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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsQueen Elizabeth has revoked our independence!
In a fit of anger her majesty Queen Elizabeth II issued the following letter to the citizens of United States of America
To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II:
In light of your failure to financially manage yourselves and inability to effectively govern yourselves responsibly, 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 William Donald Cameron, will appoint a Governor for the former United States of 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 - You will learn that the suffix burgh is pronounced burra; you may elect to spell Pittsburgh as Pittsberg if you find you simply cant cope with correct pronunciation. Then look up aluminum and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2 - The letter U will be reinstated in words such as colour, favour and neighbour. Likewise, you will learn to spell doughnut without skipping half the letters.
More: http://itzhakts.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/revocation-of-independence/
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Queen Elizabeth has revoked our independence! (Original Post)
frogmarch
Oct 2013
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Xyzse
(8,217 posts)1. I remember this.
This was made by John Cleese.
It was funny as heck.
Goalie49009
(748 posts)2. LOL nice.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)3. We'll have to put her face on our coins, too
And replace "In God We Trust" with "Fid. Def." ("Defender of the Faith"
HipChick
(25,485 posts)4. She wouldn't want you lot back..
at least not till you become somewhat profitable again,and carry less debt..
sarge43
(28,941 posts)5. My court spy tells me that when the Privy Counsel proposed this,
HM answered, "Bloody hell no! I'm too old for that shit."