JayC Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 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: You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. 1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. 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'. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary'). 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. 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. 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. 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. 8. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline)-roughly $8/US gallon. Get used to it. 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. 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 Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion. 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. 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 nancies). Don't try Rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us. 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. 14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad. 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). 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. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Nice one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendam. Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 Very funny John, my mates and I are laughing our socks off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 You wear socks :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Very good JC! Don't forget to increase the tax on tea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayC Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Obs. I was in Boston last april I never saw any signs of tea floating in the bay. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 If the water was brown, perhaps the tea had sunk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayC Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Peter. the Charles River is the colour (notice the use of the letter U) of a Caramac ( I mean the chocolate bar of old and not a Liverpool defenders raincoat. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 The first thing to come to mind when you mentioned a chocolate bar and Liverpool was 's..nickers' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayC Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Wolfie. We never mentioned Liverpool and chocolate , we mentioned Boston. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 ( I mean the chocolate bar of old and not a Liverpool defenders raincoat. Sorry I must have mis-read it :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayC Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Wolfie. My mistake sorry , its been a long day John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 No probs, my posts probably make the day even longer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alana Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 Just sent this to all my USA friends over here...keep telling them we gave them a decent language and they messed it up !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithR Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 Just sent what? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted February 14, 2008 Report Share Posted February 14, 2008 I believe the topic post??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alana Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 My American friends found this so funny as I keep telling them we are taking the country back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Wonderful proclamation -- just what we need. Certainly the form of government we adopted is idiotic and counterproductive. Every time I see a debate in Parliament I'm envious of a country where people can actually entertain coherent thoughts, not just vote the way one's corporate patron has instructed them to vote. There were three issues I might address, though. First of all, tomato catsup is far superior to vinegar on crisps. In fact it is good on anything, even cuts of meat. Second, 99.9 per cent of U.S. citizens have the same mis-perception of the baseball WORLD SERIES. It's an obscure, little known fact that the first World Series was sponsored by a newspaper called the New York World. The first series were probably cross town -- Brooklyn vs. Bronx or whatever, and gradually other teams around the country came to play in the World Series. Did you know that the soldiers in General Custer's Seventh Cavalry enjoyed playing games of baseball? Third, it might be too ambitious an undertaking to create an Anglo-American bureaucracy, in spite of all the benefits we Yanks would gain -- we must be realistic. I suggest we get Canada to spark the uniting . Once we look on the map to see a Soviet size state, it would be easier for a merger with Britannica Insula, n'est pas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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