# Ask the Royal We **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 2, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467 "2002-04-02T21:30:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/41 "2002-04-03T11:35:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flamsterette\_X \* > \*\* > > That’s what I’d like to know! \*\* And now it knows. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/42 "2002-04-03T11:38:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*Underpants. \*\* Garments worn underneath the outer garments. Or in its case, garments that it sniffs and rubs on its face. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/43 "2002-04-03T11:45:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*I was going to ask why we drive on the parkway, but I’d settle for knowing where one can purchase a beef, bean and cheese burrito. \*\* It may purchase its gastric heresies directly from street vendors in Mexico. It will be delighted to know that its intestinal woe shall be mitigated by the ingestion of less offensive ingredients, such as long black tendrils, perspiration, and nasal mucous. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/44 "2002-04-03T11:56:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kat \* > \*\*What have I got in my pocket? > > Also, if I rip Wednesday and Thursday off the calendar tonight, will it be Friday when I wake up tomorrow morning? \*\* Its pocket doubtless contains sundry unavailing materials that fall through the many holes therein, which themselves bear testament to its rather odious obsession with fondling itself at social gatherings. Ripping sheets from its calendar signifies that it has abandoned all hope of finding meaning in its pathetic life. We recommend that, as an act of mercy, it rip out all the sheets and stuff them in its mouth until it cannot breathe. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/45 "2002-04-03T12:00:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Feck! > > Arse! > > Drink! > > Gobshite! \*\* Scottish poetry. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/46 "2002-04-03T12:07:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leechbabe \* > \*\*Bet I’m prettier than you! > > _::flicks hair over should and blows kiss to Libertarian before leaving::_ \*\* Our countenance is far too magnificent for its vainglorious similitudes. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/47 "2002-04-03T12:11:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\* > > Would you like to shoot him now or wait 'til you get home? \*\* Is it addressing us or the blood sucking nymph? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/48 "2002-04-03T12:13:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*You’ve been watching _Silence of the Lambs_ again, haven’t you? > > Esprix \*\* And now it puts the lotion in the basket. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/49 "2002-04-03T12:21:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kabbes \* > \*\*Ah, good to see you back **Lib**. > > I have a question: > > Describe the general insurance pricing cycle, explain what features of the insurance industry cause such cycles to occur regularly and suggest ways in which a general insurance company may mitigate the effects that pricing cycles have on its financial performance. > > 17 marks (ie you’d better raise at least 50 distinct points). You have 30 minutes. > > What? Why yes I **do** have my GI exam next week. Why do you ask? > > pan \*\* We recommend that it study Paul Ingrey’s Insurance Clock. It may then assert that on the tenth day of September, in the two-thousand-and-first year of Our Lord, the time was seven of the clock. By examining the impact of the ensuing day’s events on the insurance industry, it may easily raise its requisite distinct points, covering the bulk of its concerns. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/50 "2002-04-03T12:32:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > \*\*Why is **kabbes** having a gastrointestinal examination, and what does this have to do with insurance pricing cycles? (Or am I missing something?) \*\* It is likely still missing another word for thesaurus. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/51 "2002-04-03T14:44:13Z")
Although royalty has typically been seen, in human history, as a divine right passed on through family lineage, I gather your own royal nature is a product of your (self perceived) a priori superiority over we lesser beings. (Sort of William Ernest Henley by way of Nietze/Marvel Comics.) Keeping in mind that there are not only widely disparate philosophies regarding the rights & priveleges of royals, but of the responsibilities of such as well (such noblesse oblige lately being exemplified by the -now defunct- Queen Mum of England), what I want to know is this: Boxers or briefs? ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/52 "2002-04-03T15:05:53Z")
_Maroon_ or _black_ boxers or briefs? Does knowing what time it is shed light on the mutually reinforcing nature of adverse selection and moral hazard in determining insurance dynamics? Did you mean _snooty_ rather than _snotty_ or were you anticipating **kabbes** by mentioning 'flu vaccinations - evident akrasia with respect to - and their self-undermining cycle which given your \ political philosophy you celebrate rather than fret over? How can it be that you know not _Father Ted_? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/53 "2002-04-03T16:50:23Z")
So just _who_ was this JDT person anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/54 "2002-04-03T17:03:41Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Michael Ellis** _ > > Chuck Jones cartoons actually, but the effect is much the same…except it isn’t remotely similar. Um, actually, I was talking to the “Royal We” guy, not you. \ Yes. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/55 "2002-04-03T17:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hawthorne \* > \*\*_Maroon_ or _black_ boxers or briefs? … \ …How can it be that you know not _Father Ted_? \*\* Or were they really really reallly really dark blue? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/56 "2002-04-03T19:16:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xenophon41 \* > \*\*Although royalty has typically been seen, in human history, as a divine right passed on through family lineage, I gather your own royal nature is a product of your (self perceived) a priori superiority over we lesser beings. (Sort of William Ernest Henley by way of Nietze/Marvel Comics.) Keeping in mind that there are not only widely disparate philosophies regarding the rights & priveleges of royals, but of the responsibilities of such as well (such noblesse oblige lately being exemplified by the -now defunct- Queen Mum of England), what I want to know is this: > > Boxers or briefs? \*\* They are impeccably tailored garments, specially fitted to accomodate our massive genitalia, and are made from the finest Indian silk by fifth generation master artisans. ---
**Author:** ![Robb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Robb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robb)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/57 "2002-04-03T19:18:12Z")
> [@](#): > > our massive genitalia We is a big dick? OG!! OG!! OG!! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/58 "2002-04-03T19:25:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hawthorne \* > \*\*_Maroon_ or _black_ boxers or briefs? Does knowing what time it is shed light on the mutually reinforcing nature of adverse selection and moral hazard in determining insurance dynamics? Did you mean _snooty_ rather than _snotty_ or were you anticipating **kabbes** by mentioning 'flu vaccinations - evident akrasia with respect to - and their self-undermining cycle which given your \ political philosophy you celebrate rather than fret over? How can it be that you know not _Father Ted_? \*\* They are the purest white. It sometimes does. No, we did not. How can it be that it does not know where James VI was born? ---
**Author:** ![seawitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@seawitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seawitch)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/59 "2002-04-03T19:33:16Z")
I am old, **Libertarian** (or so my mirror says) And my hair has begun turning white. And yet I incessantly stand on my head. Do you think at my age it is right? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467/60 "2002-04-03T19:37:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*So just _who_ was this JDT person anyway? \*\* Did it mean JDK? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-royal-we/101467.md?page=4)