From: Robert Bannister 

On 1/11/11 4:05 PM, Duggy wrote:
> On Nov 1, 5:21 pm, LFS  wrote:
>> On 01/11/2011 00:32, Duggy wrote:
>>> On Oct 31, 11:37 pm, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)"
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:11:18 -0700 (PDT), Duggy
>>>> wrote:
>
>>>>> How did she become Queen?  I didn't vote for her.
>
>>>> She became Queen by right of birth.
>
>>> An' how'd she get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on
>>> to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an'
>>> social differences in our society!...
>
>>>> How did you get the right to vote? Did existing citizens vote to give
>>>> you citizenship? Or are you, like me, someone whose citizenship is by
>>>> right of birth?
>
>>> Supreme power comes from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical
>>> aquatic ceremony.
>
>> Aquatic? I now have this surreal vision of a coronation conducted
>> through synchronised swimming.
>
> I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some
> moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!

I don't like to break it to you, mate, but the Queen did not attain her 
present position in the way you describe above, nor did any previous 
monarch. "The King is dead; long live the King!" - or Queen, but you 
will notice there is no mention of knife-like objects nor of sexually 
aroused Egyptian women.


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Robert Bannister
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