The Royal Wedding

[TJ347]

James Watt did not invent the steam engine; this I know for sure. Steam engines, or more specifically making steam engines viable for automotive use in the modern era is a passion of mine, and so I am very familiar with people who've played a role in the development of steam engines.

Anyway, a quick internet search has led me to a Frenchman named Ernest Duchesne as the discoverer of penicillin over three decades before Fleming... Not sure why I thought Pasteur was involved, but whatever. Moving on, Lister is not the name that comes up when I search the history of anesthesia, and inoculation appears to trace back to either 8th century India or circa 10th century China. Explanation?

[robertlouis]

Wee Willie Harris

No need to get personal, old chap.

[robertlouis]

James Watt did not invent the steam engine; this I know for sure. Steam engines, or more specifically making steam engines viable for automotive use in the modern era is a passion of mine, and so I am very familiar with people who've played a role in the development of steam engines.

Anyway, a quick internet search has led me to a Frenchman named Ernest Duchesne as the discoverer of penicillin over three decades before Fleming... Not sure why I thought Pasteur was involved, but whatever. Moving on, Lister is not the name that comes up when I search the history of anesthesia, and inoculation appears to trace back to either 8th century India or circa 10th century China. Explanation?


Fuck, Prospero - they must have started showing QI in the colonies! :)

[Prospero]

d'ye no ken wee willie? The original Scottish punk star from the 1950s

[theone1982]

The Beatles, the Stones, Joanna Jet, Liberty Harkness, Sammi Valentine. Shemale Yum, your girls took one hell of a beating!

Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Venom, Cradle of Filth......

[TJ347]

Fuck, Prospero - they must have started showing QI in the colonies! :)

JOY :dancing:

[robertlouis]

Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Venom, Cradle of Filth......

And while you're running through all of the UK's metal deities, dinna forget wee Susan Boyle!

[Prospero]

Malcolm McLaren, Bernie Ecclestone, Radar, yorkshire putdding, lancashire hotpot, eccles cakes, the kinks, toasted tea cakes, scones, hob nobs

[Prospero]

The Flowerpot men, Bill and ben, Muffin The Mule, The Clangers....

[robertlouis]

JOY :dancing:

ROFLMAO :Bowdown:

So we also gave the world Stephen Fry, national treasure and probably the most loved gay guy in the entire world.

[theone1982]

And while you're running through all of the UK's metal deities, dinna forget wee Susan Boyle!
I thought that was Ozzy Osbourne!:)

[nevada64]

Don't forget Spotted Dick.

[Prospero]

Well we apologise for susan boyle and ozzy osbourne and his entire family... they escaped

[TJ347]

Stephen Fry? And here I thought Elton John held that title, if not Jeremy Clarkson.

[robertlouis]

malcolm mclaren, bernie ecclestone, radar, yorkshire putdding, lancashire hotpot, eccles cakes, the kinks, toasted tea cakes, scones, hob nobs


haggis!!!

[Prospero]

All British enjoy spotted dick
especially with custard

[robertlouis]

Don't forget Spotted Dick.

Full circle back to penicillin lol!

[Prospero]

Piers Morgan.. oh fuck

[theone1982]

Piers Morgan.. oh fuck
Someone already said spotted dick.:)

[nevada64]

Benny Hill. :)

[TJ347]

Benny Hill

[robertlouis]

And the beautiful game.....

[TJ347]

Oasis, the Verve, the Spice Girls

[Prospero]

Let's widen this - since Ireland was part of britain for a long time until they escaoed.... so George bernard Shaw, oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, W B Yeats, The Chieftains, Edna O'Brien, J M Synge, Seamus Heaney, Eamonn Andrews, Terry Wogan,

[theone1982]

Monty Python!:Bowdown::party:
YouTube - Monty Python - Spam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE)

[robertlouis]

Golf, of course.

[Prospero]

Pink Floyd, Shirley Bassey, Harry Seacombe, Middle Of The Road, The New Seekers, Picketywitch

[nevada64]

The Thunderbirds.

[Prospero]

Cricket!

[theone1982]

Dr. Who!
YouTube - Doctor Who - Clean Tom Baker Opening (1974) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdVivT0ShC4)

[Prospero]

Hugh Lawrie, Tony Blair, the invasion of Iraq (with help from uncle bush)

[nevada64]

Keith Floyd.

[robertlouis]

Let's widen this - since Ireland was part of britain for a long time until they escaoed.... so George bernard Shaw, oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, W B Yeats, The Chieftains, Edna O'Brien, J M Synge, Seamus Heaney, Eamonn Andrews, Terry Wogan,


....Christy Moore, Cara Dillon, Enya, Dervish, Horslips, Patrick Street, Van Morrison, The Undertones, The Boomtown Rats, Gary Moore, RIP, Rory Gallagher, RIP.

Oh, and Thin Lizzy. Can't win 'em all.

[TJ347]

Babyshambles, S Club 7, Olde English malt liquor

[robertlouis]

Keith Floyd.

Gordon "Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck!" Ramsay.

[robertlouis]

, Olde English malt liquor

If that's a reference to single malt scotch, I'm coming after you with a claymore, pal!

[Prospero]

Olde English malt Liquor... ? well i always thought the Malt came from scotland and it was called Whisky and its the best darn drink in the word apart from champagne and coffee.

so from north of the borer Single malt... and the best of em... laphroig

[TJ347]

This place

[theone1982]

Keira Knightley!:Bowdown:

[nevada64]

The Imperial Pint glass. :Bowdown:

[TJ347]

Olde English malt Liquor... ?

Yes, indeedy!

[nevada64]

I need a beer....

[robertlouis]

Olde English malt Liquor... ? well i always thought the Malt came from scotland and it was called Whisky and its the best darn drink in the word apart from champagne and coffee.

so from north of the borer Single malt... and the best of em... laphroig

That last sentence reads as if you're drinking it, Prospero lol

Laphraoig from Islay, Highland Park from Orkney, Springbank from Campbeltown, Glenlivet from Speyside, Glengoyne from the Highlands (and my home village!), Auchentoshan from the lowlands.

The finest liquid known to man. I have a collection of over 100. :party::party::party:

[nevada64]

That last sentence reads as if you're drinking it, Prospero lol

Laphraoig from Islay, Highland Park from Orkney, Springbank from Campbeltown, Glenlivet from Speyside, Glengoyne from the Highlands (and my home village!), Auchentoshan from the lowlands.

The finest liquid known to man. I have a collection of over 100. :party::party::party:


Yum. Can I come over?...

[robertlouis]

Yes, indeedy!

Unknown in this country, a bit like "English" muffins.

[Prospero]

Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, Kate Moss

[theone1982]

Victoria Beckham!

[robertlouis]

Yum. Can I come over?...

Yep, anyone who makes it, party at my place lol.

[nevada64]

Yep, anyone who makes it, party at my place lol.

Thanks Mate. :dancing:

[TJ347]

I need a beer....

:party:

[Prospero]

Robert Louis - I bow to your alcoholic prowess and add to that this Glenmorangie... but would also mention some good british bitter.... the best I've tried being Adnams and Greene king's Abbott ale

[robertlouis]

The Krankies!

[Prospero]

A few more significant english folk... Darwin, the Huxleys, T E Lawrence and D H Lawrence, Anthony Powell, Virginia Woolf, H G Wells, Iris Murdoch

[nevada64]

Hyacinth Bucket.

[robertlouis]

Robert Louis - I bow to your alcoholic prowess and add to that this Glenmorangie... but would also mention some good british bitter.... the best I've tried being Adnams and Greene king's Abbott ale

Both brewed fairly locally to me in East Anglia.

I'll add Doom Bar and Tribute from Cornwall, Blandford Fly from Dorset, Deuchars from Edinburgh, Black Sheep from Yorkshire, Hansons from Liverpool, Thwaites from Blackburn, and Bishop's Finger (!!!) from Kent.

[TJ347]

Helena Bonham Carter

[theone1982]

Edward Gibbon.

[TJ347]

Hyacinth Bucket.

It's pronounced "Bouquet".

[Prospero]

But this is getting way too pro-Brit... let's praise some notable americans as well.
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, J Edgar Hoover, George Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Mayor Daley, Mayor Rizzo, Ronald Reagan,

[nevada64]

It's pronounced "Bouquet".

Very good.

[nevada64]

But this is getting way too pro-Brit... let's praise some notable americans as well.
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, J Edgar Hoover, George Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Mayor Daley, Mayor Rizzo, Ronald Reagan,

Ouch... But so true.

[robertlouis]

Margaret Thatcher.

You can have her for free.

[Prospero]

Charlie Chaplin

[TJ347]

Jane Horrocks, who I'll always remember as "Bubble"...

[nevada64]

Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Donald Rumsfeld.

[Prospero]

Oh yes.. maggie T, Tony B, Gordon B (oh sorry the last two were scottish actually),

[theone1982]

Simon Cowell.

[Prospero]

Oswald Mosley, Colin Jordan, the NP, The National front, The League of St George, the 7/7 bombers,

[Prospero]

Tina Brown - now spoiling newsweek after trying to spoil the new yorker

[nevada64]

Mrs. Slocombe.

[TJ347]

Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, Alan Combes, Keith Olberman, Janeane Garofalo, Bruce Springsteen, Melissa Etheridge, Matt Damon... Well, that didn't last long. I'm out of Brits, so I'll take my ball and go home now.

[Prospero]

Canada

[nevada64]

British Racing Green.

[robertlouis]

Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Donald Rumsfeld.

Fuck, I hope this isn't the start of an export drive for evil right-wing twats - we have our own, thank you!

Back to the good side - Harry Potter, and his creator, the wonderful JK Rowling. A friend of mine manages her accounts (nice work!), and her private work for charities is quite outstanding.

[theone1982]

Lemmy!:Bowdown:

[TJ347]

A-ha!

[Prospero]

ahhh J K Rowling... and of course Sir Terry Pratchett

[robertlouis]

Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, Alan Combes, Keith Olberman, Janeane Garofalo, Bruce Springsteen, Melissa Etheridge, Matt Damon... Well, that didn't last long. I'm out of Brits, so I'll take my ball and go home now.

When the Dark Side takes power again, we'll happily grant all of these fine folk political asylum. Any more? :whistle:

[nevada64]

Peter Green.

[Prospero]

Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix (well a wee bit of licence - the US didn't catch on to him until he broke big in the UK)

[theone1982]

Rob Halford!:Bowdown:

[Prospero]

Rob halford.,....Is he an extra from some dumbass sci fi show?

[TJ347]

The Dark Side stays in power. It's called government.

I'll offer up Sterling Moss, Jim Clark, Mike Hawthorne and Sir Jackie Stewart.

[robertlouis]

The Dark Side stays in power. It's called government.

I'll offer up Sterling Moss, Jim Clark, Mike Hawthorne and Sir Jackie Stewart.

When he was a wee lad in Dumbarton, Jackie Stewart used to fill up my dad's car at his dad's petrol station on the A82.

[Prospero]

Cambridge University, Oxford university, St Andrews University... and..

Westminster Abbey, Lincoln Cathedral, Salisbury cathedral, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Tintern, St Pauls Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, York Minster

[robertlouis]

A-ha!

No, they're Norwegian.

[theone1982]

Rob halford.,....Is he an extra from some dumbass sci fi show?

Whaaaaat???!!! He's the metal god!:rock2:rock2

[nevada64]

Don't forget Q from the James Bond films.

[TJ347]

Judi Dench, Catherine Tate, Kate Winslet... and with that I'm going to bed. Good night, folks.

[Prospero]

Sherlock Holmes, Miss marple, Hercule poiret

[Prospero]

All gods are metal...but usually tin.

I worship at the church of the wholly absence

[robertlouis]

Cambridge University, Oxford university, St Andrews University... and..

Westminster Abbey, Lincoln Cathedral, Salisbury cathedral, Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Tintern, St Pauls Cathedral, Durham Cathedral, York Minster

You forgot Ely Cathedral, the ship of the fens.

The castles - Edinburgh, Stirling, Harlech, Windsor, Dover, the Tower of London, Leeds, Herstmonceux, Bodiam, Alnwick, Bamburgh.....

[theone1982]

What about the greatest Scot of all time, Sean connery?!

[TJ347]

No, they're Norwegian.

I see. And it appears Mighty Mouse isn't a British invention either, so let me come up with another one...

[nevada64]

Peter Cushing.

[robertlouis]

What about the greatest Scot of all time, Sean connery?!

I demur....

[Prospero]

Ho could I forget Ely and on castles how about Carmarthen, Carnaevon, Rhuddlan.. oh this is getting boring!!!! (if there were any french in this forum they'd give us all a good run for money on writers, great castles and cathedrals etc etc etc wouldn't they!),

[theone1982]

I demur....

I say we take it to the People's Court!:) Is this show even on in England?
YouTube - The People's Court 1981-1993 theme music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iTqoDH0vFU)

[robertlouis]

Ho could I forget Ely and on castles how about Carmarthen, Carnaevon, Rhuddlan.. oh this is getting boring!!!! (if there were any french in this forum they'd give us all a good run for money on writers, great castles and cathedrals etc etc etc wouldn't they!),

Dickens, George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, Milton, Tennyson, Smollett, Trollope (Anthony, not Joanna lol), Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, JB Priestley, Jane Austen, Burns, James Hogg, Sterne, Anthony Burgess, W H Auden, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, WB Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Ian McEwan, Kate Atkinson, William Boyd, Ian Rankin, David Lodge, Kipling, Betjeman, Sarah Waters, JG Ballard, Sebastian Faulks, Daphne du Maurier, Bruce Chatwin, Peter Ackroyd......

And that chap from Stratford....oh yes, Shakespeare.

And Katie Price, of course.

[nevada64]

British Bar Towels.

[robertlouis]

British Bar Towels.

Excellent - and real ale, not that adulterated fizzy chemical compound called lager.

And not forgetting - Ealing comedies!

[theone1982]

And my favorite...Anthony Hopkins!:Bowdown::Bowdown:

[nevada64]

I think this girl is from Britain.

[robertlouis]

I think this girl is from Britain.

She's Brasilian, but we'd welcome her with open arms. :)

[nevada64]

I need me some Bangers and Mash with a pint or two.

[traLika]

Arkell's Kingsdown ale: Mmmmmmmmmmm!

[Prospero]

I think this girl is from Britain.

Well since I have a prediliction for being topped from time-to-time I'd also welcome her with open legs!

[Willie Escalade]

Isn't this British?

[SammiValentine]

Well it is over. Phew. Now onto more important stuff like the next step in the return of King Kenny. :D

[Stavros]

He isn't even a 'Sir' yet, Sammi, kingship comes rather later -eg like when Liverpool actually win something, football is a game even if some of 'King Kenny' s friends are players of a different kind...remember the Adams family?

[SammiValentine]

But we have won more than anyone else?:)) ummm I remember cousin IT and Uncle Fester ?:)

[envivision]

I was personally invited to the wedding by her Majesty the Queen.

All I can say is:

Great party
Awful food
Uncle Garry , Kate's uncle, did not dissapoint.

[Jericho]

Stavros and Aunty Betty had to invite me...I'm Godfather to one of the Corgis.

[Ben]

YouTube - Royal Wedding Takes Over Real News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj54Hvm8AK0)

[Stavros]

But we have won more than anyone else?http://1.2.3.13/bmi/www.hungangels.com/vboard/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif) ummm I remember cousin IT and Uncle Fester ?

Adams, not Addams...crime syndicate not vampires...well, not in the traditional literary sense...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dalglish-got-gangster-to-aid-rooney-agent-535153.html

Clerkenwell crime syndicate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerkenwell_crime_syndicate)

[robertlouis]

He isn't even a 'Sir' yet, Sammi, kingship comes rather later -eg like when Liverpool actually win something, football is a game even if some of 'King Kenny' s friends are players of a different kind...remember the Adams family?

Are you sure Stavros? Give him a contract and £30m and Liverpool will be challenging again next season.

[robertlouis]

YouTube - Royal Wedding Takes Over Real News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj54Hvm8AK0)

Nowt to do with the royals and everything to do with the crap US media.

But I agree with the premise of the clip. Syria is in meltdown with hundreds killed and we are instead subjected to simpering twats spending hours discussing a fucking dress.

Bread and circuses - some things haven't changed in 2000 years.

[robertlouis]

Stavros and Aunty Betty had to invite me...I'm Godfather to one of the Corgis.

You look more like the grandfather of one of the corgis lol.

[mikelpo]

:Bowdown:Legend!

[theone1982]

All right RobertLouis, when are you going to start the Royal Divorce thread?:):dancing:

[robertlouis]

All right RobertLouis, when are you going to start the Royal Divorce thread?:):dancing:

Ah, but which one? There are so many to choose from. Edward and his beard for a start....

[nevada64]

Nowt to do with the royals and everything to do with the crap US media.

But I agree with the premise of the clip. Syria is in meltdown with hundreds killed and we are instead subjected to simpering twats spending hours discussing a fucking dress.

Bread and circuses - some things haven't changed in 2000 years.

:iagree:

[theone1982]

Ah, but which one? There are so many to choose from. Edward and his beard for a start....

Lol! But will Edward's divorce from his beard be amicable?:)

[robertlouis]

Lol! But will Edward's divorce from his beard be amicable?:)

Oh, get your own royal correspondent. I can't be arsed.

[theone1982]

Oh, get your own royal correspondent. I can't be arsed.

Lol!:lol:

[robertlouis]

Enjoy this clip instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do_7wb_dQwM

[theone1982]

Enjoy this clip instead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do_7wb_dQwM

Ha! That was awesome!:Bowdown: "Not one, but two, restraining orders!":)