "I wonder what it is in French?" At which point he pulled off a French dictionary from the shelf, found the word 'ordinateur' and applied the calculation.

"So, it comes to 1546. And what does that signify?"


Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 November, 2017, 12:25:27 pm
Well? What does it signify? Two and a bit devils, I suppose, which is just what you'd expect of the French.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: lahoski on 29 November, 2017, 12:45:38 pm
Presumably one SI diable is 2.(321) imperial devils.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 November, 2017, 01:07:00 pm
According to HIGNFY, ee-uns of any spelling are an endangered species.

That's because foreigns can't say it.

Mind you, they do a better job of it than Siobhan, Niamh, or (for bonus points) Meadhbh. Admittedly, the latter has given up and writes the Anglicized version.
They don't do well with Hugh either. Ooog.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 November, 2017, 07:22:09 pm
Anyway, this is his name:

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

What does that add up to?  A hill of beans?

I think it is actually His Royal Higness Prince Henry of Wales

At least it was a few weeks ago when he was at a function I was at.

Did he ask for your autograph?

No, he asked for yours.
I trust you signed on my behalf?
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Wowbagger on 29 November, 2017, 07:24:50 pm
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/24172905_10155964017322392_5629790658792108612_o.jpg?oh=66028d582ba9b34af1ff1bb4bdb15346&oe=5A9B77F7)
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Jaded on 29 November, 2017, 10:44:42 pm
Anyway, this is his name:

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales

What does that add up to?  A hill of beans?

I think it is actually His Royal Higness Prince Henry of Wales

At least it was a few weeks ago when he was at a function I was at.

Did he ask for your autograph?

No, he asked for yours.
I trust you signed on my behalf?

He was insistent, so no. He wanted authenticity. In spades.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Panoramix on 29 November, 2017, 10:49:09 pm
Well? What does it signify? Two and a bit devils, I suppose, which is just what you'd expect of the French.
That must be why a Frenchman got the Brexit negotiator job!

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Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 01 December, 2017, 09:06:14 pm
Will Harry and Meghan's marriage last?
 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/will-harry-meghans-marriage-last-asked-experts/)
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Panoramix on 01 December, 2017, 09:45:56 pm
Will Harry and Meghan's marriage last?
 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/will-harry-meghans-marriage-last-asked-experts/)
Americans tend not to last too much with British royals!


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Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: hellymedic on 01 December, 2017, 11:27:29 pm
Will Harry and Meghan's marriage last?
 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/will-harry-meghans-marriage-last-asked-experts/)
Americans tend not to last too much with British royals!


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Uh? Wallis outlived her Royal husband and was married for 35-odd years, having wed at over 40.
Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: Panoramix on 02 December, 2017, 05:01:07 pm
My bad, for some reason Fergie was American in my head.

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Title: Re: Harry to Marry
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 December, 2017, 05:23:53 pm
My bad, for some reason Fergie was American in my head.

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The woman currently known as Fergie is indeed American, although to my knowledge has never put out for a Royal.