11 minutes ago, Larstrup said:

 One of these days Adam I’m going to take a trip down memory lane and go through each page of this thread  from the beginning, as I know I’ve probably posted duplicate videos here, ( of both yours and mine)  but when I came across these two this afternoon I absolutely knew that I hadn’t,  and could not remember you doing so either. They are indeed glorious and sublime sounds bestowed for us by the talent of the organist and further glorified by the construction of the organ itself.

They are beautiful.

Thank you, sincerely.

I had not known either of them before.

Also, I confess I had tended to underrate Richter a little bit before hearing that performance.

Kind of corny over-production, but nonetheless great sampling of why I think Elizabeth Regina is about the coolest human on the planet.

 

13 minutes ago, Larstrup said:

She really hates all the royal protocol, and would much rather sit there in her house sweater, horsing around with her funny grandkid.

George III, surprisingly to us Amurrcans, was the same way. He liked simple ways, tending by personal hand the farms and orchards and etc on the royal estates. And simple menus at non-State meals. Etc:

he actually sort of disliked being Monarch.

Which kind of shows why he and Adams got on so well.

Adams, educated in one of the first generations to go to Harvard, and deeply versed in the civics of the early Greek city-states and so on; just wanted to run his farm in Braintree, MA.

but then history intervened.

9 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:

She really hates all the royal protocol, and would much rather sit there in her house sweater, horsing around with her funny grandkid.

 And honestly why wouldn’t she? She’s had her rein of royal queen and protocol and scandal  For decades now, and if Diana’s death didn’t prove to her how empty that soon becomes, her death taught her nothing.  The monarchy survives only at great expense to the family of which it consumes. 

 

What Cassini learned about Saturn during its death dive

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/24/us/cassini-saturn-atmosphere-rings/index.html

 

11 hours ago, Larstrup said:

 And honestly why wouldn’t she? She’s had her rein of royal queen and protocol and scandal  For decades now, and if Diana’s death didn’t prove to her how empty that soon becomes, her death taught her nothing.  The monarchy survives only at great expense to the family of which it consumes. 

And she herself has done much to way cut down the 'Royal List'.

And Charles, funny nut job but well intentioned and, I think, much in tune with our times, has made his own Highgrove estate far more than 'self-sustaining'.

When (if) he ascends, I think he will make a very good and apt monarch for the times he finds himself in.

On 10/25/2017 at 8:21 PM, Larstrup said:

When the producers first proposed that Bond-themed Royal opening of the London Olympics to the Palace, their idea was to have some actress portray the Queen.

She said, 'Why can't I play myself?'

And so she did!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1AS-dCdYZbo

One more time... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 10/24/2017 at 5:50 AM, AdamSmith said:

 

Note even the subtextual anal-penetrative erotic character [/b] of 'The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.

Das Rheingold!

Pistol squats and push-ups: how Ruth Bader Ginsburg stays fighting fit

The supreme court justice’s personal trainer details her regimen in a new book: ‘If you think she’s tough on the bench, you should see her at the gym’

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/oct/29/ruth-bader-ginsburg-workout-bryant-johnson-book

Ain't no way that old dear is doing pistol squats!

Fake news.

32 minutes ago, MsGuy said:

Fake news.

Putting aside your exquisite choice of language , I wouldn't bet against the Notorious RBG on very much of anything.

That is to say of your post:

"I dissent."