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How media coverage of the British royal family has changed:
Yes, Your Majesty!
Guess what? It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, and I wrote this post usin’ this online English-to-Pirate translator from the original Talk Like a Pirate Day website.
But rather than doin’ all t’ talkin’ meself, I thought I’d see how Prince Charles sounds in pirate-speak, so here’s a quote from a recent speech o’ his, translated into pirate-talk:
“Ladies and gentlemen, with t’ crisis o’ climate change and t’ risin’ cost o’ food, never has it been so important t’ take immediate action t’ protect marine life and enaye t’ sustainable management o’ t’ many resources and benefits that our seas provide t’ us all.”
Aaar, royal matey, I couldn’t have said it better meself.
“Pardon us Ma’am, but as much as we remain your loyal subjects, there is one thing we love more than you.”
Fish and chips: The best of British
Which famous people would you like to see brought back from the dead? Elvis Presley was the top choice in a British survey, followed by Princess Diana, Marilyn Monroe, and... Henry VIII??????
Apparently 11% of British people have spent too much time looking at pretty pictures of Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Not that I blame them.
“So sorry, Virginia, you can dress up all you like but there is no Prince Charming, just a privileged bunch of royal rich kids,” says writer Ben Hills. The pain behind the princess myth
Hills is the author of Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne.
“[Princess] Diana’s funeral may not have pioneered the use of applause where once silence reigned, but it made the practice acceptable and respectable.”
“In Nigeria, the rich can pay for special ‘fattening rooms’ to put on extra weight.” The fattening rooms of Calabar (with video)
“Today the outlaw is king: parodying fairy tales has become the default mode of telling them.”
“The difference between our attitudes toward Diana and Anna Nicole is the difference between dreaming and gawking.”
The Princess and the Playmate
“When a celebrity dies, the media now knows how to build a dramatic tragedy around it. But who determines the length of the play?” I grieve, therefore I am
Is Paris Hilton “the closest thing to American royalty,” as she herself reportedly claims, and is that why people love to hate her? The trash princess
