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Message to America; from John Cleese
Topic Started: Feb 20 2008, 02:17 AM (105 Views)
Eral
Kopi Luwak
This amused me greatly, but the topic of whether America Is Great or not is a bit hot at times, and well, I don't pour petrol on burning men on purpose. :ph43r:
However, the news that America has a National Pancake Day has stung mightily, and requires a :mrugly: :razz: reply of some sort.

With apologies to Mr.Cleese, for editing out a few bits that I felt were too rude. These are indicated by ***

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A Message from John Cleese

To the citizens of the United States of America:

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent
candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we
hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective
immediately.

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical
duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas,
which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for
America without the need for further elections. Congress and the
Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following
rules are introduced with immediate effect:
***
1. You should look up aluminium in the Oxford English Dictionary, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. ***While you're at it, take a moment to discover the difference between "lose" and "loose" - you may lose your wallet, in which you had loose change.

2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise'.

3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises
such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form
of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let
Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell- checker will be
adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the
elimination of -ize.

4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

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5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns,
lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and
therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent.

Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to
sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then
you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.

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6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything
more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if
you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

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7. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will
start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you
will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of
conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you
understand the British sense of humour.

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8. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline)-roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.

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9. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French
fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling
potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut,
fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

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10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not
actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be
referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted
provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also
acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting Nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of
British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will
be referred to as Near-Frozen Cat's Urine, so that all can be sold
without risk of further confusion.

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11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as
good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to
play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English
dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to
having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.

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12. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind
of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough
will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities
to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every
twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of
pansies). Don't try Rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash
you, like they regularly thrash us.

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13. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to
host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played
outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a
world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will
learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to
take the sting out of their deliveries.

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14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

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15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's
Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all
monies due (backdated to 1776).

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16. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, with
saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and
cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.


God save the Queen.


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underdog
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Irish Breakfast
4. WHAT!!! :o No fireworks? how boring. :angry:

5. :unsure: although fewer lawyers would be nice, it is estimated that they add 25% to the cost of everythging.

7. roundabouts? :rolf: Metric system No big deal.

8. Sounds like he should be in the MN legislature. because of the i35 bridge collapse, they see need to write up an $8.5B tax increase, so that would be about right for the gas prices they want. :badmood:

9. I don't like vinegar :unsure:

10. I don't drink beer. ;D

11. didn't see the movie, and who's Andie MacDowell?

12. i don't watch football either.

13. I don't watch baseball either.

14. I don't know and don't care either, so neither should you, so there. ;D

15. Don't sound much different from the IRS. Already used to it. :lol:

16. Well if you insist, maybe I could get a break during the day.

But if you would build a fence on the border and send the Illegals back go right ahead, seeing as the current government can't do it. :(
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lara
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp
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Regullus
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Reliant
Predictably, I am quite amused by the American response. I would cut and paste but Snopes doesn't seem to allow it. It don't think other nations truly appreciate the deep satirical talent of the Average American.

I had read the Snopes article before.

:titter:
tempus_teapot
 
I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Burgundy
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Used to be alright; what happened?
Who cares who wrote it, all of it is fabulously true.
"Though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Ulysses
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Eral
Kopi Luwak
Which one?

The American response is not bad: especially the line about the monarchy being a backward step, but the English one is funnier. ;D

Why is it called the World Series? :lol:
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Regullus
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Reliant
Perhaps you have to be American to fully appreciate the American version, it's pretty funny.
tempus_teapot
 
I'd like to add that at this point I have taken my Spider Jerusalem action figure and tied his wrist to my Cassidy (from Preacher) action figure just so I can work out which positions are feasible with them and which aren't.

Read that and weep, internet. Weep!

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Joe
Coffea Canephora
I didn't think the English one was very funny at all.
In the shadow of the light from a black sun
Frigid statue standing icy blue and numb
Where are the frost giants I've begged for protection?
I'm freezing
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lara
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I laughed out loud at the one Eral posted, but not at the first American one on the Snopes site. I couldn't even make myself finish reading the second American one. And I spell organize with a Zed.
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Nibsi
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Te zijner tijd
I used to be an UK English fanatic, but it's become really troublesome what with programming languages being written in US English. That said, I use both dictionaries for Firefox, though I still prefer the UK dictionary.
-Nibby
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Burgundy
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Used to be alright; what happened?
All in US English, crikey.
"Though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Ulysses
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