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Oy To the King

I watched King Charles’ coronation this morning. I’m not British and some things confused me. For instance, they kept saying “The new king.” New? The guy’s a boomer - at least - right? Apparently, he is, at once, the oldest king ever and the newest king yet. Can we talk about the old lady with the crown? The wrinkled one on the right of him, in white, the crypt keeper, with genuine platinum hair. At first, I thought that it was Charles’ mother. But apparently, the old Queen died. Has anyone looked into that? Anyone who’s read Shakespeare knows how brutal royals can be and successions, over time, have earned a sketchy reputation. Anyway, I wish him well. I wouldn’t want to live a life where everyone around me moves up a notch if something sudden and nasty happened to me. . . Wobster’s Dictionary, word of the day: Coronation: “when you put a target on someone’s back” *Is it me, or is his family so high school - why? slang: ‘why’ = because I said so

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Date: 5/6/2023 10:47:00 AM
Your sarcasm shines. My wife was watching it as I sat and thought what a waste of time. I think the people who are so enthralled by it live in a fantasy world.
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Anais Vionet
Date: 5/6/2023 11:06:00 AM
Many Americans live in a fantasy land - at least the brit’s is relatively harmless (now that the empire has deflated). My roommates and watched it (we got up at 5:15am). What the heck, it’s “history.”

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