Our long national nightmare is over.

[DukieInKansas]

I'm not sure about the cake. I actually sang in a community choir with someone who sang at the Prince Charles/Princess Diana wedding. An article in the local paper says that she has a few souvenirs from that event - one of which is a piece of the cake. Apparently the traditional cake is frosted fruitcake. It doesn't sound good to me. However, her 30+ year old piece may taste the same today as it did on the wedding day.

[Miles]

I'm not Royal Wedding-obsessed, but it is interesting to me, and it is a big deal. 950 years of history are not to be dismissed lightly.

Nor to be promoted so frivolously.

[lawgrad91]

I'm not sure about the cake. I actually sang in a community choir with someone who sang at the Prince Charles/Princess Diana wedding. An article in the local paper says that she has a few souvenirs from that event - one of which is a piece of the cake. Apparently the traditional cake is frosted fruitcake. It doesn't sound good to me. However, her 30+ year old piece may taste the same today as it did on the wedding day.

And it would probably make a fine doorstop, the traditional use of fruitcake.

[wilson]

I'm not Royal Wedding-obsessed, but it is interesting to me, and it is a big deal. 950 years of history are not to be dismissed lightly.

Nor to be promoted so frivolously.

Good point, but there's actually a pretty long tradition of royal souvenirs. All sorts of commemorative coins, plates, cups, service vessels, etc. survive from as far back as the mid-17th century. Some of the new items are more frivolous, of course, but that's as much a comment on the general consumerism of our time as on the trivialization of royalty.

[Lavabe]

In what at least one website describes as perhaps "the final deathblow to poker-as-spectator-sport," ESPN has dropped all of its poker programming in the wake of the recent gambling-related indictments against the operators of the three largest online poker sites.
Now, if we could just get rid of the endless crap about the NFL Draft, we'd be in business. Why anyone ever thought that or poker was worthy of being televised ad nauseam is totally beyond me.

Full Tilt Poker's gambling license is suspended:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/ne ... id=6717186

[YmoBeThere]

The WSOP is going strong as I type in Vegas.

[DevilWearsPrada2.0]

VEGAS VEGAS VEGAS