UK taking back USA. NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE

by e-mail | some time ago | Basil Fawlty (or John Cleese)

[anotherview]

Methinks some people are too easily offended.

Perhaps it comes from my growing up in The City. (That's New York. There is no other. Just largish towns :)

[Lazamataz]

This is comedy. I'm beginning to think American conservatives can't take a joke.

Anytime anyone talks about taking away guns, my comedy switch turns off.

[Mr. Lucky]

The fact that there is an world at all outside our borders is entirely attributable to the bloody sacrifice, grace and restraint of generations of Americans.

[daku]

will we still get to go to dentists regularly ?

[95 Bravo]

Yeah, they can have "the colonies" back when they regain the rest of their Empire............
By the way, Mr. Cleese- exactly WHY should we put up with that freak show you call a Royal Family? Isn't it bad enough that YOU have to?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[Junior]

This is comedy. I'm beginning to think American conservatives can't take a joke.

Amen. There is a definite streak of conservatism that is as humourless as the most ardent liberalism. And what's even funnier, neither the conservatives nor liberals evincing that streak are aware of it.

[sandviper]

LMAO ---- some kind of funny!!!

[Willie Green]

You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation.

Basil Fawlty (or John Cleese) is a jagoff 'nat.

[CholeraJoe]

Bite me blokes. Going to cuddle up tonight with my assault rifle.

[SittinYonder]

I thought this was really very funny. I enjoyed it. I'll confess when I got to the part about taking away our guns I reached for my pistol and made a threat under my breath, but then I remembered it was John Cleese and supposed to be funny and enjoyed the rest. The part about the salt being added to tea - that was pretty good. ... Still, though, knowing that they actually took peoples' guns in England makes the whole gun thing a little unnerving for me.

[APFel]

GB has no claim to Florida or anything west of the Mississippi (except maybe Hawaii). The Louisiana Purchase would be declared null and void since France entered a contract with an unlawful nation. Alaska was Russian, so they could make claims on it. Indeed, the west belonged to France and Spain (who we should openly encourage to flex their military muscle to try to reclaim... Hah!)

Since France, Spain and Russia likely wouldn't be able to send an occupying force to quell any resistance movements, we can readopt the Bill of Rights and call ourselves sovereign. Again.

The Western United States could then invade the East, and with the aid of resistance fighters, reclaim the land by conquest. We would then nuke the enslaving British nation to a glowing hole visible from Pluto and live happily ever after.

And we can play our football, eat our fries, and get our teeth fixed at our leisure.

The End.

Apf

[LexBaird]

Mr. Cleese, please return at once to the Ministry of Silly Walks. It is much more in keeping with your political acumen.

[TigersEye]

11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.

One good idea out of sixteen. Not bad for a Brit. ;^P

[IronJack]

Dear Basil:

It is with great regret that I must decline your offer of re-annexation to the Crown. While there may have been some benefit to that act in the glory days of Empire, no such benefit would accrue to the United States these days.

The UK is a quaint, even likable place, or would be were it not for the confounded Brits that keep cropping up every time you turn around.

I'm fairly certain that I could persuade our government to allow Great Britain entry into the Union, although I'm less sure about Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Should you decline that option, I'm afraid we'll just have to remain distant friends and allies.

Sincerely,

IronJack

PS: Please leave our language alone. We've finally gotten it to a point where it's understandable. By the way, if the proclivities of the world are the justifying criteria for behavior, you might want to note what side of the road most folks drive on.

[506trooper]

It's funny.....for lots of different reasons, but mostly because it's good to be an American and not care what Cleese has to say.

Warm beer tastes like what I imagine stale pi$$ would taste like, and any country that chooses to serve it that way has no business criticizing anyone else.

[LadyPilgrim]

Maybe they've forgotten..........we faught a war for our independence. Nothing was given to us.

And Thank you, Dear, for the ping! ;-)

[citizen]

They lost me when I got to #6.

[Dead Dog]

still pretty funny.