Once at Fred Leighton they let me put on one of the tiaras. I think it cost about half a mil. Oh my. That was fun.

I am very amused to see that the discussion of tiaras has just bumped God to the sidelines. Tiaras must be one of the Bitches trump cards or something.

I feel like, when I decided not to wear a tiara at my wedding, I pretty much ruled out the need to ever wear one, because that would have been the event to wear one. Instead I had big faux pearls in my hair. That worked.

The thought of my wearing something like that other than as a gag=ROTFL. I'm not sure if I'm convinced I'm ugly still or if it's a "Working-Class Hero" thing. They'll hate you if you're clever/And despise a fool.

I first noticed it when the newspaper had a picture of Camilla standing right behind the queen ... who's much shorter and her hair was all flat in places from her (smaller) tiara. And, yes, Camilla does need her very own spiffy tiara.

(waves back at Hec)

Presumably the Queen keeps custody of the Royal heirlooms while she's queen. Seems fair.

There's the complicated issue of which jewelry is the Queen's personally and which belongs to the Crown. Most of the stuff you see her wearing (barring actual crowns) belongs to her, and to whomever she leaves it to.

Not that he's not probably a champion wheedler, but Camilla doesn't strike me as the type to really give a damn one way or the other.

That too.

Nurse goes to the bank to cash her paycheck. She pulls her pen out to endorse the check and realizes that it's a rectal thermometer. She looks at the teller and says, "Some asshole has my pen."

Emily, you got a package.

Random and off-topic: Does (modern) Greek not use capital letters? flea? raq? others who are better-traveled than I?

Modern greek uses capital letters. Edit: in the normal places you would find caps in English - they don't do any weird German Noun Capitalization.