To the Citizens of the United States of
America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Greetings.
In light of your immediate failure to financially manage
yourselves and also in recent years your tendency to elect
incompetent Presidents of the USA and therefore not able 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, 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 sometime 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').
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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. Although 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 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.
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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 catsup 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. New Zealand beer is also
acceptable, as New Zealand is 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.
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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 dialogue 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 are only two
kinds of proper football; one you call soccer, and rugby (dominated by
the New Zealanders). 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. 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 Australians (wWorld dominators)
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 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, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and
cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
God Save the Queen!
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Charu wrote:
It is revealing that a post on an ex British
colony, USA, on a downward slide is published along with another downturned ex
British colony, India and a humorous, anonymous and certainly bogus letter of
intent from her Majesty, the Queen of England, to take back one and not the
other are all posted on one page!
BTW, I have my own items to add to that list should USA cede to England!
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My reply:
Charu, that is an uncanny and brilliant observation you have
made: USA, a former British fiefdom, which became the wealthiest and the most
powerful democratic country in the world; and the other, India, also the most
favourite of all British colonies worldwide, the so-called Jewel in the Crown
of the British Empire, which also remained democratic, and went on to become
the world’s most populous country (not China, which is three times the size of
India, and therefore its population by area is one-third that of India); for
England, the notion of regaining India is not only remote but unthinkable.
Bravo, Charu.
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1 comment:
Bhai,
It is revealing that a post on an ex British colony, USA, on a downward slide is published along with another downturned ex British colony, India and a humorous, anonymous and certainly bogus letter of intent from her Majesty, the Queen of England, to take back one and not the other are all posted on one page!
BTW, I have my own items to add to that list should USA cede to England!
charu
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