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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Ferret Date: 13 Sep 01 - 09:16 PM cloth eared twit? In the uk it's some one who is hard of hearing. all the best ferret |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: kendall Date: 13 Sep 01 - 09:09 PM cloth eared twit? what the hell is that? |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: kendall Date: 13 Sep 01 - 09:05 PM Like I said before, if you wish to go back and read it, I did not hear it myself. What I heard was the commentator talking about it. He mis spoke. Of course I know the difference. Actually, the melody for the SSB was taken from an old English drinking song. Maybe the queen has a sense of humor? Naw! she was probably serious. Anyway, this is one Yank who appreciated the gesture. |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 13 Sep 01 - 08:22 PM I think you mean the Queen, the Queen Mother is her mum.
You don't appreciate the Star Spangled Banner half enough, you yanks. Good tune, good plot. Not arrogant, like a lot of national anthems, even if it gets sung that way a lot of the time. It's about survival in times of adversity, which is what the best songs are about, which is fitting this week. Got a lot of people at the scene crying. And singing.
Do I take it the cloth-eared twit kendall heard on the radio who couldn't tell the difference between it and the star-spangled banner was an American? |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Ma-K Date: 13 Sep 01 - 08:17 PM I heard it,saw it, and cryed again when I saw their tears....Thank You..Mary |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: DougR Date: 13 Sep 01 - 08:10 PM That was a very thoughtful thing for the Queen Mother to do. I heard part of it on the Fox News Channel too. DougR |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Ferret Date: 13 Sep 01 - 08:04 PM you can say that again. pity it takes this to do it. ferret |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Amos Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:50 PM Me too, kat. What you said. Y'know, I believe this may be the closest our two nations have come in quite a while. |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: katlaughing Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:45 PM Oh, gawd, I thought I was done crying until I read this thread. God Save teh Queen, indeed. What a beautiful and peaceFULL thing to have done. Thank you, all of you in the UK and elsewhere. |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Ferret Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:38 PM What can i say, some things just defy woads. The world Grieves with you. But if any good can come out of this, it's uniting most of the world aganst terrorism. with much sadness Ferret |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:37 PM I always liked America the Beautiful much better that the Star Spangled Banner. It is especially beautiful when sung by the St. Olaf Choir of Northfield, MN. (Sorry, I can't find any evidence that they ever recorded it, but I have heard them sing it.) That will really bring tears to your eyes. I thank Her Majesty for the gesture anyway. By the way, Ray Charles was wrong when he sang "God done shed his grace on thee." "Shed" is the subjunctive and it means, "May God shed his grace on thee."
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Linda Kelly Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:33 PM NExt Saturday is the Last Night of the Proms -the programme has been changed to reflect the mood of the nation. The conductor, who will be an American will conduct Samuel Barbers Adagio for strings and the anthems at the end of evening will be toned down. Tomorrow the Queen will attend a memorial at St Paul's and there will be a three minute silence observed by the nation -a fitting tribute for war dead. |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Melani Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:25 PM I heard it, too. It was a kind gesture. It's nice to know the whole world doesn't hate us. |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Murray MacLeod Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:09 PM Good post, Paul from Hull. Love to know who wrote that. Murray |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: bill\sables Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:06 PM It was the Star Spangled Banner. The Us Ambassitor was there with Prince Andrew. It was also very emotional with crowds behind the railings of the palace openly weeping. Max played America the Beautiful on Mudcat radio on Tuesday night, it had the same effect on me. Bill |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Morticia Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:05 PM I was listening to the radio ( BBC 2)this afternoon and all afternoon people were calling in, some in tears, with their condolences and sorrow and outrage.Never doubt that we feel for you.I watched the American Ambassador at the revised Changing of the Guard....I don't mind admitting to a quiet weep of my own at his carefully controlled, but all too apparent, anguish. |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Paul from Hull Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:03 PM While we are in this frame of mind, it seems apt to post this, which I just found....I dont know who wrote it. An Open Letter to Terrorists: Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America. You used helpless American bodies to take out other American bodies, but like a poor marksman, you STILL missed America. Why? Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn't about a building or two, not about financial centers, not about military centers. America isn't about a place. America isn't even about a bunch of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea that you can go someplace where you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part, like you envisioned living, and pursue Happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!) Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant your terrorist litany: "If you can not see my point, then feel my pain." This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country where we don't have to see your point. But you're free to have one. We don't have to listen to your speech. But you're free to say one. Don't know where you got the strange idea that everyone has to agree with you. We don't agree with each other in this country, almost as a matter of pride. We're a collection of guys that don't agree, called States. We united our individual states to protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another idea, we made up on the spot. You CAN make it up as you go, when it's your country. If you're free enough. You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in America, America lives in its people! American Spirit is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're crossed in a cowardly manner,then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit. Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time. I post it cos it doesnt sound very different from the sort of thing we Brits might say....perhaps we are less 'distinct' from each other than we often seem... Paul |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Sorcha Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:03 PM Star Spangled Banner, silly...... |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Jon Freeman Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:03 PM Sorry Kendal, a bad habit of mine when reffering to comments made above (comes from ICQ chats where I'm too lazy to type/ it is quicker to abbreviate when I think a meaning is clear - even when it's not!)... Star Spangled Banner. Jon |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:02 PM I heard on the radio that it was the American national anthem that was played, as far as I know this is the first time a foreign national anthem has been played at Buckinham Palace, also the Union Jack is flying at half mast. |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: kendall Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:58 PM what is ssb? |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Jon Freeman Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:56 PM OK thanks Sorcha, it was definately the SSB I heard (and Kendall, I know the "silly words" to the other tune(S&S Forever) ...) Jon |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Sorcha Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:51 PM Jon, the "silly words" to S&S Forever are "be kind to you web footed friend, for the duck might be somebody's mother" It's a Sousa march, and the national anthem is the melody of Ancreon, or however you spell it. |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: kendall Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:51 PM I tuned in too late to hear it, the commentator said it was S&S forever that they played. Jon, I'm a bit surprised, we know how God Save the Queen goes! LOL |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Bat Goddess Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:49 PM "Star Spangled Banner" -- the one that's difficult to sing. Wonderful gesture, though, at this time. Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Banjer Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:48 PM I just heard that story on the local Fox news channel. The Queen had the band (her Coldstream Guard, I believe) play 'The National Anthem' at Buckingham Palace. It was reported that was the FIRST time the anthem had been played there!!! It is heartening to see the global support shown for the victims of Tuesdays attacks! |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Jon Freeman Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:47 PM Sorcha, I'm not sure how Stars and Stripes Forever goes. What I heard I would have called The Star Spangled Banner - is that the same one or a different one? I'm not a monarchist either but I do think the use of this tune was appropriate - I think it gives some idea how much this tragedy has been felt by a lot of people in the UK. Jon |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Murray MacLeod Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:37 PM Look in and congratulate her personally while you are over there, kendall. You are still going, aren't you? Murray |
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Subject: RE: God save the Queen From: Sorcha Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:36 PM Was it S & S Forever, or the nat'l anthem? I had heard the anthem........the news is giving me goose bumps too. |
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Subject: God save the Queen From: kendall Date: 13 Sep 01 - 06:31 PM I have been doing fairly well with what happened on Tuesday, and, even though I am not a monarchist, I just saw on the news that the Queen ordered the band at Buckingham Palace to play STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER, and, I just lost it. God damn them all! The guilty ones only! |
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