tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post5004967963996181116..comments2024-03-28T21:38:17.424-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: World hounds queen like Diana was huntedNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68219520723954436322017-09-01T19:06:51.538-05:002017-09-01T19:06:51.538-05:00Everyone forgets that Mother Teresa died just a fe...Everyone forgets that Mother Teresa died just a few days after Diana. I remember tales of media stars complaining about there being no good hotel rooms in Calcutta and whining about having to go there after a week in London. Life's a bitch sometimes...Bexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08411765555371809052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-83094624087213821362017-09-01T07:48:08.693-05:002017-09-01T07:48:08.693-05:00Phillip was a bully to many a person.Phillip was a bully to many a person.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-56222366152207563042017-08-31T23:27:31.667-05:002017-08-31T23:27:31.667-05:00It's public knowledge that he was cheating on ...It's public knowledge that he was cheating on her form Day 1. He was in constant contact with Camilla their entire marriage.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-22670776700253139472017-08-31T17:34:39.799-05:002017-08-31T17:34:39.799-05:00When I think of Diana, I'm reminded of Elton J...When I think of Diana, I'm reminded of Elton John's "Candle in the Wind"; the tribute to Marilyn Monroe renamed for Princess Diana, "Goodbye England's Rose". They're both quite alike in how publicity hounded them throughout their lives, both dying young.<br /><br />As for the British royals, I imagine it was hard to be controlled by the message rather than controlling it. But, they shouldn't have been offended. What are they but public relations employees for the United Kingdom?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04541828632284556589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-58613200342249613452017-08-31T17:30:20.527-05:002017-08-31T17:30:20.527-05:00"Toughen him up" by delivering him into ..."Toughen him up" by delivering him into the hands of a bunch of bullies. Nice. One more reason I think Prince Philip is insufferable.<br /><br />Nothing ghastly about Gordonstoun? Try looking at pictures of the place sometime. It <a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/02/01/article-2272134-0D37CA2E00000578-44_634x342.jpg" rel="nofollow">looks like a medieval prison.</a><br /><br />I don't know how you know he cheated on her "from Day One." Cheat on her he did, certainly, after she turned out to be a complete fluffbrain and it was clear they were utterly incompatible. He sought solace in the arms of his first and only true love. Not exactly exemplary, perhaps, but all too human.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-35850271437491021982017-08-31T13:56:01.983-05:002017-08-31T13:56:01.983-05:00From what I've read, there's nothing ghast...From what I've read, there's nothing ghastly about Gordonstoun, where Prince Philip sent Chucky off to school.<br />He apparently wanted to toughen him up, as he was something of a wimp.<br />As for Diana abusing Chucky, considering he cheated on her from Day One, I can't blame her one bit!<br />And most of what he's done as an adult, other than his military service, which was exemplary, has been an unmitigated disaster, such as the appalling Luftwaffe crack I referred to earlier! Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-60135454618090922502017-08-31T12:28:41.847-05:002017-08-31T12:28:41.847-05:00Yeah, a fine column. I felt that way then and now...Yeah, a fine column. I felt that way then and now. The movie "The Queen" does a nice job of portraying how blind-sided the royals were by the nature of the grief expressed by the British hoi polloi as events unfolded that terrible week. <br /><br />Who bought all the Daily Mails and People magazines and whatnot, desperate to follow her every move while she was alive? The same folks who were the ones most upset in the aftermath of her death. The fact that they didn't seem to realize nor care that their insatiable curiosity about her had essentially employed the photographers who hounded her is sadly ironic.<br /><br />"The first is the manner I learned of the accident: from the Sunday New York Times, which was delivered in our breezeway on Pine Grove Avenue. Old school, even back then."<br /><br />Indeed, what I recall is that that was one of the last, or *the* last, huge events that I found out about by picking up the newspaper in the morning. Went to bed knowing nothing about what had happened, woke up to screaming headlines about her death. Or at least I *remember* a headline in the Tribune. Wondering now why our genial host wouldn't have had a Sun-Times sitting next to the NYT in the breezeway that, with a later deadline, would have had the up-to-date news...<br /><br />And I was hoping for at least a brief nod to your fine coinage "The Full Diana" on this occasion, NS, but I guess I'll have to supply it myself. ; ) Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73118726952284648422017-08-31T11:06:58.725-05:002017-08-31T11:06:58.725-05:00I was fretting over punctuation and awkwardness in...I was fretting over punctuation and awkwardness in general until I realized it isn't a paragraph, it's a poem. Allow me this do-over. <br /><br />Poor Diana, tabloid deity<br />Kept in a jar on the mantel<br />Victim of the vicarious masses<br />Who didn't bother to poke holes in the lidTony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16761845315875257252017-08-31T10:12:51.775-05:002017-08-31T10:12:51.775-05:00Someone once wrote to Miss Manners, aka Judith Mar...Someone once wrote to Miss Manners, aka Judith Martin, aka an underrated national treasure, complaining about how reporters dare question survivors of an accident, with this closing note of indignation: "How do you think people in that situation feel?"<br /><br />Miss Manners' reply was typically droll and perfect: "That is what the members of the press are trying to find out for you."<br /><br />As for Diana and the royal family:<br /><br />Call me contrarian, but I’m much more a fan of Prince Charles than I was of Diana. I don’t mean I look up to him exactly, but I find him a lot more sympathetic. Unlike Diana, he didn’t choose to be in the British royal family. He was shipped off to a perfectly ghastly boarding school in Scotland where he was ostracized and beaten, apparently because the other little shits wanted to show how tough they were by pushing around the future king. At age 68, he’s been Prince of Wales longer than any other. And his attempts to do something with his life besides waiting for his mother to die have been met with nearly unmitigated ridicule.<br /><br />As for Diana, according to a new bio of Charles, she abused him verbally (and sometimes physically) during their marriage. Yes, it's tragic how she died, but I never could get beyond thinking of her as basically a spoiled brat.<br /><br />If Charles’s luck remains what it has throughout his life, he’ll die six months or so after his mother does.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-31281464102044530162017-08-31T08:38:58.511-05:002017-08-31T08:38:58.511-05:00I learned what "bathos" means years ago ...I learned what "bathos" means years ago when reading an account of Douglas MacArthur's "Old soldiers" speech to Congress, which was perfectly bathetic.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67623023920330713592017-08-31T08:26:27.845-05:002017-08-31T08:26:27.845-05:00Poor Diana; tabloid deity. Kept in a jar on the ma...Poor Diana; tabloid deity. Kept in a jar on the mantel, victim of the vicarious masses who didn't bother to poke holes in the lid. Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-68484193343151152042017-08-31T07:38:58.543-05:002017-08-31T07:38:58.543-05:00I read the phrase "overwhelming bathos" ...I read the phrase "overwhelming bathos" and was all ready to pen (well, thumb) a comment pointing out the typo...surely you meant "pathos". Then, remembering your fondness for the word less traveled shall we say, I looked up "bathos" and...today I learned a new word. Thanks Neil!Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06999742344943920153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-47727804346355306112017-08-31T07:12:06.932-05:002017-08-31T07:12:06.932-05:00People mock Chucky as a twit, because he is a twit...People mock Chucky as a twit, because he is a twit!<br />Only a twit would said that the Luftwaffe did less damage to London than modern architects, but Chucky the winner of the Upper Class Twit of the Century said that!Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.com