Natural Chuck
BBC – In pictures: Prince Harry returns home
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Prince Charles spoke of his relief that his son had returned home safely but said he now understood more acutely the worries felt by the parents of other British service personnel
He’s got a green onion pinned to his lapel!
(I’m not sure whether to file this under War & Peace or Food.)
Update:
Press leeks! Bwah-hah-hah-hah!
Update II:
In-shallot! Bwah-hah-hah-hah-hah!
March 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Will someone please explain why Prince Charles has a green onion on his lapel !!!???
March 1st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Is he warding off mini-vampires?
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 am
It means “By God’s will” (In’shallot).
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:48 am
POW is takea leek.
You know for years I thought it was the lack of representations and the taxes and housing lobsterbacks in private domiciles, but no that’s not the real reason we left. The English are just damn too strange for us, that’s it really.
I been reading Indian Summer and Ima lern that Winston Churchill (to his credit .5 American) kept a budgerigar upon his pate when receving folks, said budgerigar was named Toby…. all these years I thought it was a cat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budgerigar
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 am
Now I’m thinking hard, real hard. Is there any US President that could receive a ViceRoy wearing a budgerigar upon is pate? (That’s a ahead btw)
I can see Alice Roosevelt but sadly she was never elected.
Okay…. here’s my list.
Most likely Lydon, he would have had it fried for lunch tho.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:05 am
Hey! Where my QL linefeeds?
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
In comments at my place, someone reminded me that Shakespeare has the Prince of Wales wearing a leek in Henry V. It’s a Welsh thing. We wouldn’t understand.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Yeah, I saw that. We could take it to be a Welsh Onion. It would be interesting to know precisely what it represents, but really I just thought to point it out. I love that man, Chuck.
March 2nd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
He seems to have turned about a pretty good son, which is not a bad recommendation.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:22 am
Golly you colonials! Saturday was March 1st, St David’s Day, the Welsh national day, when all Welsh, including the regimental goat, are supposed to wear something to express their Welshness. The Prince chose a young leek. Others choose daffodils. We English are of course above all that sort of thing. I can see Lyndon tucking into a budgie even as I sit here. He’d eat it with his fingers, possibly with a very hot chili sauce. Anybody here reading the Caro biography of LBJ?
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:16 am
Yes, read the first thee (guess we don’t get the forth) Paths to Power was a hoot.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:49 am
Oh lord I’d forgotten all about that. And Mark Steyn even did Deliliah as his song of the week.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 am
The Welsh are being a bit obnoxious at the moment, their rugby team beat England the other week and they’re not good winners. Maybe the English’ll take it out on the Scots this Saturday (I’ve got a ticket!).
Paths to Power’s great fun. Coke Stevenson. Frank Hamer. The fat guy with the ballot box. The odd airtime sales policy at the radio station.
Surely the next one’ll be out before too long?