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  • Member since
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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
A Message from the Queen
Posted by Bish on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 1:39 PM

Dear American friends, i have been asked to share this important announcement with you all.

 

A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN
 
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, 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. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' 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.'  Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.  (look up 'vocabulary').

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2. 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 U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.  The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of  '-ize.'

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

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4. 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 quite ready to be independent.  Guns should only be used for shooting grouse.  If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse.

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

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6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side 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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7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon.  Get used to it.

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8. 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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9. 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 the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.  American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

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10. 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 dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed  with a cheese grater.

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11. 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 nancies).

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12. 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 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.

--------------------

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

-----------------

14. 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).

---------------

15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. 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!

Big Smile merry Xmas y'all Wink

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. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

 

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).

 

Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, 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. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' 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.' Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary').

 

------------------------

 

2. 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 U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of '-ize.'

 

-------------------

 

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

 

-----------------

 

4. 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 quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse.

 

----------------------

 

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

 

----------------------

 

6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side 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.

 

--------------------

 

7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.

 

-------------------

 

8. 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.

 

-------------------

 

9. 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 the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

 

---------------------

 

10. 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 dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.

 

---------------------

 

11. 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 nancies).

 

---------------------

 

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




I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 1:44 PM

Fine.......could use more colourful government ceremonies - tourism needs a boost.Cool

 

However, I would like to submit a request that Oatmeal Stout be added to the officially sanctioned list.  http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae287/sprue_cegoose/gifs/cheers.gif

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  • From: Willamette Valley, Oregon
Posted by goldhammer on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 2:16 PM

You know, grouse are tough animals to properly put down, especially those in the reinstated "colonies".  Therefore I will require all of the currently held firearms in my possession.

 

You must take the entire legislative, judicial, and executive branches back to Great Britian proper for extended re-education, and they must never be allowed back into the colonies.  Perhaps you should look into reinstating the penal colony down under.

 

As for collection of taxes dating to 1776, since Your Majestie's government has not represented us since that time, you might ask one of the historians from Oxford to swing by the palace and give a refresher course on what happened the last time the colonies were taxed without representation, and the outcome at that time.  It is a long way across the pond to properly support said tax collectors.

 

Merry Christmas to you as well, Your Majesty.

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  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 2:37 PM
Every thing sounds good,but i still want to be off from work July 4th,call it whatever holiday you choose her majesty.

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  • From: Naples, FL
Posted by tempestjohnny on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 2:40 PM
I think I just peed myself. And it wasn't from drinking near frozen gnat urine

 

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Posted by tempestjohnny on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 2:45 PM
In total agreement with everything said. Except the banning of football. I may be British but I like football

 

GAF
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  • From: Anniston, AL
Posted by GAF on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:08 PM

Sirs,

As much as I admire the Queen, the last WWII veteran who holds some position of power, I must sadly decline.  If your own country (which seems to be holding on by the skin of it's collective teeth to it's outlying provinces, such as Scotland) is in such a state, I shudder to think what manner of tomfoolery (yes, look that up in the American Heritage Dictionary) would be unleashed upon our poor nation by a parliament that is, at best, eccentric.  Imagine an election where one party gets 37% of the vote, but 55% of the seats ; while another gets 22% of the vote, but only 9% of the seats.  Talk about hanging chads!

And then there is the Parliamentary voting system of the House of Commons with its "aye" and "nay" rooms.  You have eight minutes to choose one, then the doors are locked.  I do not understand why the British unlock those doors, and I never will.

Perhaps it would be best if England throws itself upon the mercy of its American Cousins while it is still able.  Then you wouldn't have to worry about purchasing those F-35 fighters for those carriers that will never be built, nor worry about how to pronounce "Aluminum", and not sound like a Muslim calling the faithful to prayer.

In conclusion, I doubt any of this is at all considered serious, and is merely one of those British attempts at "humour" to which we have become accustomed.  Besides, what self-respecting Sith Lord would say, "Come to the Dark Side!  We have... biscuits?"

And a very merry Christmas to all of you on the other side of the pond!  Big Smile

Gary

A Proud Redneck

PS> To put an end to this, did your Parliament not in 2004 ban hunting with dogs?  To a Southerner, that would mean war!  Wink

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Posted by rooster513 on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:28 PM

Does this mean I now live in Waterlooshire?Hmm

Thanks for the laugh Bish! Merry Christmas!

-Andy

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  • From: Greenville, NC
Posted by jtilley on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:35 PM

I do believe I could live with all but two of those requirements. The exceptions are the ones about baseball roundabouts. I get my fill of the latter whenever I go to Washington, DC - which has plenty of them. Every time I get into one I lose my sense of direction. And if my wife is riding beside me, she closes her eyes and asks me to tell her when we're beyond it. Whoever invented the concept of the roundabout (or "traffic circle," as it's known here) deserves to be...well, never mind.

Merry Christmas.

Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.

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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:53 PM

jtilley

................whenever I go to Washington, DC - ............

Merry Christmas.

 

Doesn't mention re-naming that city.
After all, it bears the same name as a notorious traitor to the Crown.......Surprise
 
No mention of re-naming some businesses such as Iron Monger, Fish Monger or Greens Grocer. Perhaps that will be corrected, as well.Hmm
 
Happy Christmas ! Big Smile
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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:56 PM

 

Um.............do we still need to register our Droids? 

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  • From: AandF in the Badger State
Posted by checkmateking02 on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 4:14 PM

Will the Queen's birthday replace July 4th?

Singing in the reign!

 

 

 

 

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  • From: providence ,r.i.
Posted by templar1099 on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:03 PM

Guy Fawkes : the ONLY man to enter parliament with honest intentions.

"le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile"

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Posted by the doog on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 6:37 PM

Hear, hear! I approve of this message!

I would only request that we pass some harsh punishments for people who are too lazy to type the whole word "YOU" and who don't use capitals and punctuation. Surely this is some kind of serious civil crime against the English language?

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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 8:27 PM

Does this proclamation mean Jive is outlawed? Surprise

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Posted by modelcrazy on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 11:46 PM

Bish
Bish wrote the following post 10 hours ago: Dear American friends, i have been asked to share this important announcement with you all.   A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN   To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 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. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.) Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy). Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, 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. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' 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.'  Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.  (look up 'vocabulary'). ------------------------ 2. 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 U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.  The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of  '-ize.' ------------------- 3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. ----------------- 4. 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 quite ready to be independent.  Guns should only be used for shooting grouse.  If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse. ---------------------- 5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler.  Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public. ---------------------- 6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side 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. -------------------- 7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon.  Get used to it. ------------------- 8. 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. ------------------- 9. 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 the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.  American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion. --------------------- 10. 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 dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed  with a cheese grater. --------------------- 11. 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 nancies). --------------------- 12. 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 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. -------------------- 13. You must tell us who killed JFK.  It's been driving us mad. ----------------- 14. 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). --------------- 15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. 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! merry Xmas y'all    

Bish
Bish wrote the following post 10 hours ago: Dear American friends, i have been asked to share this important announcement with you all.   A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN   To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 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. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.) Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy). Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, 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. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' 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.'  Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.  (look up 'vocabulary'). ------------------------ 2. 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 U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.  The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of  '-ize.' ------------------- 3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. ----------------- 4. 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 quite ready to be independent.  Guns should only be used for shooting grouse.  If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse. ---------------------- 5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler.  Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public. ---------------------- 6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side 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. -------------------- 7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon.  Get used to it. ------------------- 8. 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. ------------------- 9. 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 the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.  American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion. --------------------- 10. 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 dialect in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed  with a cheese grater. --------------------- 11. 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 nancies). --------------------- 12. 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 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. -------------------- 13. You must tell us who killed JFK.  It's been driving us mad. ----------------- 14. 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). --------------- 15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. 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! merry Xmas y'all    

Right?

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

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Posted by 5-high on Thursday, December 24, 2015 12:29 AM

Near-frozen gnats urine. ..NEAR -FROZEN GNATS URINE! !!!!!!!!! ..layoff my budwiser (Beer) !!!!.. queeny 

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Posted by Gamera on Thursday, December 24, 2015 7:45 AM

I'll consider it. Do I get my own Spitfire Bish??? Big Smile

Merry Christmas to you and the family Bish and all our friends in the UK! 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Thursday, December 24, 2015 11:54 AM

GAF

Sirs,

As much as I admire the Queen, the last WWII veteran who holds some position of power, I must sadly decline.  If your own country (which seems to be holding on by the skin of it's collective teeth to it's outlying provinces, such as Scotland) is in such a state, I shudder to think what manner of tomfoolery (yes, look that up in the American Heritage Dictionary) would be unleashed upon our poor nation by a parliament that is, at best, eccentric.  Imagine an election where one party gets 37% of the vote, but 55% of the seats ; while another gets 22% of the vote, but only 9% of the seats.  Talk about hanging chads!

 

Well, the Scots are more trouble than they are worth. We are actually doing a swap Big Smile

 

GAF
Perhaps it would be best if England throws itself upon the mercy of its American Cousins while it is still able.  Then you wouldn't have to worry about purchasing those F-35 fighters for those carriers that will never be built, nor worry about how to pronounce "Aluminum", and not sound like a Muslim calling the faithful to prayer.

Thats ok, you can keep the 35's. But we will have our Harriers back.

 

They work. Wink

And we will soon have plenty of Carriers to put them on. Though i think a few might need re nameing. The Reagan is ok, but the Bush, well, how does HMS Maggie Thatcher sound Big Smile

 

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Thursday, December 24, 2015 11:56 AM

Try and take my guns away from my cold dead hands.....

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  • From: Cave City, KY
Posted by Watchmann on Thursday, December 24, 2015 1:42 PM

I've always wanted to drive on the left side of the road.

 

Edit: I mean; legally.

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Thursday, December 24, 2015 3:21 PM

jtilley

I do believe I could live with all but two of those requirements. The exceptions are the ones about baseball roundabouts. I get my fill of the latter whenever I go to Washington, DC - which has plenty of them. Every time I get into one I lose my sense of direction. And if my wife is riding beside me, she closes her eyes and asks me to tell her when we're beyond it. Whoever invented the concept of the roundabout (or "traffic circle," as it's known here) deserves to be...well, never mind.

Merry Christmas.

 

In which case, i would suggest avoiding Milton Keynes.

Actually, you had them before we did. In 1907 one of the first in the US was designed by John McLaren. The first British one was in Letchworth Garden City 2 years later.

 

So don't blame us. Big Smile

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by Bish on Thursday, December 24, 2015 3:21 PM

Gamera

I'll consider it. Do I get my own Spitfire Bish??? Big Smile

Merry Christmas to you and the family Bish and all our friends in the UK! 

 

You can have the bloody lot. My xmas pressie just for you.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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Posted by ModelMan68 on Thursday, December 24, 2015 4:49 PM

Bish I love it!!! LMAO. I would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and it's been an immense pleasure getting to know all of you. Bish, please give my love to the Queen when you visit her this hoilday. Cheers 

Jeff     

a.k.a.  ModelMan68 

 

ON THE BENCH:  Spending Time With Family and Friends Big Smile

 

 

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Thursday, December 24, 2015 4:55 PM

Jeff, glad to see you have settle in and have become a member of the FSM family.

 

And a Merry Xmas to you all from Merry old England.

We love you all really

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    May 2013
  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by Greg on Thursday, December 24, 2015 5:02 PM

Hahahaha! And like TempestJohny above, I'm pretty much in agreement with the whole thing.

Except I'm rather aggrivated that I have to register if I want to carry my vegetabe peeler.

Merry Christmas to all. Gift 

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    October 2015
Posted by ModelMan68 on Thursday, December 24, 2015 5:07 PM

Thank you for the kind words Bish....It has been a pleasure meeting A LOT of great people in our forum. You, Stikpusher, RudyonWheels, ModelCrazy.....just to name a few. I look forward to meeting as many as possible. 

Jeff     

a.k.a.  ModelMan68 

 

ON THE BENCH:  Spending Time With Family and Friends Big Smile

 

 

  • Member since
    January 2007
Posted by the doog on Monday, December 28, 2015 3:42 PM

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Try and take my guns away from my cold dead hands.....

 

Jeremiah Johnson did it quite easily from Hatchet Jack's frozen mitts. A nice .50 cal Hawken gun. A right proper hunting rifle.

  • Member since
    September 2005
  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Monday, December 28, 2015 8:34 PM

the doog

 

 
BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Try and take my guns away from my cold dead hands.....

 

 

 

Hey, doog,

kin you skin 'griz? Hmm

  • Member since
    October 2014
Posted by TomZ on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 5:50 PM

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Try and take my guns away from my cold dead hands.....

 

 

To quote the bug from Men in Black: "Your proposal is acceptable."

 

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