The estimable Museblog Controller has pointed out that a plethora of Queens are making appearances on the blog. He ‘s asked me to explain, from my wealth of knowledge of heraldry and matters Royal (ha!), the correct procedure for setting oneself up as a monarch, and the correct form of address by one who hasn’t to one who has.
Right then. Firstly, you need to own a country. Sorry, but that’s pretty obligatory for a monarch. And it can’t be some poxy little rock in the middle of nowhere, either. The practical minimum is something the size of Tonga. I know it doesn’t look that big on the map, but it’s a big map.
Next, you have to get most of your subjects to agree that you own it. There’s always going to be a rebel element, so you’ll need a gang of thugs (sorry, a glorious army) to stop the rebels getting inconvenient. You also need to control religion. That has a habit of getting out of hand.
That’s about it, really. If everyone else reckons you’re Queen (or King), that’s what you are. Now they just need to show a bit of respect and address you correctly.
If they write to you, they should address you as “Your Majesty” throughout the correspondence, and finish with ‘I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant’. It’s a bit of a mouthful in conversation, so they’ll only have to call you “Your Majesty” the first time they address you. Then, until you throw them out because you’re bored, they can revert to the suitably obsequious “Ma’am” or “Sir”.
Should you have a spouse or immediate progeny, the same rules apply, except that they get called “Your Royal Highness”.
“Your Grace” is reserved for high members of your Church hierarchy. Unless you revert to the early Tudor form, where the monarch was addressed as “Your grace” as head of the Church.
You need to give your most sycophantic cronies some juicy titles to play with. The order of poshness is as follows :
Duke/Duchess, Marquis/Marquess, Earl/Countess, Viscount, Baron, Baronet. Dukes and Duchesses are called “Your Grace” (confusingly). Everyone else is “My Lord” or “My Lady”, which is even more confusing, because there are also Lords of the Manor. This is the only title you can actually buy.
I hope that clarifies the situation. I very much doubt whether it does.
After reading that, I’m glad I dropped the queen from my name! One question though, those rules are for real-world-queens. What about virtual/ internet queens? Do we have to own a virtual country? Does the MuseBlog count as a bit of virtual real estate?
I’m not going to do the first-post dance, because someone else might have posted something and the Muse administrator people just haven’t posted it yet. However, if, after the Muse people post this, it turns out I am the first post, I shall have a rousing ball(party) in the second post.
Let the revels begin!
Huzzah! Huzzah! I was the first to post in this one, and in the Dumpster Dive Song thread! Woohoo! *violin…er piano…um what kind of music do queens listen to, anyway?* Allright, the whole party is starting now! Everyone dance with everyone else, be snubbed by Mr. Darcy (Sorry, that should be in the Books and Movies thread!) and just generally mave a good time, unless queen’s revels aren’t supposed to be fun, in which case have a very stuffy time, but don’t say you don’t like it because this is the queen’s party, and you don’t want to make her made! REVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I meant make her MAD.
so is there a king/queen of Andorra, Luxembourg, Lichtenstien, and all of the other wonderful impossible-to-spell tiny coutries?
Can high-ranking church officials also be dukes/duchesses? or if they’re a baron or something, do you call them “your grace” or “my lord”?
Also, I thought that there were Counts somewhere? Or is that the same thing as an Earl?
Mmm. If you’re going to be a virtual queen, you need to own the cyberspace equivalent of a country-sized piece of real estate. That would probably be a whole domain suffix. You’d need to write to ICANN, who administer global domains, tell them you want to be a queen, and see if you can persuade them to register the .mgg suffix (MontGomeryGurl) just for you. I wish you luck.
HAH! i don’t have to follow the rules cuz I’m a dictator with a big armynot a queen. MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I control….um….do xangas count? cuz that’s MINE!!! woohoo!
And my army is invisible so there!
I do have a domain name! I really do. There are reasons. Complicated ones.
As one of the few Older Gaboomba Queens currently on the Museblog, I argue my case. I am a queen of a country, and those who care to dispute it are advised differently, so to speak. Also, maybe my first name is Queen. You really don’t know, do you?
Luxembourg is a constitutional monarchy. Same as England’s government. Ask Mr. Baker Sir if you wish. Queens listen to whatever music they like
Really? that’s a relief, because I think when I was queen I listened to some Switchfoot, and I’ve been worried ever since that I violated some kind of rule! I was afraid for awhile there that I was going to be kicked out of queen-dom because I listend to the wrong kind of music. I stepped down from my post as queen, but it’s good to know in case I ever want to be queen again!
I’m High Judge Llien of Gillieth, but it’s an elected position. I am a Justice on the International Court. I don’t have an army, because I have treaties with all the surrounding countries, Eastern and Northeastern and Southwestern. The Westerners tolerate me, but if they get annoying I have the largest school of Druids at my command, also non-humanoid people live in greater percentages in Gillieth then anywhere else, and they support me b/c if Gillieth falls they will be treated like animals again. Also the Grand-Duke and Ambassador of Dragons are two of my best friends. So nobody crosses me.
Me? I own my room, and my stuffed animals are my obedient servants.
Phoenix: Well, my friend is the High Priest of Chimaeras, so ha.
My brother has a domain name.. but domain names and domain suffixes are different.. I think..
What do you call the peole in parliament? Do they have a special title? Did everyone just sit around when they were designing kingdoms and just try to make them as complicated as possible or something?
ooh we have a history project where we have to design our own government! i haven’t started yet (shock and suprise. more procrastination) but it sounds cool. I can make myself supreme ruler. mwahaha
I’m going to keep my title. What if my first name was Queen? Would I be usurping titular rights then? I repeat that I HAVE a domain name. I’m slowly and painfully working out the surprisingly obvious on it, though. (Bonus points if you kow where that phrase is from!)
People in Parliament have special titles according to their rank, I think. Maybe? I don’t know. Mr. Baker sir would.
Ooooh! Lurker, that sounds fun. Wait, history projects are fun? I better go back to bed.
I have a Message Board and a Xanga. Do they count?
ooh, ebeth, I want your history teacher.
ooh what are they? can u tell me or no?
i used to have like 3 message boards cuz 2 of my cousins and i all decided to do a bunch but after a while we all got bored and deleted them.
ok u guys will hear a lot about my history class cuz it’s hilariously funny (i swear my teacher is like the american paul baker!) (yes that was a compliment not an insult lol!) anyhoo today he was explaining a bit more about the project and we got into all the philosophers and stuff, and found out that he really likes Locke. And when he really likes something it gets pretty funny. he starts running around the room and banging on stuff and gets all worked up. which might not be so paul baker-ish, i dunno. they just have the same sense of humor. (and they both do history stuffins…) now i’m getting way off topic what was i saying?? arrrgh..oh yah. anyway he started acting dictator-ish to give us examples and stuff and it was really funny.
wow that was long. and a bit boring. it’s funnier when you see it. i should videotape him.
anyway…why was i talking about history??? rar grar…eek. why can i not post normal-length comments????
oh yes i’ve decided in addition to being a dictator, i also want to be a Countess, just because nobody else will. whee randomness. ok i’m going now…this comment is way too long…probably because i’m procrastinating as usual…
my next comment will be under 10 words. guaranteed. just to make up for this one.
(To Queen Julietaini of Kiador) I’ve heard that before… I think Marvin says it…
HAH! I have a domain suffix. And it’s a big one! (.com) MWAHAHAHAHA! *Internet queen dance* So now, I would like you to address me as Your Virtual Majesty. Even when I’m being randomrohanfreak and/or Jusenkyo. Thank you, loyal subjects.
It’s from HG2G. University of Maxi-Megalon; Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious.
(I didn’t have to look that up.)
Congratulations, Your Virtual Majesty.
BOW TO ME! My Virtual Majesty wants the Nov/Dec issue to come out now! And it shall be done!
Right?
Right?
Never mind. BOW TO ME!
OK, clarifications needed.
When I said that to be a virtual monarch, you needed to own a domain suffix, I didn’t mean just owning a domain with a suffix. That’s too easy. I meant that you have to have your own special country suffix, and anyone that wants a domain with that suffix has to apply to you. eg. if you’re calling your country “Morbidia”, you might apply to ICANN for full control of the .mb domain. Where is she, by the way? Haven’t seen her on here recently.
Members of Parliament are called – er – Members of Parliament. They get MP after their name, but they don’t get any of this “your grace” stuff, except in the Houses of Parliament itself. They don’t talk to each other during debates. It all has to go through the Speaker, who is addressed as “Mr. Speaker, unless they appoint a woman, which they did a few years ago. That fouled up the whole system because no-one knew what to call her, and they were scared of getting it wrong, because she was fierce. Anyway, MPS are referred to as “my honourable friend”, or if they’re the top dogs, “my right honourable friend”. One MP once pointed out that this was ridiculous. He was forced to refer to his opponent as “my right honourable friend”, when he considered him neither a friend nor honourable. And as for being right…..
There’s an American Me? Gorblimey, guv’nor. Stone the cows.
what the heck does stoning the cows have to do with anything? Animal rights! yaaah!
*sound of Mr. Baker being trampled by a herd of angry hiefers*
AAH!! poor bo! *cries*
I have been reading this and I am, may I say, intensely amused. Oh–excuse me for one moment–
*GIGGLESNORT!*
Pardon.
I wanna be a queen too! Lessee…what do I own? Well, the surface area of all the pages of every book I’ve ever read in my life are probably equal to the area of one of your unpronouncible smaller countries. And I have a LOT of land in my head. So , can I declare myself the Official Queen of My Royal Head? *pause to hear how it sounds*
No. Absolutely not.
ALL HAIL THE TRUE QUEEN OF THE SUNSET LANDS!!!
That’s more like it. ; )
NOOOO! I’m still My Virtual Majesty. And I have a huge army of vicious virtual attack cows to chew to death everyone who says differently. ALL HAIL QUEENS RANDOMROHANFREAK, JUSENKYO, AND CRAZYOOBLECKMEH THE FIRSTS!
Dadada Da Da DAAAA!!!
humph. grr. nobody appreciates my huge invisible army…:-(
jk! all hail the queens! all of them!!!
the GAPAs don’t seem to like me today, i can’t find my posts…
Does owning your room count? If it does I shall be: Kricket, the complete controller of the room (and if the universe is not owned yet I call being ruler of that to!! lol) mwahaha…
-Kricket
I always thought it was stone the crows..
which would get all the craww lovers all upset..
maybe I’ll just keep my mouth shut.
actually everybody in the world has probably named themselves ruler of the universe at some time. they just don’t have interplanetary armies. (is interplanetary a word?? i think so…)
nooooo poor crraw! *cries*
If everyone already owns the universe I shall own the GALAXY!!!
I shall now proclaime myself:
Kricket, ruler of the galaxy and anyone who stands in my way shall face the wrath of the milky way!!!!
mwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
hey cool that rhymed!!!!!!
-Kricket the ruler of the galaxy. face my wrath!!!!!!!
mwahahahahaha!!!!!!
wait but the galaxy is in the universe so the ruler of the universe would control the ruler of the galaxy too…
you could name yourself the rhyming queen…
i declare myself…erm…ruler of…uh…the…er…um…eek….eh…the….uh…my…hoom…
i give up. arrgh…
The Queen of the Universe shall just have to be the Queen of everthing else in the universe except the galaxy!!
*planetary war battle*
*peace treaty being signed*
There, all settled! mwahahahahaha!!!!!!
-Kricket
what was Zaphod Beetlebrox again? Ruler of the Universe? Galaxy? Supreme High Mugwump? Grand High Pooh-ba?
ooh! star wars! yay! mwahaha! time to torment everybody with the amazing cheesy star wars lines!!!
yay!
Luke: *gets into trouble*
Luke: what do i do?
Obi-Wan: use the force luke.
Luke: *starts this massive struggle for the force*
Audience: JUST USE THE STUPID FORCE ALREADY LUKE!!!!
Luke: *finally gets it and is saved*
Audience: yaaay!
No Luke. I AM your father!
really? can i have 20 bucks dad?
ok guys yah i like to make fun of sw. don’t hurt me! i make fun of things i like!
I name myself Queen of Random Cheesy Star Wars Lines. Just because.
Oh, great. Do you know how stiff the dudes at ICANN are? I can’t even find their EMAIL address. And they control all the INTERNET domain suffixes, for Pete’s sake! Mergatroyde…anyway, ICANN never understand why they’re like that.
I like being Queen. Anyone who doubts that I have subjects will have to buy them all lunch. (Hem, hem. Humph!)
President of the Galaxy. Zaphod Beeblebrox. (shakes with incoherent unniceness)
This really is Random Craziness!
As the king of a domain name, or should I say about to be king, whats that? Prince Consort?
Anyways,
What’s going on here anyways? As king of whatever I say I am king of, I say that this is insane (which doesn’t neccesarily mean you should stop, just keep going, and hope you don’t fall beneath the Wrath of The KING OF RANDOM!)
Random king LOVES the Llama song, yes he does precious…
WHEEEE! this is fun!
Introducing my partner in ruling the galaxy, KITTEN!!!!!!!!
mwahaha!!!!!
this is Kitten speeking- you should be afraid, be very afraid!!!
mwahahahaha!!!!!!!
(this website is very addicting, don’t you think? I am not Kricket…she is sitting in the chair next to me. I do not lie.)
yay the llama song!
this site is addicting! i’ve been on since what? middlish/late-september? and how many times have i posted? how much have i lurked too? wow.
i’m gonna stop naming myself queen of random stuff now cuz i can’t remember what i own. i’ll just be the S.A.D. now (Supreme Absolute Dictator)
I share your pain. I’ve been on this thing for about 5 hours. Stop? never.
I love the llama song!! I wrote it all down on a piece of paper which took a half hour since there is no pause button!! If you are talking about the one on http://www.albinoblacksheep.com, then I have memorized it. If not…
Mwahahahaha!!!
Click on the link and it will take you to the website.
albino black sheep is awesome. i love all their movies (well all the ones i’ve seen anyway)
you know what’s fun w/ that song? get a bunch of friends and memorize it and then when you’re waiting for the impossibly long lunch line, sing it at the top of your lungs and watch everybody stare at you. especially when there’s a visitor to the school. mwahaha.
*gasp* queen j! I love zaphod! he’s sooo cool! how dare you shake your head with unniceness! DIE FIEND!!!!!! ARRRRGH!!!!!! FORTH EORLINGAS!!!!!!
It’s cool, Kitten!
Mr. Baker,
I hope this doesn’t find itself to offend the noble and most intellectual people of Britian, but why do they have a queen? I heard that she’s there to let the government get started at the beginning of the year, but is that true? Or is just because the people want to live up to their name, the United Kingdom? And why don’t they have a king?
Sorry for all the questions.
Geez, Ebeth. Wow. I only was astounded she hadn’t heard of him and his position. No need to threaten immediate death.
Llama song? Too mainstream for moi. Ach well. My personal theory is that the Brits have a queen to live up the heritage/history/cultural rhubarb.
They have a queen because either she didn’t have a brother, or her brother didn’t want to be king..
Erm…
*contemplates*
We have a Queen becasue she’s first in the hereditary line, and she happens to be female. Her husband is just some Greek guy she married in a fit of insanity decades ago. He has no claim to the throne.
As to why we have one at all, well, it goes back to the Civil War. No, the English Civil War. 1642. Cromwell and all that. The Parliamentarians killed the king and established the first democracy, but it wasn’t that easy to turn centuries of absolute monarchical power into a democtratic system. Plenty of other places have found that recently.
They tried to make Cromwell king, but he refused on principle, which is a pretty impressive example of sticking to your convictions (but counterbalanced by a few war crimes). Nevertheless, he was king in all but name, and he held the fragile government together. When he died, the new democracy collapsed into partisan squabbles, and nothing got done. They had to invite the next in the hereditary line to come out of exile and be king, because the government just didn’t seem to work without a figurehead. But they put lots of checks and balances into the system so that the king had very little independent power.He ruled, but only by the grace of Parliament.
And that’s the way it still works. Now that most of Europe and America have established monarch-free democracies based on the British model, we could probably dispense with Her Majesty, but she’s good for tourism, and she does look lovely in her shiny hats.
hey wow we like just did that in history. now we’re doing the american revolution. yay! that makes me happy…cuz there’s only like one section on it and i probably know it all…so i can sit in class and doodle crazy cartoons of people shooting each other…
how much power does the queen have anyway? i mean, does she actually do anything?
didn’t some Dutch guy named the Duke of Orange become England’s king when they ran out and had to import one? A long time ago?
Why is there a House of Nobles and one of Commons, and not just one big Court?
Here’s a llama
there’s a llama
and another little llama.
fuzzy llama
funny llama
llama llama duck!
Llama llama
cheesecake
llama
tablet
brick
potatoe
llama
llama llama mushroom llama
llama llama duck!
I was once a treehouse
I lived in a cake
but I never saw the way
the orange slayed the rake.
I was only three ears dead
but it told a tale
and now listen, little child
to the safety rail
I will finish the song later, it has a fast beat, and I am sur you know why it took me so long to copy down.
in “i was only three ears dead”, it is supposed to be “i was only three years dead.”
whoops!! i guess i put the song in the wrong file…sorry!! if you want to you can delete it….
wat… don’t delete it!!! i made a mistake (again)
forgive me!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I BEGATH OF THOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HYPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM HYPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(DARN!!! EVERY THIME I DO THIS(!)I ALWAYS END UP WITH ONES AT THE END. I WONDER HOW TO STOP THAT??)
Supreme shiny-hat, model?
Do they have a brand of shiny hats called, “Queen’s Choice”?
That would make a lot of money on the tourists who don’t understand Britain’s situation with the queen.
Another fit of madness with the throne in Britain? Didn’t that happen with the George that was ruling at the time of the American Revoulotion? (I think that’s how you spell it.)
Eek. I’m having a fit of madness.
Ha! I may just be a queen! To my gerbils, my house+the backyard+the front lawn+the pool+the side walk is as big as Tonga is to us!
I own a Country! Yay!
My Glorious Army? A pair of gerbils, a turtle, a cat, a corgi (I’m sure Mr. Baker knows what a Corgi is.) a fish, and two monsters-one in the bed and one in the closet whom only exist because my sister exists.
And I will have to ask everybody to call me,
“You Excelleny whom is so great and makes starry nights bow down before you, whom controls all in the universe, and shall remain loyal and royal to us and your country, who is superior to all beings that may roam this earth and in comparasion to any others, they shall wilt and be shamed. Days only rise because of your existence, they end because of your existence too. You sit in the throne of the universe, of the strech of life and all, you rule so well, that even though some of your citizens may not know you, like those on alphesenchurry (if you spell it that way) they shall always be at your humble service by ESP systems that you have mastered…can I please go the bathroom?”
And yes. If I am queen
(you better hope I’m not…)
I shall order
*you must ask to eat a snack
* you must ask to do everything
* you have to entertain me for a day once in your life
* I get to gain weight while somebody else does something for me
* I won’t need to
a) clean the dishes
b) make my bed
c) do anything I have to do now that I hate
(Well making the bed isn’t so bad…)
Dirty Dishes in The Sink: Why does she hate us so much
KitKat: I don’t really know…
and
d) I will get to write on this blog for my whole life. By the time I am 20, I will have to reveal my real name!
So hope that I am never going to be Queen.
P.S.
Plus, you would have to use this smiley :0 as a sign of utter surprise!
:0
I am utterly suprised. I didn’t know i had ESP! sweeeet.
hey kitkat, rulers are all insane. mostly. mainly because they’re all related and they still insist on marrying each other…or did anyway. back then…whenever this is. like back. in history. and yeah. good stuff. i’m making a whole lot of sense here huh? *SARCASM ALERT!!!*
Y’know, I don’t actually know how the twin house system started. I’ll have to look it up. It must work OK, because you lot copied it. It’s probably just so that MPs have somewhere else to march to at the Grand Opening. Now that’s an unintelligible little ritual that happens every year for no apparent reason. It makes the Ceremony of the Keys look sane. Now, if Koko wanted an article on the Birth of Democracy, I could slide that one in…
yes koko does want!!! wheeeee!!! koko would be very happy about that because then ebeth could bring it in and start long political discussions at lunchtime and make everybody late for class. Then the teachers would think the students were on strike and go off to find them, and join the discussion, and then all we would do for the rest of the day would be argue politics. (yah. I wish. who knows, might work!)
Plus Koko thinks the revolution is cool. the american one that is. and the british one i suppose. the french one wasn’t all that cool. but you get to read a tale of two cities and laugh at it. actually it’s fun to laugh at all of them. but they’re still cool. except not. except now i have no clue what this was about. arrgh.
Don’t ever think the russian revolution was cool! It was hor-or-rific!!!
I think.
Mr. Baaaker
Do you know what a Corgi is?
wooooah hang on i didn’t say anything about the russian revolution!
speaking of which we’re reading animal farm in english…
yah ok all wars are pretty stupid. but in terms of making good movies…
lol!
Yep. A Corgi is a small and particularly objectionable type of mutt that bites people and never ceases yapping. The Queen has lots of them, which says something about the Queen. She only keeps them to annoy the staff. Which says something about the staff.
so what kind of dogs do the staff have? or do they keep cats to annoy the queen? where did the corgis come in anyway? i mean in the conversation-type thingamajig that we seem to appear to be having of sorts…why can i never make any sense? what is the meaning of life? why do all high schoolers seem immune to sleep? why are there a million books at the library and i can never find the one i want? why does the queen want to annoy the staff? why do corgis annoy the staff? why am i so inquisitive? do i have nothing better to do? (that would be a yes. this is my best form of entertainment right now) how many of these questions can you actually answer? why would you bother answering them all? how come every sentence i’ve written has been a question except for one? what is so boring about life that i have to sit at the computer all night anyway? why is my globe still upside-down? how do you play cricket? why don’t you write an article on cricket? what is the point of two column proofs? why does my stupid theater director try to schedule rehearsals on halloween and homecoming when he knows that everybody is going to skip them anyway? wow this is actually pretty fun, sitting here asking random questions.
happy days…
Whoops. I sometimes forget I’m talking to Americans. I mean, I just assume that you all buy into my warped intellect because you read Muse. But just in case, I was joking, guys. Corgis are cool. No lynchings, please.
s’ok. actually that’s probably why ur so cool.
it would be fun to lynch somebody today though…
JK! i’m not gonna lynch anybody! that’s not my usual form of entertainment anyway. my usual forms of entertainment are asking random questions and confusing people. but oh vell.
i’m gonna ask more random questions now. just cuz i have nothing better to do.
why is the sky blue? why does my brother make so much noise when he wanders around the house? why can’t i ever remember to bring my valve oil to school? speaking of school, why do I hate planners so much? why do we watch so many boring movies in english? why does everybody suddenly have a xanga? what is the purpose of gel pens? why am i sitting here looking around and making up random questions out of the things i see on my desk? (answer: cuz i’m booooored) why is my desk so small? what is the purpose of little brothers? why do some people hate monty python? when do i stop asking questions and go to bed? why do i even bother going to bed? why do i bother getting up in the morning either? how come lawisewoman never updates http://www.bagginses.com? (hilarious-lotr captions! but never updated grr.) how come the comics aren’t funny anymore? (seriously i haven’t laughed at a comics page in a newspaper for ages) why are musers twice as crazy as the rest of the world? why isn’t the whole world insane? or maybe the rest of the world is insane. is everybody insane? if everybody isn’t insane, then what the heck am i doing on the computer typing random questions right now? where did this whole question thing come from anyway? i mean here i am, little old (yes a whole 14 yrs!) ebeth the lurker, happily museblogging, and now suddenly deciding to type up a whole bunch of random questions cuz she’s bored. why doesn’t muse do an article on cockney? it rocks! the language/slang/whatever type thingamajig who knows what it is. why doesn’t muse do an article on….i don’t know…something completely random like….curtains? who invented curtains anyway? why do i suddenly have a strange desire to run away to new zealand instead of going to school and getting another load of long difficult projects that i’m gonna do at the last minute anyway but have weeks to worry about? wait…i think i just answered that…
maybe we should have a Random Questions Thread…
Mr. Baker,
My Corgi is a Cardigan corgi. They are more laid back, a bit more intelligent, sweeter and more patient than those annoying little Penbrooks. (The ones without the tails.) The Queen has penbrooks, which isn’t my taste at all. Cardigans are much more behaved and are just plain better. But guess what? In the US, there are only 400 Cardigans and about 1 thousand Penbrooks. That’s pretty sad. Nobody understands the beautiful personality of the Cardigan Corgi.
P.S.
Cardigans are much cuter too, at least when they’re brindle like mine is. Penbrooks are annoying blondes.
The only bad thing about Cardigans is that they’re more prone to hip displaysa. They been breeding brothers and sisters for so many years. Incest!!!!
Ebeth, I just meant, don’t even talk about the Russian Revolution!!!!
well then why’d u bring it up?
AAAH! NO!! I MEANT ABOUT THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION!!! NOOO!!!!! oh great i’m doomed to a life of silence. can you believe that?! I say one simple thing, I say, “fine, won’t say another word” i meant about the russian revolution! come on that’s not fair you’re not gonna make me never talk again are you? i mean that would just be OOF!!! *random mumblings, groanings, punching, scraping*
Random people: Ebeth the lurker has been gagged, handcuffed, and tied to a chair for her complete inability to shut up. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
ebeth: OOF!! ARRGH!! ERRGH GRR MUMBLE MUMBLE GRUNT!!!
Why does yourcorgi need to wear a cardigan? Is it cold over there? I’d buy it a sweatshirt and a pair of jogging trousers if I were you. Cardigans are so old-fashioned.
ARRGH!! What the heck is a cardigan? I know i’ve heard of them…
grr. i feel so deprived now.
i don’t know ever know what ur talking about. I WANNA MOVE TO EUROPE!!! *cries hysterically*
lol! jk. ohio’s cool. we have…football…and…erm…football…and…um…lots of people! obssessing over….football. ok. sure that works!
ok so another of my random questions list starting with what’s a cardigan like anyway? why do i have sudden insane desires to move to europe? why do all the movies we watch in english end up being 85% random dream/vision/prediction whatever stuff? why am i on this site so much? why do i like doing random questions so much?
oh! i have another technical computer-type question that i would like answered for real if anybody knows-ok my friend and i recorded this song on her sound recorder thing, and she emailed it to me. when she emailed it, it opened on my itunes thingamajig. just so u have the details if anybody knows anything about it. ok. xanga. on xanga there’s a thing that let’s you play songs but they have to come off the internet. how do i get the song (on itunes) onto the internet so i can play it on my xanga? (i don’t have any other websites i can put it on)
is that like impossible or is there an answer? does somebody know it? what is the meaning of life? arrgh…there i go again…
it’s sorta cold here in ohio…rach says it’s kinda cold in michigan too…i got a really funny email about michigan today. are we allowed to post like chain emails and stuff or no? anyhoo…um…yah…so…hi! whazzup?
just like posting stuff? me too. i’m gonna go now. and i really mean that. really. honestly. i’m dead serious about this. I’m going now. yes i mean what i say. another second and i’m gone! ok maybe 2 seconds. or 3. doesn’t matter. i’m outta here. so long! cu! have a nice day! later peoples! eat your weetabix! I’m going now! goodbye!
Hi Ebeth. The answer is nope (to your question about chain emails).
I wish I could answer all your questions as easily.
Oh! I can answer the cardigan question too. What’s a cardigan? It’s a sweater that buttons down the front.
ooh i totally knew that *coughcough* lol! jk! thanx.
A cardingan is a pullover for people who can’t pull things over, so it buttons up the front, and it’s only worn by old gentlemen who smoke smelly pipes. And then only when gardening.
Your iTunes software has hijacked the XP ile associatons list, probably the entry for mp3 files, which is why the song opens in iTunes. But it doesn’t really matter what you have installed as the default client. You should still be able to use FileZIlla or similar to upload it to a website via FTP. Create a simple href link to your mp3 in an HTML page, and most modern browsers will automatically stream it. OK?
I think you mean Pembrokes. They’re named after an old Welsh county. So are Cardigans. The counties are now called Sir Benfro and Ceredigion, because the Welsh have got their language back. But the corgis are still Pembrokes and Cardigans. So are the pullovers. It’s very confusing.
um…i don’t know what filezlla is…i don’t have an mp3 either. i don’t have a website…thanx anyway…
benfro is a cool name.
benfrobenfrobenfrobenfro.
so kitkat, your dog is old and gardens, and smokes smelly pipes? interesting….
lol!
i doesn’t wants to do mine homeworks…huzzah for the random adding of s!
hellos what’s ups? hows ares yous alls doings?
hey pb&j, are you an admin or no? like can you post other people’s stuffins like the GAPAs? random question of the day #12…
yes i’m numbering them now. mwahaha…
Nope, not an admin as such. I just have Special Status. I could do all sorts of things behind the scenes if I wanted to. If I could work out how. Green bunnies. Someone’s name printed backwards. Thirty new topics, all about cheese. Terrifying, isn’t it? I think I’ll go to bed and sleep off the panic.
AAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!! HEEEEELLLPPP!!! NOOOOO!!!!! *hides under the bed*
30 TOPICS ABOUT CHEESE???
AAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!!! OR DON’T!!! YOUR CHOICE!!! YOU COULD ALSO SCREAM, PANIC, AND HELPLESSLY RUN AROUND IN CIRCLES, WHICH I THINK IS WAY MORE FUN ANYWAY!!! WHY AM I STILL SHOUTING? OH YES! GREEN BUNNIES??!! AAAAAAH!!!! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!! FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!
* he he he*
I must admit, you don’t need too many cardigans or winter jogging gear in the desert, even when it is winter, it hardly reaches 50 degrees. Yay for the desert! Except the one drawback. When it’s the summer, it gets to be 123 degrees. Seriously!
So, my dog is really not in need of his furrily fine coat. (Though I must admit that isn’t really a word. That word being “furrily.”)
And you can pretend I’m English. One of my relatives, I think it was my great-aunt somebody had a mom who lived in England. She’s rather proud of her mother’s heritage and spreads it around like cream cheese on a bagel.
P. S. Does England even have bagels?
Just wondering.
English as I’m from Britian. —–> I am certainly quite capable of speaking English, thus I am American, which is utterly correct. However, I am not American Cheese. BLEH!
i’m technically half-british, cuz my nana and granddad are both actually from england, but they moved to florida, which is where my dad was born. so he’s american but he’s british. which means i’m half british but i’m american. which makes no sense at all but there you go. i have like a whole bunch of cousins there that i don’t know to. hey pb&j have you ever heard of cantebury bears?
hey kitkat, where do you live anyway? like state-wise?
i would hate to live in the desert. i’m a yooper! rock on yoopers! snooooooooooooooowww!!!!!!!!
i think england has bagels.
furrily is a cool word even though it’s not a word which means it is a word because i declare it a word and i, as you of course know, am the SAD-Supreme Absolute Dictator. Therefore, my word is law, and my word is furrily, except not because it’s actually your word, but i declare that you have the power to make it a word, because i’m cool like that.
So furrily is now officially declared a word, by the official…person. huzzah! everybody rejoice! 
yes i’m strange. going now.
England has bagels now. We never used to. Only in the last five years have they made the trip across the ocean. The trouble is their shape. No prow, no stern and no keel. And that hole in the middle is just where you’d want to put a mast, so no possiblity of sails either. How the doughnut ever made across to you is beyond me. I think a family of doughnuts must have stowed away in an airship.
Greetings, fellow semi-Brit. Strangely enough, the great Captain Pelluw is half British too.
Yes, I’ve come across Canterbury Bears. They are a particularly expensive form of the Teddy Bear, which your President Rooseveldt inspired in around 1900 by not shooting a real one. He shot plenty of others, so I can’t quite see why the one he didn’t was immortalised in cloth, but there you are. Anyway, they’ve been a craze ever since, giving rise to such wonders as Pooh, who you may have met via the Disney travesty, and Paddington, who you probably haven’t.
i’ve met paddington. you mean the little one w/the yellow hat or whatever? yellow something…and a funny hat. that’s all I remember. besides the fact that he was named paddington.
yah and cantebury, my second cousins or something work at cantebury bears. they sent us all bears w/ their sigs on the foot.
we wooooooooooon our first itk thing!!! happy days…
itk is in the know btw. it’s this geeky quiz-type thing. like jeopardy. but you don’t get money. anyhoo…we won! and i actually answered a question right, which is amazing (don’t laugh! it is amazing!) about James I, like his last name. Stuart. yah. fun stuff.
there was a question about the muses!!! and i pressed the buzzer like half a second too late! i was sad
somebody on the other team got it instead…
anyhoo…going now…later
Americans like fat. I don’t know why.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
McDonalds
But there is one good side. There is a lot of restuaraunts in my town that serve palast indians, etc. foods.
Yep, Paddington of the yellow hat and the duffle coat. Don’t forget the duffle coat. Named after the London train station.
KREAMY KRISP!!! IT’S CALLED KREAMY KRISP!!!!
NOT krispy kreme! KREAMY KRISP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIE FIEND!!! BUT NOT REALLY!! JUST SORTA PRETEND TO DIE AND WAKE BACK UP!!!! CUZ UR COOL!!! BUT IT IS STILL CALLED KREAMY KRISP!!!
*pantpantdeepbrath* ok. I’m ok. i’m going insane. but that’s ok.
COME ON TO THIS KREAMY KRISP THREAD NOW!!!!!!!!!!
ello kricket…very quiet around here isn’t it?
KREAMY KRISP!!!
so…erm…named yourself Queen of anything lately?
yeah!! KREAMY KRISP!!!!!!!
*gasp* I had kreamy krisp a couple days ago!!! yuuuum…
I name myself Queen of Unusual Amazing Killer Spiders. Or QUARK!!!
I love to say quark. quark. quark. yay!
KREAMY KRISP!!!
KREAMY KRISP!!!
nice, mousie, although I favor chocolate eclairs myself.
I like chocolate eclairs and KREAMY KRISP…………. I actually have some upstairs right now……….. wait how’d we get onto food…..
I actually read the original Pooh Bear books, and Paddington of duffle coat fame. I wasn’t a teletubby kid.
Do you mean Pellew? BECAUSE I LOVE CAPTAIN PELLEW! HE”S MY HERO! I know everyone makes a huge deal outta Horatio, but Pellew rocks. So does Matthews, and Finch (RIP), and Archie (also RIP) and Midshipman Ifregithisname from the one with the crazy captain, (RIP) and.. and… and Bush, and the evil Irish captain, even though, he’s well, evil, (RIP) and lotsa good stuff.
*gasp*
bush….I love bush…
*hysterical sobs*
what’s ur fav hornblower book people? this should be on the polling place huh? oh vell. mine’s Lieutenant Hornblower. gotta love the insane evil captain. and i love the name buckland. i don’t even like him all that much i just like his name.
I still read the origional pooh bear when i’m really bored and haven’t been to the library. then i make fun of it. but that’s just me, i make fun of cool stuff.
If you guys are wondering what I’m doing up this early i’m DOING MY HOMEWORK!!!! cuz i have another theater thing going on all day today. grr. i have no life anymore!!!!!! HHEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!!
I got lost…..
I never read Hornblower, but has anyone ever read that book… whatsitcalled… about the rabbits? it is SOOO good! it looks dumb, but it is very deep and phycological and has stuff about comunism and prophets and whatnot. Has charecters named Blackberry, Silver, Hazel, and Fiver (the prophet) about how Fiver has this prophecy that all the hills of his homeland are covered with blood, but only a few rabbits belive him. Fire Bringer is a total rip-off of this story.
WAHHH!!!! Get this out of the previous posts, Mr. Coontz!!!!!
WAHH!!!! Get this out of the previous posts, Mr. Coontz!!!!!
(now my sister is balancing a chewed up raisin on the tip of her tongue)