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Congrats to the new parents across the pond

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  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-07-22 13:25
    Congrats! It's a Royal!!

    Queen Elizabeth - 87
    Prince Charles - 64
    Prince William - 31
    Prince "baby" - 1 day
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-07-22 14:53
    Seems the yanks follow this more than the brits.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-07-22 15:02
    Heater. wrote: »
    Seems the yanks follow this more than the brits.

    Very true! Nary a peep about it in the British Picaxe forum! :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-07-22 15:10
    Well, possibly I'm a weird Brit.
    Years ago I decided that Diana was not the right girl for Charles and refused to have the TV on on their wedding day.
    After that I kind of lost interest.
  • NWCCTVNWCCTV Posts: 3,629
    edited 2013-07-22 17:15
    Years ago I decided that Diana was not the right girl for Charles
    I really miss Diana. She was the Princess of all Princess's. I was told that somewhere along the line we have blood relation with the Spencers. But anyhow, congrats to William and Kate. (I wonder how Harry feels now that he has been bumped from 3rd to the Throne!!!)
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-07-22 17:49
    NWCCTV wrote:
    I wonder how Harry feels now that he has been bumped from 3rd to the Throne!!!
    Relieved. Now there's even less of a chance that he'll be called to a role that requires behaving himself in public. :)

    -Phil
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-07-22 21:11
    I wish the new British baby and all the 370,000 other children born on planet earth that same day a long, healthy, and prosperous life.
  • RickBRickB Posts: 395
    edited 2013-07-22 21:12
    Years ago I decided that Diana was not the right girl for Charles
    Actually you got it bass ackwards. She raised the potential IQ of the bloodline by at least 50 points.

    Rick
  • JLockeJLocke Posts: 354
    edited 2013-07-22 22:14
    I tend to align more with this guy:

    The BBC's Simon McCoy has been covering the royal labor from outside St. Mary's Hospital in London, but has taken his reports in a distinctly different direction from his colleagues: pure honesty.

    Before tossing back to his BBC counterparts in the studio, McCoy signed off from his news report, saying, "Well, plenty more to come from here of course. None of it news because that will come from Buckingham Palace. But that won't stop us."

    Though the duchess checked into the hospital early Monday morning, she could be in labor for hours, which means McCoy will be waiting outside St. Mary's Hospital for even longer. At least he'll keep viewers up to date with all the latest information he doesn't have.

    BuzzFeed posted another video of McCoy reading his way through viewer comments hating on the obsessive coverage. "We will be speculating about this royal birth with no facts ... at the moment," he said in response to the critical comments.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-07-23 00:25
    RickB,
    She raised the potential IQ of the bloodline by at least 50 points.
    Perhaps so. I stick by my observation though.

    There was a research paper that found that the length of marriages was very strongly correlated to the degree of similarity of intelligence of the partners. More of a correlation than any other metric they checked. Sorry can't find a link to that.

    Hey, I was born in St. Mary's hospital. Sometimes I like to speculate that I was an illegitimate royal reject baby that they secretly swapped in the maternity ward:)
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-07-23 06:05
    Heater. wrote: »

    Hey, I was born in St. Mary's hospital. Sometimes I like to speculate that I was an illegitimate royal reject baby that they secretly swapped in the maternity ward:)
    Only if you have the secret purple pimpernel birthmark on your butt :smile:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-07-23 07:04
    Why are we hearing about this? Is the mom ok? Is the kid ok? Does the kid need some automated prosthetic to survive? They seem too ashamed to discuss the actual problem, poor things.
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