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Images you'll never be rid of, #1
Posted by Black Type on 5 February 2012 - 1:48am.
From yesterday's Times: in an extract from a new Prince biography, at the time when he was happily married and awaiting fatherhood...a band member visits Chez Nelson...
' A barefoot, pregnant Mayte answered the door. Then Prince descended a flight of stairs in big bunny slippers. "He was so happy", [the visitor] remembers...'
After such a joyful and daft image, it's so sad to read on about the tragic outcome of the impending event.
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Kevin Rowland
The cover of 'My Beauty'. Wish I could erase it from my memory.
Aaaaargh!
I'd just about managed to, then you have to go and bloody bring it up. Thanks a bunch!!
The Milennium Dome, 1st January 2000, 12.00 am
The eyes of the world are on London - and the Queen doesn't know how to do the link-arms-for-"Auld Lang Syne" thing. Hideously embarrassing.
The Queen was confused
because everyone else was wrong.
You don't link hands until you get to the verse which begins 'And here's a hand ...' and all the idiots were linking right at the start.
And it was clear that she wanted desperately to be elsewhere...
...sharing a light ale or two with Philip back home, maybe calling a few friends before calling it a night at half twelve...
I bet they were singing
"... for the sake of Auld Lang Syne" too. The fools.
Probably
"...Auld Lang Zine" as well.
I think you do
And at that point you *change* hands. That's what threw her, presumably because she'd never done anything so common before.
Apart from going to the toilet etc obviously.
Changing hands
I've never heard of this one, and my elderly Scottish mother would be apoplectic at the thought.
The Queen's advisers must have told her what to expect and what was required - I suspect she rarely gets a surprise - but they just hadn't factored in that nobody else on the platform would know how to do it.
Think about it
People are usually in a circle at this point (end of weddings etc.) It's the natural thing to hold hands throughout, rather than stand awkwardly. Of course, it's crucial to position yourself between two members of the opposite sex at this point. There's also the whole running into the middle and rushing back out again bit. Again, awkward without holding hands - or at least without the same scope for mayhem.
It's entirely possible that my experience is atypical though.
The running into the middle and rushing back out again bit?
Surely that's the hokey cokey!
Now that wouldn't have been beneath the dignity of the monarch, oh no. I expect to see it incorporated into the Jubilee celebrations.
Essentially
Yes, it is. For grown-ups.
What?
The Queen goes to the toilet? Didn't know that. Next you will be telling me she farts too.
Loud and Long
They don't smell quite as bad as the Corgis' though.
I've heard
she's a bag of Windsor.
Or at least the corgis are what she blames