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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/23/2013 2:04:19 PM   
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I think Dennis Farina's finest role was on the hilarious "Get Shorty."  If you haven't seen it, you absolutely should.

Wait, what are we discussing here again?


See also "Big Trouble".


Also see Snatch, although there was a lot of Ray Barboni in Cousin Avi.

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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/23/2013 4:04:49 PM   
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I guess I just look for any excuse to drink wine. Royal baby . . . let's have wine. It's Tuesday . . . let's have wine. I made it to work in record time . . . let's have wine. You know---I always try to celebrate the important occasions in life.


I got my riding mower back today, after a month in the shop (and a month of having to mow my yard with a push-mower in this sweltering heat). That calls for a glass of Bordeaux!


I got my back waxed this past weekend. Think i'll make me a wine spritzer!

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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/24/2013 12:38:15 AM   
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Now that would warrant a drink.


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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/24/2013 4:06:08 AM   
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I've never seen so much news coverage dedicated to three peices of info (baby's sex, weight and time of birth). As for those morons stood outside Buckingham Palace taking photos of a peice of paper....well.......I have a word that I could use for them, but I think the forum would block it.




Paper enthusiasts?

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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/24/2013 5:08:00 PM   
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I guess this is good, but I was more bummed when I heard Dennis Farina passed.


As much as I liked Farina, he was nothing compared to the great and late Jerry Orbach as Det. Lennie Briscoe. As for this baby nonsense, it made me long for another mega trial or some sort of scandal. Anthony Weiner anyone?

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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/24/2013 6:37:02 PM   
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Who is paying for all that Monarchy crap?


Me. And all the other "subjects".


Looks like you guys are getting cheated. We only had to pay about a tenth for ALL our ex-presidents

"The US government spent nearly $3.7 million on former presidents in 2012, according to an analysis just released by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. That covers a pension, compensation and benefits for office staff, and the government also picks up the tab for other costs like travel, office space and postage."



"On 1 April 2012, the old Civil List and the Grants-in-Aid were replaced by the single Sovereign Grant. The British Parliament meets the cost of the Sovereign's official expenditure from public funds. This includes the costs of the upkeep of the various royal residences, staffing, travel and state visits, public engagements, and official entertainment. The Sovereign Grant funding system, which covers the royal costs, has been set at £36.1 million for the 2013-14 financial year."



Not really sure where you are getting your math there, but $3.7mil is only about 2.4mil GBP. That's about 7%. It's way less than a tenth. Not debating politics, just math. Pure math. (Yes, I think 3% is a lot. A million has a lot of zeroes.)

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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/25/2013 7:39:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		You are correct that 3% of millions, either dollars or pounds, is quite alot of money. However, I did use the modifier "about" a tenth, which should account for the +/- 3% variation.

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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/25/2013 7:50:25 AM   
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er... um... does this count as politics?


yes politics, but not Amurican politics so it doesn't count, more a sort of hobby politics, like model UN or a sorority election ....

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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/25/2013 9:51:21 AM   
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RE: Royal Baby and Wine - 7/25/2013 7:21:40 PM   
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er... um... does this count as politics?


yes politics, but not Amurican politics so it doesn't count, more a sort of hobby politics, like model UN or a sorority election ....



This is seriously funny and I had to show it to my Ms Greek Week wife, who 10 years later still steams at losing her sorority president election.

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