Just Wondering Why 4.24

[weecalf]

The child was born 4.24 notice put up on gate at 8.48 if it was born at say 5.15 would the great british public have had to wait till half ten?

[factor-fiction]

No- my maths says it would have been around 9:39.
I suppose they wanted to be able to have some time together first and to enjoy the moment with each other and family before telling the world, and they wanted to make sure mum and baby were well. Maybe the timing was also to fit in with TV coverage, newspaper timescales etc. Do you feel you were deprived of teh knowledge for 4 hours 24 minutes?

[factor-fiction]

Oh, maybe your maths is fine- I see you have doubled the times.

[netibiza]

Well the mother and baby would have to be checked over and the Queen told first by car not twitter so guess it all takes time.

[factor-fiction]

4.24 doubles to 8.48
5.15 doubles to 10.30
I suppose if it had been born at 0.01 we'd have heard within a minute

[ummmm]

You couldn't expect an announcement any sooner. Giving birth has risks of complications. I assume that mother and baby had to be given the all clear.

[factor-fiction]

I think weecalf is just making a joke

[ummmm]

Oh...it's too early for jokes :-)

[weecalf]

Did not really matter to me when it was just that it happen o be double the time. Could be a question on mastermind some time .

[mikey4444]

More fool those sad people that waited in the streets for this announcement.

[Alston]

My inside information is that the baby had to be weighed and an Avoirdupois weighing Scale could not be found in the Hospital. Red tape then meant a suitable appliance being located and it's use approved by numerous Whitehall staff, along with Advisers to Her Majesty the Queen.

Al.

[weecalf]

interesting .I did not know that .so that was the reason then .When I was young and the birth had been in a western film .The cameras would have been up them stairs right a way after birth and the child would have had a full head of hair and we would have go off the last bus and safely home in 4hrs.24 min

[factor-fiction]

You'll have to give me some time to work that one out, weecalf

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// More fool those sad people that waited in the streets for this
announcement. ///

Don't criticise, insult and otherwise put people down, just because they have different interests to you.

If people want to travel from afar as the US say and camp out on the streets to be there on that historical moment, then who are you to call them sad fools?

Everyone to there own.

[Baldric]

Well said aog, it's just not done to criticise those who don't share your opinions is it?
s you say, each to thEIR own.

[grasscarp]

I am still stunned that slackalice predicted the exact time and sex of baby yesterday morning on here.

[sandyRoe]

Was there no one available who could do the maths and work out what 3 and a bit kilos is in Imperial weights?