Cheers mate, and Merry Christmas.
Posted on 12/13/2004 10:54:43 AM PST by The_Englishman
In the spirit of Christmas - we ARE allies after all...
1) Our military operations are more succesful when we're fighting alongside eachother (WW2, Iraq1, Iraq2, Peace in Northern Ireland).
2) If it wasn't for you we'd be speaking German; if it wasn't for us you'd be speaking French.
3) You put a man on the moon; we put a civilised man on most of the earth.
4) Of the 3,000+ that died on 9/11 - 67 were Brits. We fight these islamofascist bastards together as a result.
5) 200 years ago you politely told us to bugger off. So instead we went and fought the French. You got independence. And we whupped their cheese-eating arses. Good result all round I'd say.
6) Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Enough said.
7) A lot of your places are named after the old country (New England, New Hampshire, etc); a lot of our High Streets are named after the colonies (Macdonalds, Pizza Hut, etc).
8) You have given us The Sopranos and South Park; we have given you Pride and Prejudice and Monty Python.
9) If you look in the dictionary of countries, the United Kingdom and the United States are listed alongside eachother. Kinda apt really.
10) We invented loads of sports and taught the rest of the world how to play them; you invented loads of sports and don't really care if the rest of the world doesn't play them.
11) We realise that if you tried to combine both our countries it wouldn't work. It'd be a disaster. It'd be Canada.
12) The most intelligent Americans I have ever met are Anglophiles; the most successful Brits I have ever met are Amerophiles.
13) We wanna be part of your country more than California does. And I think you'd probably prefer us.
14) You took our ideas on modern democracy and improved them; we took your ideas on rock n roll and improved that.
15) We can empathise with eachother over Hillary Clinton/Cherie Blair.
16) We'll quite happily set Christopher Hitchens on Michael Moore, if you send Rush Limbaugh after George Galloway.
17) London is the city you visit most outside of North America; New York is the city we visit most outside of Europe.
18) The reason we're such a staunch ally is because we're clever enough to realise that you could squash any country you wanted. Feel free to use the Channel Tunnel when you invade France.
19) Angelina Jolie and Kate Beckinsale. Enough said.
20) Freerepublic - the product of both our nations. Tim Berners Lee and Jim Robinson. Bless you both.
And a Merry Christmas to you all.
21. Bass Ale and Michigan Brewing (unfortunatly our best known beers and ale aren't our best work)
I spent a couple of week long boondoogles on London, and the food was GREAT! Curry, Italian, BarBeeQue, Tex/Mex, French and actually pretty good luncheon platters laid on by our English hosts everyday.
I did grab some bangers and mash on a side trip to the HMRGO, not at all bad, either.
XX.) You gave the World Greenwich Time and the Prime Meridian, we gave the World GPS, so they could use them.
LOL! Love it! Great post!
Please do, ye cheese-eatin' surre . . . oh, you've probably heard that one before. ;)
Now there's a Freudian slip.
Amen to that, friend! And yes, if you would like to switch with California, we will be glad to have you!
A Merry Christmas to you and yours!
To be perfectly honest, we don't. You do.
Actually, I think you should change to match us. I appreciate it would be a massive program. But if you phased it in, perhaps numerically, on the license plate. I can't see much of a problem.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. My family and I all fell in love with the flapjacks and have looked for them everywhere in the U.S. We couldn't find them in any store, even in international food markets. I'm going to try this recipe ASAP. Assuming I can pull it off, you have just made my family's month!
I beg to differ. We saw right off the bat that you were driving on the wrong side of the road so we fixed the problem. It seems you are very stubborn about correcting the said problem. Tsk...Tsk...Tsk.
But California has better weather.....
and earthquakes...
Nevermind...
Just to show our appreciate of the UK, we'll send Ann Coulter after George Galloway.
You ate a dachshund?
Cheers mate, and Merry Christmas.
"Just to show our appreciate of the UK, we'll send Ann Coulter after George Galloway."
Hmph! You're nicer than I am. They're only willing to send a barely reformed Marxist (Hitchens) against an unreformed Marxist (Moore), and we're going to send them -Ann- in return? Ann's not that cheap in my book!
I'd demand that they send someone with a better political track record than Hitchens after Moore, but other than Thatcher, I'm having trouble thinking of anyone. When a barely reformed Marxist is actually in the top tier of what you have to offer, well.......
But Merry Christmas to the Brits anyway ;)
Qwinn
Benny Hill!
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