Benny Hill--**** Yeah!
Maggie Thatcher--**** Yeah!
James Bond--**** Yeah!
Dead parrots pining for the fjords--**** Yeah!
Longbows--**** Yeah!
Cheerfully adopting words from other languages, so English bears the postmark of every place we've ever visited--**** Yeah!
Fish and chips---**** Yeah!
Churchill--**** Yeah!
Well, you get the idea. Though longbows--at least those really great ones at Agincourt--were Welch, and the best James Bond was played by a Scotsman. I figure the whole UK counts.I told Uncle Pookie about this, and happened to mention "weird hats".
Uncle Pookie: We need to make one for the Vatican.
Me: [pause]
U.P.: **** Yeah! Bulletproof Pope-mobile! **** Yeah! Moral authority over billions of people! **** Yeah! Tall hats! **** Yeah!...Apostolic succession! **** Yeah!
2 comments:
Dear Auntie Suzanne;
I appreciate your love of the British as I am of British descent. For that matter,I bark in an English accent, too.
Two Paws Up!
Guinness, I think you're the cutest poster ever! And I'm of at least partial British descent myself.
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