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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: British Royals -- Uniquely Blunder-Prone?
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:06:26 -0000
References: <KPUFd.18$yf6.645@eagle.america.net> <cs9dtv$f7k$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu>


| stunts, involving an alligator and a greased piglet and a library
| reading room.

Not EQUIVALENT ACTS in any way to what Prince Harry, third in line to
succeed to the throne, did..

Harry is NOT just any twenty-year-old British kid. He fails to
understand that.

He has special RESPONSIBILITIES -- and with those responsibilities he
receives special PRIVILEGES -- NOT to be abused.

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor

"Doug McDonald" <> wrote in message
news:cs9dtv$f7k$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...

| D. Spencer Hines wrote:
|
| > Are British Royals uniquely blunder-prone and abnormally stupid
| > [some of them] or is it just the far more aggressive British Press
| > that creates these hilarious British Royal Blunders, SNAFU's and
| > Embarrassments -- a combination of the two?
| >
|
| In the case of a 20 year old probably over-testosteroned guy
| with an actual chin, such activities point to something
| even stranger ... normality. Such people often do somewhat
| dubious things on a whim. I'm sure that both our recent
| Presidential candidates did similar stupidities while at
| a certain east coast college. Even **I** while at a
| more staid Southern school was party to a couple of
| stunts, involving an alligator and a greased piglet and a library
| reading room.
|
| Doug McDonald

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