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Police and spooks in charge of security for tomorrow's royal wedding have planned for every possible eventuality - including that of Kate leaving Wills at the altar. The top-secret contingency plan for a "runaway bride" scenario has been dubbed "Operation Pumpkin", and if put into effect would see hundreds of operatives switch …

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    1. YARR
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      Not funny

      Well I'm sure that our forefathers who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could live, would be proud that such a morally upstanding individual as yourself would walk in their footsteps... NOT.

      If anyone's mother could have chosen a better father, it would be those whose offspring are those lowliest of individuals who mock and demoralise their own kind.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Surely you mean...

        If anyone's mother could have chosen a better father, it would be those whose offspring are those lowliest of individuals who have no sense of humour.

  1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    Cor ..... you wouldn't believe some of the stuff that is dealt with

    "You have got to be kidding .... "Defense of the Realm" this ain't." ... Pet Peeve Posted Thursday 28th April 2011 11:38 GMT.

    Quite so, Pet Peeve, it is Right Royal Protection in Action and Virtual Reality for Defense of Dream Realms and their Promotions in Future Programs as Present Realities ....... for AI Heavenly Views in Beta Paths to Travel.

    A Quantum Leap is no Small Step for a Wild English Rose with Bewildering Magic in Insatiable Passions and Abuse of Process is the Tower Route for the Mal Phormed and Uninformed in other Outcomes with Programming.

    When Life is a Game whose Code XSSXXXX Scripts does one follow to realise/energise to present future intelligence and completely new views on everything for collective learning with personal experience experiments an attractive and addictive Power Control Driver for Leading Applications with Hot Assets and Critical Needs/Vital Feeds.

    It's a little more than just a wedding, methinks, whenever so much is presently at stake.

    Quantum Control BetaTest XSSXXXX1104281340.

    1. Someone Else Silver badge
      WTF?

      Scotty!

      Damn Universal Translator is ont he fritz again!!

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    I wondered...

    where the Sunday Sport journalists had moved to....

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Troll

    Have William Hill opened a book

    on when / how this one will die? Put me down for 2020, drowning, with Colonel Mustard in Mauritius.

  4. Christoph
    Boffin

    More likely to have trouble with the weather

    With the likely weather, tomorrows big event may have to be postponed. NASA will have to scrub the launch and try again later.

  5. F111F
    Pint

    Well Done!

    Hoisting one for Mssr. LaHussy...

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  7. Tony S
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    Simple Answer

    Do what my grandfather did with my aunt - gave her a large swig from his hip flask. OK, by the time she got to the altar, the groom had to hold her up, but at least she was there in body and "spirit"!

    I'm sure Phil the Greek will have a small bottle of ouzo hidden away somewhere.

    1. Mephistro

      For a moment there...

      I read that as if your grandpa had married your aunt, after easing her hesitation with a bit of booze. Kids, that's what watching too much garbage TV does to your brains! :-)

  8. xyz Silver badge
    Black Helicopters

    Wouldn't they just kettle the Kate...

    ...until she got bored, hungry and needed the loo. She's marry him then!

  9. Steve McPolin
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    weapon of choice....

    "... a strategically positioned taxi, driven by an undercover SAS operative ..." - sounds vaguely familiar...

  10. Tony 32
    Grenade

    If this was a soap

    Then Kate would make it to the alter but decline Wills and turn to Harry, quick snog and then both dissapear into a waiting blacked out limo

    1. Adrian Challinor
      Go

      Nooooooo

      That would be The Archers!

  11. amanfromearth
    Pint

    Excellent

    A round of applause for Team Reg I say!

    hip-hip-hooray

  12. Tom Harvey
    Joke

    You tube sensation

    And have they considered how to handle the bandwidth requirements resulting form this existing on youtube? I would expect the death of the internet if this was to happen,

  13. IglooDude
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    A round for the El Reg folks

    who drafted this. Simply brilliant. And +1 to Playmobil reenactment here, too.

  14. hamcheeseandonion
    Pirate

    "Kindly pass me that map constabule, there's a good lad!"

    Right lads! Listen up!

    I need PCs Dixon and Dibble to take Maud The Dinner Lady's white Fiat, and PCs Tubbs 'n Crackpot to filch the keys from That Pratt In Accounting's Honda Fireblade.

    You'll need to move a bit sharpish lads, cause the bint's done a runner...and yes Doyle, i do know who's won the pool, you jammy git!

    Anyway...enough of that cheering cobblers...get your fat arses down to the underpass pronto!

    and remember......be careful out there.

  15. Rob Dobs

    Jokes Aside

    This is a very in-depth sneak peek into the thought processes involved in the UK government.

    The concepts put forth detail s on planned public subterfuge, ringer to call things in the crowd....

    I have not before seen such frank quotes about government plans to affect a persons behavior.

    I know this is just some officials in the U.K. wanting to put their best face on for the world, which is understandable. However it smacks of Nazi/Dictator tactics and makes me think this must be how big brother started out.....

  16. Anonymous Coward
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    I read in the Graun....

    I read in the Guardian that if she does leave him at the alter, National TV would loop video of the crying crowds set to Joy Division's "Atmosphere".

    Cheery.

  17. tas
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    Amazing!

    Seriously, the funniest article I've read online for a long time!

    Well done Marmaduke LaHussy and the Register! Hope you're rewarded with a ton of hits for this one :)

  18. Graham Bartlett

    @Rob Dobs

    Somehow I can't see old Adolf doing Playmobil recreations to the tune of Yakety Sax. Although on the subject of Yakety Sax, if there were a Benny-Hill-esque quantity of bare-breasted women running around, perhaps it would have stiffened French resolve on the Maginot line...

    1. ElReg!comments!Pierre
      Boffin

      Maginot line?

      Technically he just drove around it, invading Belgium in the process, so no amount of bare-breasted female Benny Hills running around to stiffen the Maginot line would have changed anything.

      Also I need mindbleach now.

      1. TeeCee Gold badge
        Joke

        Re: Maginot line?

        Yes, but surely if it *had* been liberally covered with semi-naked girlies the Wehrmacht would have headed en masse straight for it, regardless of any outflanking orders in place and generals throwing their rattles out of their prams. Then it would have been smashed on the defences and WWII would have been rather shorter.

        A very cunning plan, save for it being 70-odd years too late.

        1. ElReg!comments!Pierre

          Re: Re: Maginot line?

          You mean they didn't use the right kind of bombshells to suitably stiffen the Maginot line? I'm not sure about that, it was thick and strong, stiffly erected and quite intimidating. But size and stiffness, although important, are not all, you also need to stick it in the right spot. Although one could argue that the stiff Maginot line was deliberately placed in the front, to trick the Wermacht into penetrating through the Belgian backdoor, thus luring the UK into joining in the fun.

          Imagining cliché-costumed actors roleplaying the whole thing in fast-motion, to the tune of Yakety Sax, is left as an exercise for the reader.

  19. Anonymous Coward
    IT Angle

    Please...

    Can't we just keep one place free from this hype, quite frankly I was bored of it months ago...

    I have my fingers crossed that operation pumpkin is go, it's the only thing which could possibly justify the amount of TV coverage I'm going to have to avoid after the event!

  20. Anonymous Coward
    IT Angle

    I wonder how much trouble you can get in....

    If you were to hop on police bands mid-ceremony tomorrow and start shouting helpful things like "The Pumpkin has left the patch!! Repeat!! Pumpkin has left the patch!! Use of rubber rounds and non-lethal restraint is authorized!!!" :)

    And seriously, Westminster must have a room somewhere (and another one for the prince) that the cold-footed bride and jilted prince could wait in while the guests are told that the wedding will not be held today and are shown out without adding the farce of toffs running down the street followed by hundreds of cops, cameramen, wellwishers and other hangers-on.

  21. Anonymous Coward
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    I for one...

    ... Wish our future heir to throne all the best, and offer my own sage advice that he not follow his fathers example, in replacing the stunning bit of totty he has now, with something that looks like the back end of a horse.

    Mean it and make the most of it!!!!

  22. Herby
    Joke

    Ratings Bonanza??

    Where can I buy the ad space? It would be worth zillions.

    Now where is that viagra web site!

  23. json

    LOL seriously now?

    ... reads like a hollywood movie though.

  24. Johan Bastiaansen
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    Taken seriously

    In the mean time, this was taken up by the (not so) serious media: http://www.zita.be/entertainment/nieuws/1308541_wat-als-kate-middleton-zich-bedenkt.html#reageerhier

  25. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    when's the video due?

    The media coverage of this wedding has been overkill: photo-ops, tame press conferences, clip shows, mindless documentaries, etc. It's been educational. But something's missing. When's the video of the wedding night going on the interweb? We've paid for the fucking wedding so it's only fair we should get to see the whole show.

    Paris icon because she knows how important it is for her public to see a right royal shagging.

  26. DGol

    Good luck chasing her in that dress

    I bet they turned pale when they saw the train.

  27. Andus McCoatover
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    Surely...

    ..there should be an "App for That"™

    Or a game. Call it "One Angry Bird". Basic idea: Said A.B 'flies' out of Westminster Abbey, identified in the multitude only by a long, flowing white dress.

    Spunky Prince prances to Clarence House, nabs his ol' man's Austin Martin*, has to goto RAF Valley as quick as can be whilst avoiding green pigs strategically placed, to grab another 'bird', fly back and use his massively powerful chopper to rescue her before James Hewitt gets his wicked way...

    Nah. Probably get a 'super-injunction' just for thinking about it.

    *Unlocking the wheelclamp first, natch, given a series of clues.

  28. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Happy

    @Evil Auditor

    Congratulations. Having worked that there is no such thing as a 'normal' family advances you at least 5 steps along the path to enlightenment.

  29. Andrew Punch
    Badgers

    But then...

    Doctor Who bursts out from under the priest's dress and takes Kate on a journey through time. And she ends up shagging William the Conquer instead. Whoops

  30. John Gamble
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    Somewhere There are Onion Writers Drinking Heavily

    ... and saying to each other "Why didn't WE think of that?"

  31. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge

    We have a saying ...

    ... that starts:

    "If you love something, set it free."

    There are several alternative endings which I'll leave to your imagination.

  32. ravenviz Silver badge
    Boffin

    Ex-future-princess?

    Ex-future-duchess, surely?

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