# Princess Diana's butler ~ What a meatpickle! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296 "2002-11-11T17:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/1 "2002-11-11T17:32:24Z")
Apparently he’s in NYC holed up at the Millennium Hotel in Times Square with his family, in town to pitch a gameshow called **"What the Butler Saw."** (I don’t have a site it was just on the TV news here) I hope they laugh his Jeeves ass outta dodge. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/2 "2002-11-11T19:34:59Z")
That woman was like a Shell Pest Strip for cads. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/3 "2002-11-11T20:09:13Z")
Except their flies apparently never got stuck. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/4 "2002-11-11T20:16:42Z")
Except their flies apparently never got stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/5 "2002-11-11T21:42:34Z")
I really have nothing to contribute, sxcept to say that I really like that term. **Meatpickle.** That’s my word for the day. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/6 "2002-11-11T21:47:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blessedwolf \* > **I really have nothing to contribute, sxcept to say that I really like that term.** heh heh you almost said _sexcept._ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/7 "2002-11-11T22:05:14Z")
Pretty classless sod, providing the tabloids with steamy details like that. Somebody needs to bastardslap that guy. We now know exactly what his word is worth. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/8 "2002-11-11T23:54:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\* > > heh heh > > you almost said _sexcept._ > > 😛 \*\* That’s what happens when I type with my meatpickle. ---
**Author:** ![Eidolon909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@Eidolon909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eidolon909)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/9 "2002-11-12T04:07:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Pretty classless sod, providing the tabloids with steamy details like that. Somebody needs to bastardslap that guy. We now know exactly what his word is worth. \*\* Its time the truth came out about that phony bitch, Diana. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/10 "2002-11-12T04:11:14Z")
I think the whole thing is righteously funny and getting far more column inches than it deserves. Mind you, it’s propably just a devilishly clever plot by the royals to make themselves look half-way interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/11 "2002-11-12T05:52:47Z")
\*\*Meatpickle…_hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!!!_…meatpickle. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/12 "2002-11-12T05:53:52Z")
Aw, meatpickles! I screwed up the coding. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_from\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Man\_from\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_from_Mars)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/13 "2002-11-12T07:48:17Z")
\ Hmmmmm - meatpickle. \ ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/14 "2002-11-12T11:09:26Z")
wait wait wait. What gruesome details did he tell the tabloids about? That there was a rape allegation against a senior member of staff? True. That there was alot of hatred between the Spencers and the Winsors? true. I know the story and am yet to see anything that he has done wrong. He has come out very much on the side of Diana. > [@](#): > > Apparently he’s in NYC holed up at the Millennium Hotel in Times Square with his family, in town to pitch a gameshow called “What the Butler Saw.” got any proof for that? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/15 "2002-11-12T11:27:17Z")
> [@](#): > > **I know the story and am yet to see anything that he has done wrong.** The tabloids have just turned on him because they didn’t get his story. “If we can’t have you, we’ll try to destroy you,” is the impression I get. Mind you, romping with Barrymore certainly appears to be a lapse in taste and judgement… I seriously think this scandal could destroy the house of Windsor. According to an anonymouse Palace aide talking to the Observer, there’s a whole load more shit still to come out, and “it’s a fucking mess”. Good quote from [thefridaything.co.uk](http://www.thefridaything.co.uk): > [@](#): > > The royal household is Mount Olympus, and we scale it at our > peril. Peer over the walls and the walls crumble. Pull back > the wizard’s curtain and the wizard appears as a little man > with his trousers round his ankles tugging at a wrinkly > cock. We don’t know quite what that image refers to, but > it’s not something we want to see. > > There is nothing more weird and wonderful than a royal > family, and republicans - for all the validity of their > arguments - are missing the point: it is hilarious and > amazing to have a bunch of special creatures sitting around > in palaces, sleeping with valets and acting mad. The > privilege is ours. Republics are dull. They might make > sense, but they are more human and more egalitarian and more > boring. > > So we should close our eyes and close the newspapers for the > next couple of weeks. The mystique of the Windsors may be > tattered and torn by the revelations of Paul Burrell, but > with time it can heal. And then, in a few years, we can > feast on the confused rumours of Prince Harry’s twisted > sexual antics and all will be well with the world. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/16 "2002-11-12T11:36:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*got any proof for that? \*\* It’s in [The Sun](http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002521203,00.html), so it must be true. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/17 "2002-11-12T11:46:24Z")
of course, the Sun didn’t get his story, did they? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Doris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Sir\_Doris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Doris)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/18 "2002-11-12T12:27:46Z")
What **TwistofFate** and **jjimm** said. He’s actually given away very little in terms of juicy gossip. He’s remained protective of both Princess Diana and the Queen. He’s confirmed a few things about the Spencers, which were fairly obvious i.e. they are not nice people who didn’t really want to help her in life, but have been happy to cash in on her death. It’s not unreasonably for him to want to answer the charges against him, which were instigated by the Spencers and seized on eagerly by some overabitious copper. All the tabloids wanted his story. Not selling it to anyone wouldn’t have help - they would have printed what they wanted anyway. He didn’t sell to the highest bidder, but to a paper he trusted, for a sum that would cover his legal fees and make he didn’t have to sell the family home in order to cover them. What is wrong with that? The Sun prints bollocks, knowing he won’t sue. He couldn’t afford to, and even if he could, they’d get plenty of salacious gossip in court, which of course they’d print. The Sun were never ones for respecting Diana’s privacy, for it to criticise Paul Burrell for basically making some fact public, is simply behaving in the hypocritical way we over this side of the pond have come to expect. This story is about two aristocratic families fighting each other, and sod anyone else who gets in the way. Despite it all the man remains a royalist. That’s either a mark of extreme loyalty or stupidity, depending on your viewpoint. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/19 "2002-11-12T12:50:04Z")
BTW, I’m **really** enjoying the scandal (though not for the people who have suffered), and am looking forward to seeing further shocking revelations, hopefully bringing down the whole institution. I think what is happening is that the scandal’s beginning to reveal just how out of touch and contemptuous of ordinary people the British royals actually are. The UK ends up in a serious dilemma if they do prove to be rotten to the core (as I suspect they are), since the rule of heredity means they can’t be replaced. (I am an anti-Monarchist, but not necessarily a Republican [though I think the House of Lords needs to become a Senate], due not to principle, but because the royal family is still so significant to a great number of British people. For this reason I favour a ‘cycling monarchy’ a la Norway, rather than our current overprivileged toffee-nosed gits.) ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296/20 "2002-11-12T13:14:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Pull back the wizard’s curtain and the wizard appears as a little man with his trousers round his ankles tugging at a wrinkly cock. Great line. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/princess-dianas-butler-what-a-meatpickle/136296.md?page=2)