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On 1/7/2018 at 09:41, drol said:

Sir Hereward didn't Wake up that morning. Oh, now this is a SirCreepish post!

Drol—It’s a virtue not a vice!

nothing wrong with an amusing quip along with the post.  In fact it would be nice to see a bit more levity around here.  I appreciate your effort, well done!

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5 hours ago, Sir Creep said:

Drol—It’s a virtue not a vice!

nothing wrong with an amusing quip along with the post.  In fact it would be nice to see a bit more levity around here.  I appreciate your effort, well done!

SC

 

I was referring to the fact the joke came about a month later.:P

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2 minutes ago, drol said:

I was referring to the fact the joke came about a month later.:P

 

Well, that's the crux of a good joke. All you need is...

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Speaking of jokes, every time I see this thread I think of the joke "The Aristocrats" and I chuckle.

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5 minutes ago, deadsox said:

Speaking of jokes, every time I see this thread I think of the joke "The Aristocrats" and I chuckle.

 

Yeah, those cats are hilarious.

 

 

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6 minutes ago, deadsox said:

Speaking of jokes, every time I see this thread I think of the joke "The Aristocrats" and I chuckle.

 

Good idea for a DDP theme team, that joke.

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40 minutes ago, drol said:

I was referring to the fact the joke came about a month later.:P

If someone tells a joke in the forest and no one hears it....

(LOL apologies Drol....I only just saw this which is painfully obvious :( 

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Prince Carlos of Hohenzollern has died after falling from the 21st storey of a Frankfurt hotel.

 

He was released on parole after being convicted of fraud in 2014.

 

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On 2/23/2018 at 16:22, msc said:

 

Well, that's the crux of a good joke. All you need is...

 

timing.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

Anyone who spots that this terrible joke is a reference to the great Paul Eddington on A Bit of Fry and Laurie gets a cookie, providing they buy it for themselves...



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Now, I'm posting this just out of sheer interest.

 

Here is the death notice of Lady Carey Elizabeth Bassett (nee Coke), daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/224353/basset

 

Wiki (mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coke,_5th_Earl_of_Leicester#Marriage_and_family

 

Now, her wedding was attended by The Queen Mother and there we go, some film archive footage from her wedding in April 1960 was captured by the East Anglian Film Archive, available here: http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/146003

 

Well worth a watch if you are at all interested in the fashions, the cars of the period or page boys in white satin outfits.

 

Also, watch out for the chap in the flat cap being halted by the police. Think you can spot someone from the lower classes trying to crash a nob's wedding? This guy did! It's hilarious.

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10 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Now, I'm posting this just out of sheer interest.

 

Likewise.

The car in which she arrived at the church is still on the road:

 

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Gosh, the car outlasted the happy couple.

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Times Obituary for John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, historian and TV personality,  better known as John Julius Norwich who has died aged 88: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/john-julius-norwich-obituary-zwfmqq3gd

 

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Julius_Norwich

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3553199/

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You know, I feel we are always late to the party with this thread. So why not have one of my world famous lists? If you are looking for a nob or two around Christmas to fill out your DDP package, it might do to consider some of these. Why have diamonds and pearls when you can have Dukes, Marquesses and Earls?

 

I've gone for those over 80 currently or who will be over 80 in 2019.  In order of seniority. Wiki is my friend here, any errors are theirs not mine.

 

Dukes:

 

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921; d. 2021)

James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose (b. 1935)

James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn (b. 1934)

Prince Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent (b. 1935)

Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans (b. 1939)

 

Marquesses:

 

David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensbury (b. 1929)

Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (b. 1932; d. 2020)

Michael Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter (b. 1935)

David Pratt, 6th Marquess Camden (b. 1930) - No individual Wiki page.

Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (b. 1926)

Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland (b. 1937)

 

Earls:

 

England:

 

Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk, 14th Earl of Berkshire (b. 1935)

Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey and 9th Earl of Abingdon (b. 1931)

George Coventry, 13th Earl of Coventry (b. 1939)

 

Scotland:

 

Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford (b. 1927)

Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland (b. 1921; d. 2019)

Malcolm Erskine, 17th Earl of Buchan (b. 1930) - No individual Wiki Page

John Eric Drummond, 9th Earl of Perth (b. 1935)

Randolph Stewart, 13th Earl of Galloway (b. 1928; d. 2020)

Ian Maitland, 18th Earl of Lauderdale (b. 1937)

Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine (b. 1924)

David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie (b. 1926)

Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney (b. 1938)

Ian Ogilvie-Grant, 13th Earl of Seafield (b. 1939)

Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery and 3rd Earl of Midlothian (b. 1929)

Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow (b. 1939)

 

Great Britain:

 

Robert Edgcumbe, 8th Earl of Mont Edgcumbe (b. 1939; d. 2021)

Charles Cadogan, 8th Earl Cadogan (b. 1937)

 

Ireland:

 

William Anthony Nugent, 13th Earl of Westmeath (b. 1928)

Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda (b. 1937)

Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran (b. 1938)

John Savile, 8th Earl of Mexborough (b. 1931) - No individual Wiki Page

Robert Jocelyn, 10th Earl of Roden (b. 1938) - No individual Wiki Page

Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim (b. 1935; d. 2021)

Thomas Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford (b. 1933)

George Dawson-Damer, 7th Earl of Portarlington (b. 1938) - No individual Wiki Page

Michael Annesley, 12th Earl of Annesley (b. 1933) - No individual Wiki Page

Arthur Stuart, 8th Earl Castle Stewart (b. 1928)

Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 8th Earl of Donoughmore (b. 1927)

Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse (b. 1936)

Gerald Knox, 7th Earl of Ranfurly (b. 1929; d. 2018) - No individual Wiki Page

 

United Kingdom:

 

Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton (b. 1934)

Keith Rous, 6th Earl of Stradbroke (b. 1937) - No individual Wiki Page

David Howard, 7th Earl of Effingham (b. 1939) - No individual Wiki Page

Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns (b. 1939)

Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl Cranbrook (b. 1933)

Edward Baldwin, 4th Earl Balwin of Bewdley (b. 1938; d. 2021)

Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie (b. 1939)

Shane Alexander, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis (b. 1935)

Nicholas Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd Earl of Swinton (b. 1939; d. 2021)

Edited by YoungWillz
Edited as at 5 August 2021 to show deaths/new wiki pages
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19 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

 

What a life - RIP. Also, perhaps the first peer to go viral. 

 

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I'm no fan of the tories but I had a lot of respect for this woman .Who hasn't wanted to give a politician the finger .Respect!

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