Bless The Globe and all the people who write for them. They have to be the most creative people writing now that The Weekly World News is gone. Each week, The Globe manages to come up with something that makes you say, "How do they get away with that?" This week they have some report about Joran Van Der Sloot attacking a guard with a knife. Hmm, unless she was a defenseless woman I don't see it. The guy is a bully except to people who can kick his ass, and I don't think he would do it.
Anyway, the cover mostly has Prince Charles and the reports that he is suffering from memory loss and fighting Alzheimer's. Well, I think most of us are fighting against Alzheimer's because we don't want it. It does not actually say he has it and is fighting it. As for memory loss, I find myself on one side of the room many times and have no idea why I got up in the first place. I assume it is either for food or booze, but I think people just have memory loss from time to time and this is not a big deal.
I agree with Enty. One time I found my mother hysterically crying. She was upset because she could not remember where she put something, and really thought she had Alzheimer's Disease. She did not, and ended up passing away from Colon Cancer with a mind as sharp as a tack.
ReplyDeletePrince Charles doesn't have Alzheimer's, but he is an idiot. Does that count?
ReplyDelete"I find myself on one side of the room many times and have no idea why I got up in the first place"
ReplyDeleteEnty: This is called "destinesia" - or at least that's what we call it (the act of going somewhere, like another room, and then when you arrive, forgetting why you went there in the first place). We have been trying to figure out how to get the word "desitnesia" in the dictionary. Since you know the feeling, perhaps you can help us!
I think the people of England would love for Charlie to pass the crown over to Prince William when the Queen dies one day.
ReplyDeleteHe has said many times he will never do that.
Prince Charles made a statement about the problem of Alzheimers: "The Prince of Wales has warned about the potential "catastrophic" effect of the increase in Alzheimer's Disease because of the rapidly ageing population." He is fighting it in the sense of supporting more money being spent on research, not him having the illness. Very creative spin on The GLobe's part, though.
ReplyDeleteWho is Prince Charles??????
ReplyDeletelol @ looserdude
ReplyDeleteDid he call his equestrian-faced spouse, "Diana?" Is he running around the palace, wrapped in cotton, yelling "Pull my string! Pull my string!" Has he been playing dress-up with ye olde crown & scepter in mummy's closet?
ReplyDeleteIf so, he could have Alzheimers.
ths shock would be if he DIDN'T have memory loss. when you get older---and he and i are about the same age---the circuits are full. i can remember shit that happened when i was 5.
ReplyDeleteas far as where i just left my shopping cart? not so much.
Well, it could go a long way towards explaining why he dumped Diana for Camilla.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'.
I want to know more about the story in the upper left corner. Where is the original Green Hornet now??
ReplyDeleteI can actually see Van Der Sloot stabbing a guard. I bet he is wearing thin in prison.
ReplyDelete@Moose - "destinesia" :) Love it!
I love that they spun an Alzheimer's charity story into the Prince losing his mind. Thank god for tabloids.
ReplyDeleteWhat Looserdude said.
ReplyDelete@penelope -
ReplyDeleteif not remembering where I put something is a sign of Alzheimer's, then I was in trouble when I was 20. : )
I don't know about dementia, but after that recorded tampon phone conversation, I always thought he was a bit weird. Imagine thinking you are wooing someone with that dialogue. And yet Camilla loved it, because it was a poke in the eye to her rival Diana.
ReplyDelete@ looserdude: When the very rich are idiots or a bit nutty, it's called "eccentric". :)
@Mango - Recorded tampon conversation?? What is that about??
ReplyDelete@MCH - Here's a cut and paste from the web (rather than me rehashing it on my netbook; keep hitting two keys at once)
ReplyDeleteIn 1993, the Australian tabloid New Idea published a secretly recorded late-night 1989 cell phone conversation between Prince Charles and his mistress, Camilla Parker-Bowles. During roughly six minutes of sexual banter, the future king of England said the words, "I want to feel my way along you, all over you and up and down you and in and out." Then, "Oh God, I'll just live inside your trousers or something — it would be much easier."
Camilla replied, "What are you going to turn into, a pair of knickers? Oh, you're, you're going to come back as a pair of knickers."
"Or, God forbid a Tampax. Just my luck!"
"You are a complete idiot. Oh, what a wonderful idea."
"My luck to be chucked down the lavatory and go on and on forever. Swirling round on the top, never going down."
"Oh, Darling!" said Camilla.
"Until the next one comes through."
"Oh, perhaps you could come back as a box."
"What sort of box?"
"A box of Tampax, so you could just keep going."
Charles said, "That's true."
....And the sexy-tampon-royal-reincarnation meme was born. Dana Carvey performed a Saturday Night Live skit, in which he played Charles renouncing his claim to the throne so that he could live out his days as a tampon in the trousers of the woman he loved. Academics wrote papers about it. Its most recent mention in the news was less than a month ago. Charles may have married Camilla, but he will never live that Tampax thing down.
@Mango - Oh. My. God. He is the WORST dirty talker EVER!!!!!!! Ewwww!!!! LOL! Thanks for sharing (I think!?) ;)
ReplyDelete@mch-once a upon a time, Prince Charles called Camilla and said he was "envious" of her tampon because it was inside of her. He did this before they were married and I, believe, while he was married to Diana via a cell phone. Lovely chap.
ReplyDeletePhone sex with him would be revolting.
ReplyDeleteomg LOL. what a conversation!
ReplyDelete@Moose, maybe if we all start using "destinesia" on facebook, twitter, etc. it will catch on. Then when everyone is using the word, it will make it into the dictionary.
ReplyDelete"Destinesia" has been in the urban dictionary for a few years...and there was a short film with the same title.
ReplyDeleteOdd that it didn't catch on...
The tampon story is hideous!
ReplyDeletePeople throw around the term Alzheimer's too loosely. It's actually quite rare to have it, as most memory loss illness is attributed to dementia, which is more all encompassing. Just sayin'.
@Caydian - Or, he could just be a traditional Englishman.
ReplyDeleteOMG. It's too late for _ - _ = _!
ReplyDeleteHe's a weird bird, and I always thought he was just like his father. The others seem just like their mother.
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