UK taking back USA. NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE

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

[Cruising Speed]

Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

lol!

[stinkerpot65]

Some of you may not realize that this is a j-o-k-e. Main Entry: 1joke

Pronunciation: 'jOk

Function: noun

Etymology: Latin jocus; perhaps akin to Old High German gehan to say, Sanskrit yAcati he asks

1 a : something said or done to provoke laughter; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist b (1) : the humorous or ridiculous element in something (2) : an instance of jesting : KIDDING c : PRACTICAL JOKE d : LAUGHINGSTOCK

2 : something not to be taken seriously : a trifling matter -- often used in negative construction

[Heatseeker]

I thought this one was way better than the 2000 edition (whoever wrote that).

The bit about the guns was as much directed at Britain as it was at America.

[lepton]

negative construction...that's digging basements, right? :)

[TitansAFC]

I think some people are missing the fact that this is a parody written in the language of traditional British humor. I have often said that the British keep forgetting to add the letter "z" to their words, and keep adding the letter "u" to words in which it doesn't belong. ;-)

I'll agree to many of the demands, but you good folks have to do away with the metric system. My car gets forty rods to the hogs-head and that's the way I like it.

All in good transatlantic taste,
TitansAFC (In our version of football, the PLAYERS riot)

[Tanniker Smith]

The citizens of the United States are quite aware of who Tony Blair is.

He appeared on an episode of "The Simpsons". He wore a jet pack, and he's kind of yellow.

TS

[Oztrich Boy]

And God forbid they should try and redo "Red Dwarf"!

Too smegging late.

American Dwarf
The American NBC network and Universal commissioned a pilot for a prospective American version. The character of Lister was changed to be more of a 'Han Solo' than the slob of the British version, while Holly was played by Jane Leeves who would later find fame as a castmember of the US sit-com Frasier. The 'H' on Rimmer's forehead was replaced by a silver ball and, significantly, both of the roles originally played by black actors were recast as Caucasian for fear of 'political incorrectness'

Actually made it to two pilots being produced -unlike More or Less OK (projected US version of Absolutely Fabulous)

Lest we forget Monty Python's Flying Circus was "adapted for television" by NBC

And who can forget (no matter how hard we try) Amanda's (The US version of Fawlty Towers)

[alienken]

It would be hard to take it seriously if it was real.I would like to see it.

[Forceful1]

Funny stuff! Whether he wrote it or not I could almost hear him say every word. Glad some of our American friends got the humour. I guess you'd have to have read all of it to appreciate that the sarcasm cuts both ways. Still grinning here. Thanks for the 1:40am laugh.

[Cicero]

I think it's pretty funny. Let's get real, it's not as if it's about to happen.

[Cicero]

P.S. Just think about it a little. Exactly who is the butt of this humor? We all know that Americans wouldn't put up with this kind of arbitrary bossiness from their Lords and Masters for a minute.

But the English do. It wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that you need a special permit to carry a vegetable peeler in England nowadays. Just a few weeks ago a reporter told of being arrested and hauled off to jail because he was driving his car and had a penknife in his pocket.

The joke's on them, not us.

[deaconjim]

Being married to a Brit, I saw the humo(u)r in this list until I got to:

7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

All I've got to say is: Here are all of mine. Come and get them!

[IronJack]

Your point is accepted in the same vein in which it was intended.

[anotherview]

As long as we don't have to start eating British 'food'.

Amen.

[FourtySeven]

I must admit I thought it was funny. :)

[onja]

I thought it was funny. Of course I took it with a grain of salt. I do have to admit there was one joke in it that was true. Football is good. American football...

[onja]

I thought it was funny. Of course I took it with a grain of salt. I do have to admit there was one joke in it that was true. Football is good. American football...

[K76]

Thank you very much - I haven't laughed like that in years. If it wasn't for the fact that so many of you are actually taking this seriously I would suggest that your responses were almost as funny as the original article. All you people have done is confirm for everyone out there that the United States of America is full of in-bred, knee-jerk reactionary, gun toting, ignorant, isolationist, redneck hillbillies!

Thanks again for the laughs!

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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