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11:53 June 17th, 2009

Royal pain in the Ascot?

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Listen up magazine staff, this is a disaster! We’re right on deadline for our “Day at the Races” photo spread, but the captions are missing.

All we know for sure is that some of these photos were taken at the Royal Ascot race in the UK yesterday, and the others were taken at various Preakness Stakes, in Baltimore. But which ones are which?

Let’s see. Here’s Prince Charles in a top hat and morning coat holding an umbrella, and here’s a woman chugging beer from a tube…  Hmmmm. Just too close to call.

And over here we’ve got a woman dodging a flying beer can at an infield party, and we also have some women in fancy chapeaus having a picnic out of the back of their limousine.  Cripes, can anybody help me out here?

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8 comments so far

Well, I’d say… the bra on that woman… the size of the limousine…

Nope. I’m stumped.

- Posted by Bandage

I googled ‘Shawn Hendricks’ and it linked me here. Imagine my astonishment.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Er, can I have Jonathan Ernst’s job when he retires or has an um… unfortunate accident?

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Freddie Mercury would have loved this spread, considering ‘Royal’ in Britain these days implies a Queen. A Day at the Races, indeed!

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Let’s see. Freakness has forbidden alcohol on the infield this year, hasn’t it? But Americans are danged ingenious when it comes to Freedom of Alcohol Consumption (alcohol even has its own constitutional amendment). Yellow tags on the limos. Is that really Prince C.? Big, honkin’ mounted police shoulder patches and a guy wearing a blue football jersey. Those are some serious clues, Bob.
BTW, judging from the femme’s expression, maybe she didn’t dodge the can after all.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Are we sure they didn’t photoshop in the open-mouthed, soda swilling babe from a different kind of ‘picture?’

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

[...] Guy, I was interested in your photos of some members of the British royal family at the Royal Ascot. Please try to update us more often on what those folks are up [...]

- Posted by Honey swat key mally ponce? | Not So Headline News

[...] who wrote, “Bob, I love it when you make fun of British stuff, like Funny Hat Day and the Royal Ascot. Why don’t you do more of [...]

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