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ATAG_Snapper
Nov-18-2012, 17:22
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Your British Commonwealth ATAG Friends
To: Our American ATAG Friends
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 12:46:17 PM
Subject: FW: A Message from the Queen


A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN

To the citizens of the United States of America
from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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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:


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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.

However, 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.

At the same time, you will go metric 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 ketchup 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 hereafter 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.

However, 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 all 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.

Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups,
with saucers, never mugs; with high quality biscuits (Figgy Duffs)
and cakes, plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.

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God Save the Queen!


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PS: For those of you without humour (not "humor"): relax! This is a JOKE! :PP

Wolf
Nov-18-2012, 17:41
+ 250,000,000.01

I have voted above on behalf of the Americans that can’t read.

I am a bit disappointed that the queen did not make reference to Monty Python somewhere...

:salute:

ATAG_Colander
Nov-18-2012, 17:43
Hahahahahahahaha lol :)

Dutch
Nov-18-2012, 19:27
Just a couple of observations;

a) David Cameron is a tosser.

b) There is no such thing as 'catsup' in the vocabulary of Great Britain or the United Kingdom. It is spelled 'Ketchup'.

This post will be added to after I've been for a piss.

:)

Ahem.

c) There is no desire whatsoever within the confines of this noble realm to adopt any sort of simplistic method of calculation such as 'metrication'. You are mis-informed. There are 12 pennies in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound, however one pound and one shilling is referred to as a 'Guinea'. This method of monetary calculation educates all children in mathematical calculations of differing bases, thus enabling the British people in general to con the shit out of the rest of the world on the international money markets. Given recent economic debacles on the part of the USA, it is plain to anyone of sound mind that a more complex method of calculation is essential in order to re-establish the dominance of financial institutions and avoid media condemnation such has been all too prevalent in recent months.

d) God Save The Queen!

e) This list is not exhaustive, and the author reserves the right to amend this post as necessary, however the bulk of the content of the initial post is well received with some gratification.

I thank you.

:D

P.S. My favourite bit - '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'.

Ya bloody big poofs ya. :D


Do you know, it's a funny thing, but in England, when the boys are playing Football and Rugby Football, both of which involve feet, the girl's games are 'Netball' and 'Rounders'. In America, these games are known as 'Basketball' and 'Baseball'.

Funny, innit? :D

ATAG_Snapper
Nov-18-2012, 19:34
Ketchup has been corrected. Incidentally, that's how we spell it in Canuckland as well.

ATAG_JTDawg
Nov-18-2012, 21:27
roflmao

Doc
Nov-18-2012, 23:25
roflmao

Wolf
Nov-19-2012, 06:57
As an Aussie I take great pleasure in taking the piss out of every other nation in the world and not giving a crap what you think of Australia.

So with that in mind..... Have any Americans responded to this yet or are they

A) ordering a thesaurus online from amazon.uk and trying to figure out the conversion rates for shipping

B) trying to find on a map where the queen lives to go blow the shit out of her with some wicked ass drones....love those babies... Need one to hover over my car on the way yo work to take out slow ass drivers.

C) ...... Hang on someone at the door dressed in black with black sunnies. Will be right back.


:recon: roflmao roflmao

ATAG_Snapper
Nov-19-2012, 07:05
Nope, we're OK Wolf.....they're still laughing. Phew! It's only when they stop laughing that we'd better take notice. :)

ATAG_Septic
Nov-19-2012, 07:36
Steady on Chaps!

It appears the colonials are making a decent hash of things over there, generally, and whilst I'm certain they'd be welcomed back into the Commonwealth should they need some support in future I believe some humility is in order here and I'd like to apologise profusely about burning down the White House, it won't happen again.

Septic.

ChiefRedCloud
Nov-19-2012, 10:12
PS: For those of you without humour (not "humor"): relax! This is a JOKE! :PP

Pitty ..... I was rather fanceying the idea ...... as a prelude to the Second Revolution you might say .....:thumbsup:

Ohms
Nov-19-2012, 14:37
With all the petitions going around after the election you might get some takers, but Texashire does not sound right.:)

Wolf
Nov-19-2012, 18:03
All US police will have their cars replaced with Fiat panda's :stunned: BAHAHAHAAHA!!!

That would make the show COPS more interesting or maybe not.

Narrator of show:
See how the police close in on the criminals position. They are going to arrest him.
But the criminal has other ideas. He hops on a push bike to make his getaway.

The officers pursue in their panda's but the criminal gets away. ..... BAHAHAHAHA.

ATAG_Colander
Nov-19-2012, 20:05
Good idea but Fiat is Italian so it should be Mini Coopers :)

http://www.automoblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Mini-Cooper-Police.jpg

:)

ChiefRedCloud
Nov-20-2012, 12:11
With all the petitions going around after the election you might get some takers, but Texashire does not sound right.:)

This could ONLY be THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

ATAG_Snapper
Nov-20-2012, 12:32
Gotta LOVE Texas!!! (Ciudad de Juarez across the river -- not so much....)

1172

Doc
Nov-20-2012, 13:36
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_0von_5SRk