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GrapeApeGrapeApe Posts: 600 Senior Member
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RIP to one of the longest reigning monarchs in history

Guess we'll have to get used to saying "King Charles" now.

"For longer range, use a bigger case. For bigger game, use a bigger bullet." - Dan Johnson
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  • Wambli SkaWambli Ska Posts: 5,434 Senior Member
    #2
    She was an amazing woman!  May she RIP ❤️

    It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎

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  • coolgunguycoolgunguy Posts: 6,637 Senior Member
    #3
    I know it comes with the territory, but I always felt like she was head and shoulders above the rest of the world "leaders" when it comes to class and grace. Yes, I know their PM does most (all?) of the heavy lifting, and maybe that has a lot to do with my perception. Setting aside my beliefs when it comes to monarchies of any flavor, I think the world is a poorer place following her passage. 
    "Bipartisan" usually means that a bigger than normal deception is happening.
    George Carlin
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  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,362 Senior Member
    #4
    Certainly is the end of an era...
    Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
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  • bklysenbklysen Posts: 525 Senior Member
    #5
    She was a Class Act, and the world is a lesser place without her. 
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  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 12,771 Senior Member
    #6
    Don't think any of those in line can meet the bar she set
    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
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  • PFDPFD Posts: 1,901 Senior Member
    #7
    She fixed a truck in WWII.
    😢🙏
    That's all I got.

    Paul
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  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,362 Senior Member
    #8
    PFD said:
    She fixed a truck in WWII.
    😢🙏
    She was a driver/mechanic. 


    Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
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  • BigslugBigslug Posts: 9,875 Senior Member
    #9
    bklysen said:
    She was a Class Act, and the world is a lesser place without her. 
    THIS:  25 years after the Battle of Britain, she says, "We're going to set a gigantic stone plaque into the middle of the floor of Westminster Abbey that reads 'REMEMBER WINSTON CHURCHILL'"

    The woman got it. :'(
    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • jaywaptijaywapti Posts: 5,116 Senior Member
    #10
    Every year on 9/11 the Star Spangled Banner is played at Buckingham Palace, the Queen started it on 9/11/2001, I am saddened buy her passing, i always though she was a great lady.

    JAY
    THE DEFINITION OF GUN CONTROL IS HITTING THE TARGET WITH YOUR FIRST SHOT
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  • ZeeZee Posts: 28,444 Senior Member
    #11

    "To Hell with efficiency, it's performance we want!" - Elmer Keith
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  • rberglofrberglof Posts: 2,999 Senior Member
    #12
    She was a real Lady and loved her country!           
    RIP Queen Elizabeth
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  • zorbazorba Posts: 25,288 Senior Member
    #13
    I'm not exactly a fan of "Perfidious Albion", but the Queen was the last of a generation the likes of which we'll never see again. Goddess Bless her, and may she dance in joy!
    -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"

    "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
    )O(
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  • ojrojr Posts: 1,344 Senior Member
    #14
    This was a person. a woman, of absolute global significance , she held true to her beliefs and her desire to work for her people , whoever they were, wherever they were.
    She was a person that has always had my utmost respect.

    Rip, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor.
    I'm not sure that the world will ever know another like you.
    The flight was uneventful, which is what one wants when one is transporting an Elephant.
     Reuters, Dec 2020.
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  • ojrojr Posts: 1,344 Senior Member
    #15
    As an aside
    She was heard to say, after Prince  Philip had moved forward and whispered something in her ear
    "Yes, You do have to talk to these people"
    Prince Philip wasn't quite the "Stuffed Shirt" that some of his peers were and didn't suffer fools at all.
    Still they had 73 years of Marriage, quite an achievement in a high profile and I'd image very demanding 
    lifestyle.

    The flight was uneventful, which is what one wants when one is transporting an Elephant.
     Reuters, Dec 2020.
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  • breamfisherbreamfisher Posts: 14,108 Senior Member
    #16
    3 drinks in by 1 PM. 


    Meh.
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  • GrapeApeGrapeApe Posts: 600 Senior Member
    #17
    Here's something to consider...
    Today is the first day, of most of the members here lives, of waking up WITHOUT HM Queen Elizabeth being the monarch of England.

    Imagine the number of Brits in this same situation, and that have NEVER sang "God save the King"
    I cannot imagine them changing a major word in "The Star Spangled Banner" at this stage of my life
    "For longer range, use a bigger case. For bigger game, use a bigger bullet." - Dan Johnson
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  • Wambli SkaWambli Ska Posts: 5,434 Senior Member
    #18


    Shortly before her death.  My kind of Lady!!!

    It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎

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  • CHIRO1989CHIRO1989 Posts: 14,855 Senior Member
    #19
    I would have LOVED to stand in her trophy room and heard the hunting stories, my maternal grandmothers side of the family are of UK descent, we were quite aware of the monarchy growing up, the Queen was made up of some stout materials.
    I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn away from their ways and live. Eze 33:11
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  • BigslugBigslug Posts: 9,875 Senior Member
    #20
    Catching snippets of the proceedings. . .

    Does anyone else find it a bit wrong that an English monarch, of this particular vintage, is being transported around Scotland in a hearse made by Mercedes Benz?
    WWJMBD?

    "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
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  • ojrojr Posts: 1,344 Senior Member
    #21
    Saw That,
    The one the other day had a single B on the back, much more appropriate.
    Don't really understand the switch the the Merc.
    The flight was uneventful, which is what one wants when one is transporting an Elephant.
     Reuters, Dec 2020.
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  • ojrojr Posts: 1,344 Senior Member
    #22
    The Hearse to her last rest had the leaping cat on the back. Much better.
    The flight was uneventful, which is what one wants when one is transporting an Elephant.
     Reuters, Dec 2020.
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  • Wambli SkaWambli Ska Posts: 5,434 Senior Member
    #23
    Personally I prefer Prince Phillip’s hearse.  A vintage Defender is in my bucket list of vehicles.


    It’s a °IIIII° thing 😎

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