http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53669 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53669#post-154972 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:48:34 +0000 custard cream 154972@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wonderful, great stuff! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53669#post-154883 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:15:36 +0000 Golgo13 154883@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't worry Squudge....I've cut and pasted from newspaper articles and wikipedia...</p> <p>I think it's an acceptable technique </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53669#post-154881 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:12:52 +0000 Squudge 154881@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ok - here is another go without 'cut and paste', but the facts sort of need to go in as a framework.</p> <p>-------------------------------------version 2--------------------------</p> <p>Despite mounting anger from Argentina, after a part of Antartica was named after the Queen this week, it has been reported that the Falklands are to be renamed the "Nyah nyah ne-nyah nyah Islands".</p> <p>The UK ambassador to Argentina was summoned yesterday to explain to officials in Buenos Aires why part of Antarctica has been renamed 'Queen Elizabeth Land'. He was handed a formal protest note "strongly rejecting" the UK's claim to the land and thus the right to rename it.</p> <p>The UK ambassador denies blowing a raspberry and making the surprise announcement re the Falkands/Malvinas renaming in a provocatively plummy British accent.</p> <p>East Antarctica already has 'Princess Elizabeth Land', so named before the Queen took the throne, and a mountain range in the Antarctic peninsula named the Princess Royal Range in 2006 in tribute to the Queen's daughter. The Foreign Office has denied that it had anything to do with her 'splendid rack'.</p> <p>A palace official has since revealed that the Queen has asked William Hague to consider redesignating South Georgia as 'Prince Harry Redoubt' if he doesn't mend his ways quite soon.</p> <p>Media requests to view the Palace globe, which is thought to comprise 'mainly pink bits', have been politely declined by the Queen's equerry today. When asked he denied that HRH Prince Phillip had requested that Argentina be renamed 'Loserville', stating "That would be insensitive". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53669#post-154877 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:41:51 +0000 Squudge 154877@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes - it was sort of the point.</p> <p>You think a re-write is in order with the facts in less-BBC English? Might make it more coherent I suppose. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53669#post-154867 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:39:52 +0000 Perks 154867@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Although I like the idea, the second, third, and all but the last line of the fifth paragraphs have been cut and pasted from the BBC report. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=53669#post-154862 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:49:07 +0000 Squudge 154862@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Despite mounting anger from Argentina, after a part of Antartica was named after the Queen this week, it has been announced that the Falklands are to be renamed the "Nyah nyah ne-nyah nyah Islands".</p> <p>The UK ambassador to Argentina was summoned yesterday, to explain to officials in Buenos Aires why part of Antarctica has been renamed in honour of the Queen. He was handed a formal protest note "strongly rejecting" the UK's claim to a piece of land known as the British Antarctic Territory.</p> <p>The southern section was named Queen Elizabeth Land by Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday. The note claimed the area was part of the Argentine Antarctic sector. It stated that the Argentine government "strongly rejected" Britain's right to rename the area.</p> <p>The UK ambassador denies blowing a raspberry and announcing the suprise news re the Falkands/Malvinas renaming, in a provocatively plummy British accent.</p> <p>The Foreign Office said on Tuesday there was a precedent for naming parts of the Antartcic continent after members of the British royal family. East Antarctica is home to Princess Elizabeth Land, named after the Queen before she took the throne, and in 2006 an unnamed mountain range in the Antarctic peninsula was named the Princess Royal Range in tribute to the Queen's daughter. The Foreign Office has denied that it had anything to do with her 'splendid rack'.</p> <p>Media requests to view the Palace globe, which is thought to comprise 'mainly pink bits', was politely declined by the Queen's equerry today. When asked he denied that HRH Prince Phillip had requested that Argentina be renamed 'Loserville', stating "That would be insensitive". </p>