A few fun snippets from the interwebs.
It’s been established that Princess Diana’s driver on the night she died was working for the French secret service.
The Da Vinci Code film may not be shown, as alleged “historians” Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent are suing their own publisher alleging that Dan Brown “copied” their trashy stuff about Mary Magdalene and secret Jesus bloodlines. Does this constitute an admission that their “research” is fictional? Surely genuine historians wouldn’t worry about a dramatisation of their work?
And shadowy royal machinations may terminate Prince Charles’ legal action about his diaries. Perhaps Charlie could set up a rather spiffy pseudonymous blog? Any suggestions for a name?
TamponPundit?
Not bad!
How about “The Crowned Lad”?
“TamponPundit”
Apt, but eew!
That taped phone conversation haunts me when I see pictures of Charles and Camila and turns my stomach every time. Of all the things in this world that you could want to be…
Little Green Footmen?
No question, Charles should blog as Peter Costello.
The Judge should retrospectively award damages in the form of the royalties that Leigh and Baigent received for the sales of their book following the publication of the Da Vinci code. My girlfriend bought their book after reading Brown’s novel… Lord knows how many other people did. They should be thankful, really.
On the flipside, maybe if Leigh and Baigent win the case… people might be more cautious before popularizing pseudo-history in novels or films. I’m just waiting for the PRC to fund a dramatization of Zheng He’s “discovery” of America
I would have thought it impossible to sue over the adoption/adaption of a historical thesis, but this, however, was cute: “Sir Leigh Teabing, has a name that is an anagram of Leigh and Baigent.”
As for Charlie’s blog… how about “Regnum Prodeo”? (Not sure if the Latin is correct).
To be fair Christy, he didn’t say he wanted to be a tampon, he said he wanted to live in her knickers.
Then he said that knowing his luck, the only way his wish would come true was as a tampon, disposable rather than permanent. All good, dirty, self-deprecating fun with a typical posh bodily-function joke attached.
The man has his loony moments, but I don’t feel that one was especially one of them.
Tigtog, thank you for clearing that up for me. I never knew that important detail and do feel a lot better about the whole episode now.
I quite like Charles’ interest in the environment, and particularly his focus on water and sanitation services in the global south (he is the President of WaterAID).
How about Architect Rex?
And I would have thought that the Leigh and Baigent suit would have sparked a similar suit from the French authors of L’Or de Rennes (“Rennes’ Gold�) and their other predecessors.
Not to mention the original (modern) authors of the Les Dossiers Secrets.
Holy Blook, Holy Grail is still the most entertaining and coherent of the modern conspiracy theory books for my money, though.
With the possible exception of local classic ‘The Cosmic Conspiracy’, by Stan Deyo. (Phallic Image Warning)
Nick
How about Charles In Charge?
Windsor Not, The Royal Me, Let’s Talk About Rex.
“Ich blog”. Bloggingham Palace. An Ear To The Ground. Wales Tales. The Road To Kingdom. After Coronation Blog. Harry’s Dad. Uncrowned Timber. Throneaway. Blogger On The Gilt Balcony. Anonymous Prince. It’s Good To Be The King. Camilla’s Parked her Bowels. I Heart Henri Paul.
Hmm. I reckon Andrew and Tony’s suggestions were funnier.
Seriously though, one of his more switched on advisers like Clive James should get him thinking about it. It could easily be tacked onto his existing website.
Chuck’s always crapping on about the importance of being with touch with his subjects. And it’s a cost-effective way that would bump his cool Britannia cred up no end. I’d imagine though the comments would be heavily moderated by the Administrator Royal or the First Lord of the Blogchamber. Especially for the Cromwell jokes.
Which reminds me of a nice little story. It used to be the custom that names for British battleships were put forward by the First Lord of the Admiralty for pretty much a token stamp of approval by the reigning Monarch. But then, enter Winston Churchill.
When Winnie was boss cockie at Admiralty House in the run up to the Great War, he thought it was time some RN ships of the line acknowledged the nation’s rich parliamentary history and so put forward a couple of battleship names that made George 5 blanch and whip out the red pen. Firstly, no way was Georgie gonna let a dreadnaught be named after the bloke that topped one of his ancestors, one O. Cromwell. Secondly, as an old Navy man, George could see how much rhyming fun the coarser elements of the Senior Service would have with a ship paying homage to the second English PM called Pitt.
Just thought I’d share.
Nick,
Stan Deyo was a contributor and advertiser in NEXUS magazine - the Australian conspiracy magazine - it used to publish any conspiracy theory - just looked them up and they are still at it - “The Nazi/Al Queda connection”, “Britain’s secret war in Antarctica” and lots of “suppressed science” articles like “Healing with Urine” and “Decloaking Pathogens with low frequency Soundwaves” check out for a good laugh at http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles.html
And before Stan Deyo was US stoner Robert Anton Wilson - a mate of Leary’s who has lived way past his peers, he has a website http://www.rawilson.com/main.shtml - his thought of the month is that Pat Robertson is right about assassinations.. & his links page has a list of “20 BEST WEBSITES TO VISIT WHILE STONED”
There is a big Australian connection to an alternative Jesus and Mary M. story via Sydney divinity academic Dr Barbara Thiering: According to Barbara, Jesus lived to around 76 (last reference to him was in Ephesus, AD 70) had three children Tamar (a girl), Jesus (Justus) (his heir), and a second son, he was married to Mary Magdalene and, after a divorce, later to Lydia. With Lydia, he had a second daughter - (Celebrity marriages, they never last!!) The ABC screened a documentary in 1990. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Thiering
Chuckles?
Ha! I wonder if Charlie’s reading. Does he google for mentions in the Colonies?
Of course there was a conspiracy:
…..and other tasteless jokes about Di at
http://chaostime.com/jokes/separate/joke14.html
My Dad was living in Paris when Diana was turned into Mercedes mash. I asked him what the reaction on the ground at the time was and he said it was basically an eloquent Gallic shrug followed by “Where else should an beautiful English Princess die but in Paris at extreme velocities. Entendu?”