747438 From United Kingdom (England), joined Jan 2007, 559 posts, RR: 4 Posted (1 year 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 3647 times:
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
In light of your declining failure to handle your economy and to nominate competent candidates for President and thus to govern yourselves, We hereby give notice of the revocation of your Independence, effective immediately.(if necessary,look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will now resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Utah, which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, the same one who is our Prime Minister, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
To aid in the return of your country to the status of a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
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1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will now 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. (if necessary,look up 'vocabulary' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
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2. There is no such thing as U.S. English. English is the language we speak. 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 be celebrated as a holiday in order to acknowledge the end of your unsuccessful 250 year experiment in independence.
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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 yet to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or spending hours with 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. 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 of the road with immediate effect. Using roundabouts while you learn to drive on the left may help you understand the British sense of humour.
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7. At the same time, all your forms of measurement will go metric with immediate effect. We had to do it 20 years ago and we discovered that it works better than the old imperial system anyway. However because your monetary system is already metric (you got that bit right) you will be permitted to maintain the dollar as your form of currency. We may however decide to brighten up those dull old green and black notes were some exciting new spring colours.
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8. Speaking of money however you will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been mistakenly calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.
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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. Australian beer is also acceptable, as (based on their rather small population) they are the greatest sporting nation on earth and this can only be due to something they put in their beer. They are also still a part of the British Commonwealth - see what it has done for them.
American beer-type drinks will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that they can be sold without risk of further confusion until you get used to drinking proper beer.
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10. Hollywood will be required 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 Royal ears removed with a cheese grater.
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11. You will cease playing that game that you call American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you (mistakenly) 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 hold an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the Australians first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
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13. You must tell us who killed JR. It's been driving us mad.
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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).
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15. 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 with vinegar not with tomato sauce (which you mistakenly call catsup) .
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16. Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. Daily with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits ( which you mistakenly refer to as cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
1 Alias1024: Dear Great Britain, You have to apologize (with a 'z') for the Spice Girls and James Blunt before we will give attention to any communication from you
2 Bwest: See point 4... (and 5) Ah, if only the Brits would have kept their empire intact...
3 HowSwedeitis: Please add George Micheal and Boy George to that list as well, alias. On behalf of the United States, I suggest perhaps swapping, oh say, Florida. Th
4 Alias1024: Done. As a good will gesture toward the British people, we in the United States agree to apologize for Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Even we don't
6 Levent: And the Dutch should get back New York and rename it once again into New Amsterdam...
7 Rsg85: Im not having a go Lizzy buttt...... there needs to be some changes at home first Ohh and commonly used words in England like "innit" can be found in
8 SpeedBirdA380: Amusing post "747438" but I think you have opened up a can of worms with this one! I am just waiting for the American response. As my old school teach
9 Baroque: You might get some way up the river on your tour if you arrive on a spring tide, but after that you would become (another) permanent exhibit. At Wool
10 LTBEWR: Yes, maybe in a return to the UK would end the horrible situaton of our Presidential Elections that take years and consume $1 Billions mostly in bribe
11 Lowrider: To be henceforth known as The United State of America? This should go a long way towards reducing and overpopulation issues. That is your own fault.
12 KiwiRob: I wouldn't want to upset the applecart but Andie MacDowell was playing an American in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
13 Davehammer: I've seen this sent round the internet in many ways shapes or forms for the last year or so. It even has a group on Facebook with a fair few members o
14 Phoenix9: Oh thank you oh wise one...where would we feeble minded A.nutters be without your guidance and deelp insights.
15 Allstarflyer: I thought speaking irresponsibily was Prince Phillip's job.
16 Dougloid: B-b-but yer Royal Highness, what ever will you do about the continuing intrusions and impositions from the Colossus of the Great White North? Why, the
17 Lowrider: Doesn't that make you a Canuckaphobe?
18 Davehammer: Alright, calm down. I've seen very many responses to this elsewhere where a load of people have taken it very seriously and it's ended in a slanging
19 Dougloid: If I was I'd be up against my maternal grandparents who were Gallaghers from Nova Scotia, eh? On the other hand perhaps that was all part of a dev'li
21 DLPMMM: Dear Queen Elizibeth II, Come on now....say it.....Who's yer Daddy? That's right! Now let's tart you up and get you out on the corner where you belong
22 KL773ER: I whole heartedly agree along with the fact that Dutch should be reinstated as the official language of the land. Signed, KL773ER
23 Dougloid: they can effing have it for all I care. It's a good place to dump their nuclear waste.
24 Bwest: Agreed, but I insist on "southern" dutch, the one spoken in Flanders. Dutch from The Netherlands is just too sharp and painfull on the ears.
25 Cadet985: Ask and ye shall receive... In the light of your dissatisfaction with the European Union, your bickering with European Governments (most notably the
26 Vikkyvik: I'd say they should first apologize for ripping off a post from 3 years ago http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo...ums/non_aviation/read.main/932212/
27 Dougloid: Driver: Constable, how do I get to Stratford-on-Avon? Constable: Welcome to Britain County, Texas, ma'am. It's just up the road a piece. It is a mite
28 SpeedBirdA380: Ok point taken. In return please stop Hollywood's abomination of history and historical facts. A few examples are Braveheart and U-571. Agree with yo
29 SpeedBirdA380: P.s We also tune in to laugh and chuckle at the fanfair of the thing you call the "Race for the Whitehouse" where big smiles, cheesy music and flag wa
30 ThreeFourThree: We don't want no queen anymore. Get off our money, courts and our Governor General Signed, The Country with Kangaroos jumping down the street, REPUBLI
31 SpeedBirdA380: If you dont want her anymore then do something about it! Its no use keep moaning about having the British flag in the corner of your Australian flag
32 DLPMMM: Australia, We wouldn't know. No one here watched that piece of crap movie. We just made it for export because we know those foreign rubes will watch
33 Dougloid: Do you know how to say "Forty five" ThreeFourThree? Because that's how many years it's been since that movie was released. Fer chrissakes, get someth
35 Luv2cattlecall: I would go as far as to say we're more efficient as a society for removing unnecessary lettering - thus preventing incidences of carpal tunnel, which
36 WrenchBender: Finally someone with the wit and talent to respond effectively. It only took 25 replies WrenchBender
37 Baroque: This is the time to note that Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born in Peekskill NY. Cannot argue there SpeedBird, but you see as soon as the constit
38 Skidmarks: Damn Colonials playing up again? Send a gunboat! Or are they all in the Middle East subjugating the natives? Oh wait, we don't HAVE any gunboats. Damm
39 Moose135: As if it were "granted" by the monarch. As I remember it, we opened a big can of whoopass on him at Yorktown...
40 DocLightning: No, SpeedBird, I've traveled far and wide and raised many a pint with my British mates. Fact is that as much as you guys crow on and on about your be
41 Vikkyvik: Eh, no worries. Just another thing to add to the long list of stuff the UK needs to apologize for.
42 DocLightning: No, SpeedBird, I've traveled far and wide and raised many a pint with my British mates. Fact is that as much as you guys crow on and on about your be
43 Skidmarks: Sorry, son, but America couldn't make a drinkable beer if they tried. I daresay you like camel urine. Personally I wouldn't touch the stuff (Fosters
44 DocLightning: Come to SF and we'll have a Fat Tire. And then an Anchor Steam. And then a bottle of Prohibition Ale. THAT'S beer. Don't ever mistake this "Budweiser
45 Alias1024: You should visit Portland, Oregon. They have over 30 breweries producing world class beer. The city pretty much floats on a sea of Ales, IPAs, Porter
46 Baroque: Those shower controls you favour should be outlawed by the UN because the ON/OFF is mixed up with temp so you never have a clue what is going to desc
47 DocLightning: I have twin knobs on mine, homeslice. And you're Ozzie. You already submitted. You back off! Go eat a kangaroo or witchetty grub or something!
48 Skidmarks: Ooooooh, the colonials are arguing!!! Quick, sneak the SAS in to cripple their infrastructure while we take over using the Royal Family! I think Char
49 Baroque: There is such opposition to Charlie boy, the thought of him as KoA is getting quite attractive! And of course the best thing is Q C is really on the
50 Skidmarks: I should, I should. But I have a problem - she won't let me!! Andy
51 SpeedBirdA380: Come on boys and girls lets stop all this bickering Doc Lightning I am sure you guys can make some great beer. In fact I am going to try and find and
52 Skidmarks: Bickering, and winding up the colonials is what life is all about. It's all good humoured (note the spelling) and all jolly good fun. Yep, boy have w
54 Dougloid: Just one big happy dysfunctional family, methinks.
55 DocLightning: Have you BEEN to the U.S. lately? We don't need no steenkin' SAS to cripple our infrastructure. 8 years of Bush has taken care of that nicely. Infras
56 Skidmarks: You wait until the compulsory "Speak proper English" classes start, then you'll be "having a jolly good giggle" on the other side of your face! Andy
57 Nonrevman: So you want us back, your majesty? We should be able to work something out. However there are some assurances we will need: (1) We will need to adopt
58 DocLightning: I'm fine with this, but.. we're re-doing the Pound. Henceforth, there will be a 1p, 5p, 10p, and 25p coin. Then there will be £1, £2, £5, £10, £
59 SpeedBirdA380: Sadly greed and corruption have spoiled some of the things this counrty used to be great at and I am guessing your country too.
61 Wingscrubber: Dear America, With respect, 'the rest of the world' does not drive on the right. Here is a list of countries and territories that drive on the same si
62 Lowrider: Yes, but here is the list of the countries that don't everybody else with motor vehicles. you might be out numbered on. They already speak the langua
63 SpeedBirdA380: It would be intersteing to find out how many people drive on the left and how many drive on the right. But I guess with Russia,China,America and India
64 ShyFlyer: They already have an embassy in London: http://www.texasembassy.com/
65 Vikkyvik: India drives on the left. Here's a handy map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C...s_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg To sum it up: Places with rig
66 Skidmarks: Bills are what utility companies send you, or what you settle in a restaurant. Notes are what the normal world uses as currency. Bills are also what
67 Baroque: Having Charles would be good for that proportion of Murcan citizens who after this next election will be feeling an intense desire to talk to trees a
68 ThrottleHold: ....and while you're all distracted bickering at each other, we Irish are secretly taking over the world!
69 Skidmarks: Until you get too pissed to stand up and then...................... Andy
70 Dougloid: Correct, Skiddy. It is said that God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the world.
71 DocLightning: Do you want a Second Revolutionary War? We whupped you in the first one and we didn't have any fancy aircraft carriers and SSBN's for that one. Don't
72 Vc10: Well there is gratitude because at the battle of Yorktown I believe it was your French which beat our Germans I think you will find there were more F
73 Skidmarks: Ah, how soon they forget their friends. As my good friend VC-10 says, if it wasn't for the French you wouldn't have HAD a first revolutionary war. An
74 SpeedBirdA380: Yeah but those freedom fries sure taste better than the french ones. I would not tell your wife to worry about the cricket green's. The bombs will pr
75 Af773atmsp: So will BA takeover AA? But then Richard Branson will once again have the "no way BA and AA" campaign. What will happen to Minnesota? We might be a sm
77 DocLightning: Wow, Skiddy, I didn't know you were into that kind of freaky, kinky stuff. Hmm, maybe you need to check out SF's Folsom Street Fair.
78 Skidmarks: You didn't know? Well, you'll soon find out Andy
79 DocLightning: OHBOYOHBOYOHBOYOHBOY!!!! Another few conditions of your takeover. A proper Fish & Chips joint must be installed within 15 minutes of all citizens wit
80 Skidmarks: Calm down, I'm as straight as a straight thing, just ever so slightly perverted Marmite (The correct way to spell that muck) will be compulsory eatin
81 DocLightning: OK. How can you NOT like maple syrup? It's only one of the best things ever. And we are SO not eating Marmuck. Don't understand how you lot can stoma
Af773atmsp From United States, joined Aug 2006, 2127 posts, RR: 2 Reply 82, posted (1 year 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1501 times:
Dear Queen Elizabeth II,
Us Americans tried so long to be strong but we finally lost. I expect there to be more rail service made in America as the United Kingdom. And Minnesota is a very important state (although not according to DocLightning ) and has culture and is still an industrial state. We got a big lake and yes you can have some of the water from Superior (it was hard enough telling Japan we would not give them our water). I'm looking forward to the takeover of America from the UK and seeing many positive things happen to Minnesota.
P.S.-can you tell Air France to bring a 777-300 from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport?
Its not a question of if an Air France 773 will be at MSP, its just a question of when.-May 31, 2009
Baroque From Australia, joined Apr 2006, 10612 posts, RR: 51 Reply 83, posted (1 year 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1463 times:
Quoting Skidmarks (Reply 80): We will, however, adopt the Yellow Buses for schools as that enables us to locate and exterminate the little bastards that cause mayhem on our streets.
But where will you get a supply of buses of such an ancient design? What are the plans to get to the root of the problem, so to speak, by exterminating the mothers of the little dears queing up in their Soho tractors or whatever you are calling them these days? How about instant compaction for any vehicle (and occupants) incorrectly parked within 0.5 miles of a school at whatever hours are appropriate?
Skidmarks From United Kingdom (England), joined Dec 2004, 6985 posts, RR: 68 Reply 84, posted (1 year 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1463 times:
Quoting Baroque (Reply 83): But where will you get a supply of buses of such an ancient design
Most of them drive around Crawley I believe!
Lets stick to the original script here. I could rant for hours about the school run, Chelsea tractors and other blots on the character of Merrye Olde England.
The point is, those colonial types will just have to get used to a more genteel, refined and posher society which we will enforce just as soon as we exterminate the riff-raff and trash over here.
DocLightning From United States, joined Nov 2005, 6952 posts, RR: 42 Reply 88, posted (1 year 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1318 times:
Quoting Lowrider (Reply 87): Are there restictions on caliber? Is there a shotgun season? Can we use dogs? You might have a new tourist industry there.
A chav can only be truly killed by a bullet with a Burberry check painted on it.
Lowrider From United States, joined Jun 2004, 2709 posts, RR: 11 Reply 89, posted (1 year 3 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1299 times:
Quoting DocLightning (Reply 88): A chav can only be truly killed by a bullet with a Burberry check painted on it.
No stakes through the heart, sunlight, or holy water then? Given their ability to multiply faster than rabbits, I wonder if a bounty could be established?
Skidmarks From United Kingdom (England), joined Dec 2004, 6985 posts, RR: 68 Reply 90, posted (1 year 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1285 times:
Quoting Lowrider (Reply 89): No stakes through the heart, sunlight, or holy water then? Given their ability to multiply faster than rabbits, I wonder if a bounty could be established?
Actually, once the revocation of independance has been ratified we then plan to ship all chavs - indeed, anyone found wearing Burberry baseball caps/trousers/handbags etc - to the USoUK to help populate those sparser areas where they would obviously have their own hunting season. Say, from January to December?
Lowrider From United States, joined Jun 2004, 2709 posts, RR: 11 Reply 91, posted (1 year 3 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1259 times:
Quoting Skidmarks (Reply 90): to the USoUK to help populate those sparser areas where they would obviously have their own hunting season. Say, from January to December?
For a modest amount of money, you could establish a hunting preserve in, say, the Dakotas. Or if you wanted to more closely mimic their natural environment you could purchase large portions of Detroit relatively cheaply. No need to wait until the hostile take over. Right now we could use the cash and you could stand to thin the herd of chavs there. Truly a win-win.
DocLightning From United States, joined Nov 2005, 6952 posts, RR: 42 Reply 93, posted (1 year 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1205 times:
Quoting Skidmarks (Reply 90): to the USoUK to help populate those sparser areas where they would obviously have their own hunting season. Say, from January to December?
I'm starting to like this guy... However, NO CHAVS IN CALIFORNIA. Send them to Alaska and let Sarah Palin deal with them.
Quoting Lowrider (Reply 91): Or if you wanted to more closely mimic their natural environment you could purchase large portions of Detroit relatively cheaply.
Have you been to Detroit recently? I'm a native Detroiter (well, Detroit metro-er). We don't have Chavs in the U.S., we have gangstas. And believe me, the gangstas will eat the chavs alive. No white kid with an English accent who thinks he's nails is going to last for 3 seconds against a Detroit gangsta thug. Chavs can't survive there, so if your goal is to hunt them, put them somewhere else.
Actually, I have, I used to regularly visit DET and am familiar with the neighborhood, and at a previous company I was based at YIP and spent more time there than at home. Not the worst, but not exactly the best Detroit has to offer either. That is why I said you should buy up an area and make it into a preserve. Sort of like a hunting theme park. The native wildlife would kill them off in days, if not hours. What is the fun in that?
DocLightning From United States, joined Nov 2005, 6952 posts, RR: 42 Reply 95, posted (1 year 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1191 times:
Quoting Lowrider (Reply 94): That is why I said you should buy up an area and make it into a preserve. Sort of like a hunting theme park. The native wildlife would kill them off in days, if not hours. What is the fun in that?
OK, genius, how we gonna keep the native wildlife out of the preserve?
Put up a signs facing inwards that say that there is no Burberry available beyond this point. Then put up signs facing OUTWARDS that say that there is no North Face or Sean John available beyond this point.
That should keep them in their respective zones! I'm so smart...
DocLightning From United States, joined Nov 2005, 6952 posts, RR: 42 Reply 97, posted (1 year 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1185 times:
Quoting Lowrider (Reply 89): Given their ability to multiply faster than rabbits, I wonder if a bounty could be established?
You'd have to. They can't be good eating. They're either too wiry or too fatty. And all the tobacco and alcohol consumption can't lend a good taste to the meat.
Although, maybe we should put the females in hen houses and make use of the babies. Jonathin Swift's "A Modest Proposal" comes to mind.
Print bumper stickers and put that on all the cars in physician parking spaces? Or is that too juvenile? At least you didn't say sell them to pharmaceutical companies for research, because that might have been over the top. I used to have a particularly dark sense of humor. It has been a struggle to overcome.
Quoting 747438 (Thread starter): Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby
Some of their enlightened ones already do. Much to the pleasure of New Zealand's, Australia's, England's and France's substitutes who get a chance to stretch their legs in the meaningless last game of the group at every single World Cup. Usually ends in a 10-try drubbing.
But they are improving and I cannot support them enough in their endeavour to join the elite of mankind.
Quoting 747438 (Thread starter): There is only one kind of proper football; you (mistakenly) call it soccer.
Quoting 747438 (Thread starter):
God Save the Queen!
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That's funny. Every time I've thrown that toast out in a pub in England (in the thickest Michigan accent I can muster) it always gets a lackluster response.
Not surprised with the amount of taxpayers money she and her family get through.....
And now shes whining she does not have enough money.
Im not surprised!
I think it was Prince Andrew who was hiring out a private jet to take him from London to Scotland for a round of golf and back to London a couple of hours later.
Considering the miniumum wage over here is around £11,800 a year(I think) I dont think you and your family are doing too badly,Maaaam.
"I stand Corrected" said the man in the Orthopedic shoe's.
Brilondon From Canada, joined Aug 2005, 1466 posts, RR: 0 Reply 104, posted (1 year 2 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 1043 times:
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Quoting HowSwedeitis (Reply 3): Please add George Micheal and Boy George to that list as well, alias. On behalf of the United States, I suggest perhaps swapping, oh say, Florida. They can have it.
We really don't want Americas wang but it would be a good place for all the yellow water the Americans call beer.
Quoting Dougloid (Reply 16): Why, they've been inflicting offenses like Leslie Feist, Avril Lavigne and Celine Dion on yr faithful petitioners for years. Don't that count as sonic pollution?
Actually you can have these people for yourself. We exiled them in secret that is why they come to you, as you seem to have the stomach for them especially in Mississippi.
Having low expectations means you won't be disapointed.
Dougloid From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 105, posted (1 year 2 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1013 times:
Quoting Brilondon (Reply 104): Actually you can have these people for yourself. We exiled them in secret that is why they come to you, as you seem to have the stomach for them especially in Mississippi.
Arghhhhhhh! Curses! Foiled once again by Canadian deviousness.
I know! We'll export more SPAM and cheese puffs! When the Canadians are terminally obese they won't be able to fit in their cars and come here to go shopping. A buncha maple syrup guzzling Samoans....hehehe
DocLightning From United States, joined Nov 2005, 6952 posts, RR: 42 Reply 106, posted (1 year 2 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 856 times:
Quoting Dougloid (Reply 105):
I know! We'll export more SPAM and cheese puffs! When the Canadians are terminally obese they won't be able to fit in their cars and come here to go shopping. A buncha maple syrup guzzling Samoans....hehehe
Been to Canada lately? The plan is already working well. It's working well in England, too.