Royal Wedding

[WA1GFZ]

XYL suggests I get up ar 4:00AM and catch the royal wedding before heading out to Deerfield. Maybe Mr. Mike could pipe it into the PA so we could all enjoy the royal event. How about a jumbo tron so we can watch it.

[WD8BIL]

What are u smoking, Frank?

[W2PFY]

Wouldn't it be great if the wedding became a Royal Disaster? Perhaps the bride would ware a brake away dress that could be triggered to pull off just before she steps upon the alter? The Groom could have on an inflatable suit that would fill up with helium and he would start to float away as her dress came off. Then the entire audience would stand up and then set down on wuppy cushions.

You get the idea,

[K2PG]

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sick of hearing about the royal wedding! With all the problems we have in this country regarding the recent violent weather, our lousy economy, three wars in the Middle East, and political polarization like what Germany experienced in the 1920s, don't our media have more important things to report? Besides, didn't we throw those bums out some 235 years ago?

All of this proves the K2PG Theorem of the American Mass Media: You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar...but if you REALLY want to catch flies, you know what you have to put out...

[WA1GFZ]

XYL just bustin my stones Bud
Before we got married I told her I go to deerfield twice a year so she has some fun with me.

[k4kyv]

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sick of hearing about the royal wedding!

Turn off the boob tube.

I get most of my news via the local newspaper and the Nashville NPR station, and I haven't heard all that much about it. No-one is holding a gun to my head forcing me to read the tabloids, LCD-oriented magazines or click on the web links.

What I dread is the imminent political campaign season.

[K5UJ]

Weddings are for suckers.

[W2PFY]

Turn off the boob tube

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I don't think Phil can get away from it since he is actively working in the broadcast field. I believe he taking care of three stations as their chief engineer. Poor Phil   He has to listen to all the crap that comes down the sewer pipe

[K2PG]

Turn off the boob tube.

I get most of my news via the local newspaper and the Nashville NPR station, and I haven't heard all that much about it.

I don't have television, as the DTV reception is very unstable in my area and I refuse to pay for TV via cable or satellite, especially considering the outright dreck that prevails on the small screen these days. But every radio station in my area has been hyping that bloody wedding. Since I am chief engineer of a station cluster, I hear that crap non-stop during my workday. Corporate has even been pushing that rubbish onto our station Web sites. The local newspapers have run more than their share of articles about the wedding, but I just skip those.

It seems that the "stylebook" of the National Enquirer (if one exists) is the model for the American media these days, along with the sleazy Barbara Walters brand of "journalism".

[K2PG]

Wouldn't it be great if the wedding became a Royal Disaster? Perhaps the bride would ware a brake away dress that could be triggered to pull off just before she steps upon the alter? The Groom could have on an inflatable suit that would fill up with helium and he would start to float away as her dress came off. Then the entire audience would stand up and then set down on wuppy cushions.

You get the idea,

Or...if someone would just release a huge container full of cockroaches at the venue of the wedding. I don't mean those little "Croton bugs" (Blatella germanica) that city dwellers often find in their kitchens. I mean those huge "palmetto bugs" (Periplaneta americana), the unofficial state insect of Florida that is almost the size of a Volkswagen. And those things can fly, too!

[K3ZS]

I was listening to our local blabber AM station, they were talking about how tired they were that all of the broadcast media were talking about this wedding.   They then talked about it for the next half hour!

[k4kyv]

I heard a news report this morning about a poll taken a few days ago in the UK.  Over 70% of the British public said they couldn't care less, although I'm sure the tabloid crowd is soaking it up like a sponge.  And I predict, within 6 months if not sooner, you will see sleazy tabloid headlines in this country in the supermarket check-out, hyping the royal marital problems and imminent royal divorce. At least one or two will be running "exclusive" stories exposing the confidential royal erectile dysfunction.

[Opcom]

I'm ignoring the whole thing. It's just not interesting.

[W1ATR]

eh, it gives the american idle type viewers some drivel to watch during the day.

Wasn't there a PEZ dispenser of the bride and groom that just sold for like $15,000 or something?

[W1RC]

Wouldn't it be great if the wedding became a Royal Disaster? Perhaps the bride would ware a brake away dress that could be triggered to pull off just before she steps upon the alter? The Groom could have on an inflatable suit that would fill up with helium and he would start to float away as her dress came off. Then the entire audience would stand up and then set down on wuppy cushions.

Soulds like a wonderful Monty Python sketch!  I have NO interest in the royal wedding and besides it is the same time as NEAR-Fest so I couldn't care less.

73,

MrMike

[w1vtp]

Wouldn't it be great if the wedding became a Royal Disaster? Perhaps the bride would ware a brake away dress that could be triggered to pull off just before she steps upon the alter? The Groom could have on an inflatable suit that would fill up with helium and he would start to float away as her dress came off. Then the entire audience would stand up and then set down on wuppy cushions.

You get the idea,

Welll,  maybe not quite that way but maybe a wardrobe "malfunction?"  Why is it such a big deal with the ladies?  Yup, my XYL got up before the wedding got started just so she wouldn't miss all those inane comments by the talking heads.  Well, that's the reason I have my new shack -- so I don't have to look at such stiff;. At 74, I don't have any time to waste especially on that drivel.

Al

[W3RSW]

I liked it.   A little pomp and ceremony does society good.
-Well, we can't have gladiatorial combat anymore. 

I wonder how many HT's it took to communicate and regulate the timing?  From what I hear everything, and I mean everything was practiced and timed to the millisecond.   Suppose that means honeymoon events too?

Seem's I can't sleep much past 4:00am anyway these days, so it was a great way to kill the morning..

-so, tell me you haven't heard about Furgie? Diana? Chucky?.... 

[Fred k2dx]

I confess to watching it, but not for the more common reasons. I couldn't care less about the event, and with the state of the ecomomy in GB, spending 65m seems ludicrous. Even if it is paid for by the royal family, the money could better be used for humanitarian purposes.
 
I watched it just in case there was a disruption.

[steve_qix]

Sherrie watched some of it before she went to work, and I watched some of the church service with her.  Otherwise, hadn't thought much about it one way or the other.

Apparently a LOT of people DID watch - a bit under 30 million in England alone and somewhat less than that here in the US - current estimates are 20 to 25 million.  Online streaming of the event set an Internet-wide record for the total number of people watching any streamed event or program.

More official ratings are supposed to be out this week.  My guess is the numbers will come in at around 80 to 100 million world wide when everything is tallied.