Imperial Family Claimants Part 11

[Finelly]

Merci, merci!  <bowing>

[NAAOTMA]

Anna dear,

Do you still remember the song "Windmills of Your Mind"? It might fit in nicely with all these echoes of feelings that people are mentioning...and it would fit in with your dear little wooden shoes and darling bouquets of tulips along with the sable cape and Faberge sunglasses...please don't tell me you lent that costume to GD Janet!

My dear Baron Von Crankypants is best buds with Captain Von Trapp...we hope CVT has honorable intentions regarding GD Janet...if you recall the Valmontsky almost-wedding of last year, and all those crepe paper decorations, perhaps being married off in a lovely Baroque abbey would be a tad more approriate. I still have my bridesmaid dress...did you keep yours? I wonder how you get guacamole stains off the front?

I think Tsar Doug is on to something with Tsarkoe Selo University. Perhaps there will also be athletic teams? Cheerleaders? Foreign exchange programs? A large in-hospital drug rehab program? A scrapebooking class? An Imperial Pet Grooming Certification Course? The best part is: no grades, no homework and everyone graduates...as in being born on third base, and thinking one has hit a home run! Better yet, you can teach a subject you know absolutely nothing about. Is being Imperial great or what?

Of course the opportunities for the musically inclined at such an academic institution almost boggle the mind, if one has a mind to boggle...

Please let me know how you are doing in the land of the tulips...caio for now, GD Melissa and Ortino II and Zemira II

[Margarita Markovna]

Jai la speeka francais.

Can I be a princess now too?

[etonexile]

It's all getting much too fair and democratic.....

[Finelly]

One would hope upon hope that people would have to not only speak french, but pass the "identifying your chintz" course at the University before being recognized as a valied claimant.

Not to mention knowing what color mauve really is.....

[etonexile]

Teddy feels that folk should know their single malt whiskeys as well....but then he would....He has also suggested the wearing of official headgear at all times....tiarras..."Merry Widow" hats...front-to-back baseball caps...?

[Finelly]

I suggest front to back baseball caps with a tiara affixed, with veils hanging from the back...

[anna]

Melissa dearie,

Speaking of memories:
Do I remember "Windmill of your mind"?? Daahling, my greatest hit, 25 weeks number 1 on the Tsarskoe popcharts. Yes, the song brings up memories of my dear homeland... The little girl from Tulipland who became a famous Spy/GD-singer,ballet dancer, poet etc etc in the land of balalaika's, blini's and vodka.
Hé somebody in search of a subject for a new book?

Ooh my bridesmaid dress-- you mean the strapless one?
Still have it- without quacamole stains because my dress had little or no front. It would spoil the whole effect----- of my jewelry-.

Nice to hear Baron Von Crankypants is still paying for your housing and other expences, how else can we keep up our grand way of living? Baron Von Trapp seems to be a bird of a feather. I'm sure GD Janet knows how to handle his sixpack offspring after her dreadful experience with the nuns.

Yes, Tsarskoe university registrations are going well. Some family members admit they need a course, as they stray off... story lines, talk acabradaba, indentity crises.
They will start with "Who am I". After they found themselves they start lessons in "Adequate enough?" and exams in "Jolly finally a Royal".

You see dearie busy as usual, who said royals are dull.

Anna graduated in blings

[Finelly]

My dear relatives,

I am seriously considering leaving this Board and finding another place of refuge and I would like your input.

While this particular thread seems stable and sane, there are others which make me very uncomfortable.  I would direct you to the "Antisemitism" thread and the "Princes in Pain" section of Windsors.....

[lexi4]

Finelly,
You can't leave. What small amount of sanity there is, would be greatly diminshed by your departure.  
I've seen antisemitism, but am too afriad of princess in pain.

[Finelly]

Lexi - please do look at Princes in Pain.  The dialogue of the past few days as well as the latest post by FA.

Based on that FA post, it seems quite clear to me that things are not what I thought and that I may be extremely uncomfortable in a place where moderators can attack posters, but not vice versa.

[Janet_W.]

My Dear Fellow Claimants--

I have so much to tell you but for the moment must get back to my latest assignment taking care of seven (SEVEN?!   ) children high on a hill with a lonely goatherd. (Well, he was lonely . . . but not anymore, what with the eight of us racing about in our drapery-wear, singing crazy little ditties such as "Feelings," "Windmills of Your Mind," and so forth. In fact, at this point I think he bloody well wants us off the hill.)

As for speaking the proper language, I can swear quite well in French. (Including that noblest word in the language. Mas oui!) However, my Icelandic is a tad rusty.

I'd look at Princess in Pain, but I've just been through tons of therapy and not sure I want to go back there right now. Is there, perchance, a thread called GDs/GPs In Pain? That would be me, dahlings!

BTW, could I have another "Here Comes Trouble" tee shirt sent up the hill? Make that two more . . . one for Gretl and one for the goatherd. Also throw in a pink parasol if possible.

Oops! Just heard my cue to lady-o-da-lady-o-da-loo,

The GD/GP Janet

[Finelly]

<sigh>  Well, the posters THERE aren't willing to give me insight, and nobody here is, either!

What's a claimant to do?  

I'll post a "farewell" tonight if I decide not to come back.

[Janet_W.]

Now see here, Finelly, do be reasonable.

We could not bear this thread without you. So just put away all plans of leaving, else I'll haunt you with multiple choruses of "So Long, Farewell."

Your turn will come, and you will receive insight. Just be patient. Close your eyes and think of England, for heaven's sake.

Back to The Lonely Goatherd, and yours for infinite patience, I remain

The GD/GP Janet

[Douglas]

Dearest Courtiers:

I hate to admit it but I just read a few pages of Princes in Pain and I must say that my first reaction was to ring the butler for a  Gin & Tonic  with some Excedrin on the side.  

That thread has become a rather uncivil, "he said, she said" , torrent of  emotions at full speed.  

Here at Tsarskoe Selo we lead the life of the imperials with a bit of risque fun thrown in for good measure.

Today I am teaching our dear monkey Rex to type on the computer.  I expect him to turn out a work of great value to Western culture.  Next Rex is to do some oil painting which will be displayed for sale at our next bizarre in Bizque.