Re: Why USA will rejoin the British Empire
It's very old - at the very least back to 2000 (circulated after President Bush's election) and I'm sure I saw a variant a long time before that.
There's an American reply too, and I've seen a formal response as written by the French (re-asserting sovereignty over England because they let a Welshman onto the throne). I'll see if I can find the latter, which is guaranteed to wind up the English.
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Re: Why USA will rejoin the British Empire
It can't be from 2000, since it mentions Gordon Brown, who assumed office in 2007.Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
Let's hear it.There's an American reply too, and I've seen a formal response as written by the French (re-asserting sovereignty over England because they let a Welshman onto the throne). I'll see if I can find the latter, which is guaranteed to wind up the English.
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Re: Why USA will rejoin the British Empire
That's why he said variant.It's been around for a while.
This is the clue, it's from Bush 43, either v1.0 or v2.0.
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Are you assuming Obama is a competent president? What do you base your claim upon?
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Re: Why USA will rejoin the British Empire
10. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
Oh and looks like point 10 needs not to be implemented, as US car industry is already collapsing. I'm not happy with it though, as some of my favourite models are made there.
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It's true, it's from nearly a decade ago, just after shrub was elected the first time. As for the French taking over the UK. Please do. You could start with taking Brown back to Paris in chains. He'd look great being paraded down the champs elesus.
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It doesn't matter if I think that or not. I seriously doubt that "John Cleese" would start a letter with those words after the election of a Democrat as our President. The letter is being re-used, with slight alterations to make it more modern.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
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Re: Why USA will rejoin the British Empire
It's very old - at the very least back to 2000 (circulated after President Bush's election) and I'm sure I saw a variant a long time before that.
There's an American reply too, and I've seen a formal response as written by the French (re-asserting sovereignty over England because they let a Welshman onto the throne). I'll see if I can find the latter, which is guaranteed to wind up the English.
awesome, please do so. lol.
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Re: Why USA will rejoin the British Empire
Snopes investigation traces it back to Alan Baxter in an internal newsgroup in November 2000, which was later expanded. The first publicly accessible version was posted to sci.military.naval by Peter Rieden on 15th November 2000.
Hmm, Snopes wasn't as thorough as usual on this one. Posted at the same time as Rieden's version, within the same thread, is a 4 item version by TJ, meaning they must have taken that from somewhere (probably Baxter's original).
Re: Why USA will rejoin the British Empire
Now it's starting to come back to me. It originated from the Florida fiasco in the 2000 elections.
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The response is obviously an English product. Under the guise of taking stabs at Britain, it confirms the British in their view of the world. Very funny though.I've seen a formal response as written by the French
guaranteed to wind up the English.
Speaking of winding up, let's have a go at it:
17 - We know that English history books describe the Hundred Years War as a string of consecutive, devastating victories over the French. Which was so tedious to the enterprising English national character that they decided one day to pack up and go fight elsewhere in search of real challenges.
In reality, you suffered devastating defeat. To a peasant woman. After which England never dared to challenge 'the continent' again.
18 - Instead, English troops were from then on send all over the world in search of peaceful, rock-and-stick armed natives against which the English could pretend to be phenomenally great soldiers.
19 - If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. If French-speaking, Catholic Frenchmen, from France, under the leadership of a man listening to the name Guillaume le Bâtard, consider themselves French and pay hommage to the King of France, they are French. No matter how much it hurts English pride that it took a mere handful of Frenchmen from the duchy of Normandie only two weeks to subdue the whole of England. If the Normans are 'Vikings', then the English are Germans and Barack Obama is Irish.
20 - The Swiss Celts, the Italians, the Germans, the Norwegians, the Danes, the French - pretty much everyone - has at one point or another conquered Britian.
An invasion of Britain having thus come to be considered as challenging a conquest as 'easy Émilie' from the rue de Paradis, nobody has bothered invasion anymore for fear of being thought gay.
21 - France had a reformation over the philosophical debate over the nature of free will, praedestination, and divine providence. England had a reformation to make it possible for a man to fornicate with eight women.
21 - Napoleon posed a huge threat to the existing order of Europe. Not even the combined armies of Prussians, Russians, Spanish, Italians, Austrians could stop him. That is, until the one realm Napoleon could never conquer joined up with the continental allies and defeated him in a closely contested battle, after which he was send into exile. Honour to whom honour is due: the gods of the Russian winter are undefeatable.
Oh, and Napoleon later briefly returned from exile for three months. Marching a ragtag, untrained army of teenagers and crippled veterans north, he was quickly stopped at the insignificant battle of Waterloo and returned into exile.
22 - Wellington was a military genius, second only to Napoleon! Think about it, how many generals can make it their distinct goal to avoid open battle at all costs? And then manage to succeed in this despite the whole of Europe being one big battlefield for a quarter of a century? It is amazing to think how he consistently managed to find the exact few spots were he was safe from the French troops.
23 - French and British imperialism both set about to conquer the world. albeit in a very different manner. France send ideas and freedom, Britain shipped its undesirables abroad.
As a consequence, the French Code Civil rules Latin America, French liberty and equality rules in north America, French language invigorates Africa, French human rights and democracy are spread in the EU.
Whereas the entire British imperial legacy consists of a few Britons toasting under the Australian sun or freezing in the Canadian plain.
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i'm fairly sure their is evidence that demonstrates that ex-colonies governed by British Common Law have had better outcomes than ex-colonies governed by French Roman Law.
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Marvelous Louis!
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