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    squeak
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    To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty

    Queen Elizabeth II:

    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 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:

    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’).

    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 o f ‘-ize.’

    3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

    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.

    5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything

    more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required

    if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

    6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will

    start driving on the left side 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.

    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.

    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 catsup but with vinegar.

    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 be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so

    that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

    10.

    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).

    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. 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.

    13. You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.

    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).

    15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with

    saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus

    strawberries (with cream) when in season.

    G-d Save the Queen!

    #1143477
    tzippi
    Member

    Will we be allowed to keep our medical and dental insurance?

    #1143478
    squeak
    Participant

    Why would you want to?

    #1143479
    Josh31
    Participant

    “internal revenue agent”. We’ve put a large vat of tar on the fire, and several pillows will need to be canabalized for the cause.

    Chicken or goose???

    #1143483
    teen
    Member

    hahaha 🙂

    #1143484
    an open book
    Participant

    🙂

    #1143485
    moish01
    Member

    haha good one, squeak.

    except for the football part.

    and i think i would have been part of the federalists (is that what they were called or did i just make that up??) during the revolutionary war 😉

    #1143486
    moish01
    Member

    hey the it should have mentioned how to spell “Borough Park.”

    #1143487
    asdfghjkl
    Participant

    squeaky: that was hilarious!!! all hail Queen Lizzy!!!!!!

    #1143488

    This one is definately a true classic – have seen it floating around in several different forms!

    #1143490
    David S.
    Member

    noitallmr you must have some say on this! after all you are from the UK!

    #1143491
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    Happy Fourth of July!

    G*d Bless America!!

    SiDi™

    #1143492
    Wisey
    Participant

    Well Uk doesn’t have an independance day so it must be that they are the ones dependant on the US

    #1143493
    Josh31
    Participant

    One Piers Morgan has been questioning one of the first 10 Amendments.

    Here is the response:

    The Bill of Rights is our Crown Jewels.

    Anyone tampering with them will be subject to Tar and Feathering!!!

    #1143494

    1. What is a doughnut? And how do you pronounce that: k?fn?t?

    …also, please explain how it is more efficient to use more letters.

    2. iz this a mor effishent form of comm 4 u?

    3. “holiday”? Did you mean “vacation”?

    4 What is “grouse”? I’ve never seen grice before.

    5. The National Peeler Association will probably fight the requirement for that permit.

    6. What is “roundabout”?

    … also, what is “metric system”?

    7. Since you are pricing gas to the dollar I assume we will be continuing to use the less stable dollar rather than the British Sterling?

    8. What is “catsup”?

    9. Should we start calling beer “beeur”?

    10.

    11. Research indicates that the name “soccer” began in England.

    12. No baseball is no problem. No one watches it anyway anymore.

    13. Only if you tell us the secret to not laughing at court dress.

    14. “Monies”? munnies? monnies? mounies? I’m not getting it.

    15. Can the American version of tea be replaced with coffee?

    #1143495
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Iff itt woulhd bee moore efficiennt too aadd lletters, woulhdnn’tt yoou do itt moore?

    #1143496
    I. M. Shluffin
    Participant

    I’m moving to Antartica.

    #1143498

    Very funny, with the exception of #4. Therapists are not frivolous and unnecessary; they are lifesavers– literally.

    #1143499
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    Happy Fourth of July!

    G*d Bless America!!

    SiDi™

    #1143500
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Promise me that you will never shoot a grouse.

    #1143501
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    Promise.

    SiDi™

    #1143502
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    Blimey, I’ll be ‘appy to talk wiv’ an accen’ now. Where’s me proper fish an’ chips?

    #1143503
    nfgo3
    Member

    Correction to Item 4: Preferred plural of grouse is “grise.” Secondary plural is “greese.”

    #1143504
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Bump (Trump)

    #1143505
    feivel
    Participant

    What is notable is that seven years ago apparently humorous, frivolous threads were something of an exception.

    Considering that OP felt it prudent to label it as such.

    #1143506
    The Queen
    Participant

    Squeak, great post!

    “In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent

    candidates for President of the USA”

    Remind me, was it that bad 7 years ago? Or did you write this with clairvoyance, for the present ‘Purim shpiel’ election season.

    #1143507
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    16. All dentists will be outlawed, and toothpaste will be substituted for formaldehyde

    No one is allowed to have better teeth than her majesty

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