Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman View Post
Well thats because you get confused with history , back in the early 1900s the colonials had this kinda revolution where they did a pre-emptive strike against the evil King George V before he gained the throne as a protest about the invention of tea bags , they rebeled against the tyranny of the German royals . The introduction of the tea bag had given rise to doubts about the percolative effects of the bag on the tea which might weaken the resolve of the american colonial upstarts in the morning withtheir cuppa . They bravely rallied round the table cloth and said no percolation without representation and tipped the offending tea into Boston harbour , unfortunately after they won their heroic struggle their new leaders under the malignant influence of the vested interests of the bevarage industry sold out the revolution and convinced the people to have coffee instead , which of course has that evil percolation thing with it .
No, no, no, old chap. George V was our object of affection.

You see, he was a small, even tiny person, as was his Prime Minister, Lloyd George. It turned out that De Valera, who was trying to arrange a meeting between the three, was also quite small of stature.

So we sent Michael Collins over, who was not known as "The Big Fella" for nothing, and Ireland won her independence.