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By The Armorer on March 29, 2006 | | Comments (16)

From an email:

Interesting Year 1981:

1. Prince Charles got married.

2 . Liverpool crowned soccer champions of Europe.

3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.

4. Pope died. (Where's the before-you-post-it fact checker?)

Interesting year 2005:

1. Prince Charles got married.

2. Liverpool crowned soccer champions of Europe.

3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.

4. Pope died.

Lesson learned? - The next time Charles gets married, someone warn the pope.

As Bill notes - bet the farm on Liverpool.

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By cw4(ret)billt on March 29, 2006 7:51 AM
The Pope didn't die in 1981. John Paul II was *shot* four times, but he survived the assassination attempt...
 
By cw4(ret)billt on March 29, 2006 7:57 AM
My take on it is, any time Charles gets married, bet the ranch on Liverpool...
 
By Maggie on March 29, 2006 9:27 AM
Chief! You beat me to it! John Paul I died in 1978. My favorite Prince Charles joke was one where Princess Diana supposedly says "Prince Charles proves that not all rulers are twelve inches." *delivered with snotty English accent*
 
By cw4(ret)billt on March 29, 2006 9:59 AM
Supposedly, the pickup line Charles delivered to Di was, "If you think my *ears* are big..."
 
By ry on March 29, 2006 10:35 AM
(Along the lines of the old Timex commercial) Pope JP2, takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on March 29, 2006 3:02 PM
Ry - You're not supposed to mention *licking* with FbL lurking about.
   
By JimC on March 29, 2006 5:24 PM
Sorry, John I corrected him from whom you got this tidbit. Should have done a send to all rather than just the Catholic historian who perpetrated this woeful attempt at humor.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on March 29, 2006 5:50 PM
Jim - I take it the "Catholic historian" is still horked about Hank the Eighth and that whole Catherine of Aragon thing...
 
By Maggie on March 29, 2006 10:59 PM
Chief - Catherine of Aragon? That's a long time to hold a grudge. I'm fine with that one. However, me and mine still find this a sore spot.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on March 29, 2006 11:19 PM
An unruly, drunken mob of laborers, sailors, apprentices, and hoodlums gathered at the gates of the convent. Hmmmpf--and you a Navy groupie. The same bunch tried to burn St. Rose Church a couple of nights later and were driven off by fifty cops and *Army* militia...
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 30, 2006 2:31 AM
The Catholic Historian? Feh! Fie! Ah, well.
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 30, 2006 2:44 AM
Bill - IIRC, the Navy was for a long time the most 'catholic' of the services, the Army officer corps being a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Anglicans and Methodists...
 
By cw4(ret)billt on March 30, 2006 6:24 AM
Yup. But that happened post-Civil War, when word got out that you could eat fish in the Navy and nobody would give it a second thought. But even during WWII, Catholics in the Navy still rejoiced in the sobriquet "mackerel snappers"...
 
By Maggie on March 30, 2006 12:03 PM
"mackerel snappers"... lol! I remember people in my neighborhood calling each other that! One of those cases where the offended group appropriates the slur for themselves. As far as the sailors and the convent story.............clearly that was incorrect information. Brahmin propaganda unfairly impugning good sailors. Who are you calling a groupie? The rotation happens to welcome all branches of the military. My ex was an MP out of Fort Hamilton. There's a JetBlue pilot that makes a point of taking me to dinner whenever he is in Boston and he was in the Air Force for 15 years. Why last summer there was even a submariner from the Canadian Navy who was on an exchange program in Newport. I am an equal opportunity Princess.
 
By ry on March 30, 2006 9:21 PM
(Okay, I know it's bad form and all to pick on our northern cousins, but....) THe Canadians have WORKING submarines?
 
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