Americans celebrate the success of their revolution on July 4th. Britons celebrate the failure of theirs on November 5th. Sure there is something deep and meaningful in there somewhere.
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dr kildare
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yes,the Americans got a constitution giving them freedom,whereas we eventually got the EUSSR.
if only the Catholic revolution had succeeded we'd now be run from Rome instead of Brussels.mmmmm?
Hang on, wasn't there a Revolution a few years later? Replacing the oppressive English monarchy with, er, some possible less repressive Dutch monarch geezers? Or something? (They never taught this at school).
There was an English Invasion in the 60s and Dutch Courage before then. Thought Our Royals were Krauts anyway? Though, Our Man gets his history from Blackadder for the most part.
yeah we got some hardocre protestant nutters- aka oliver cromwell and his band of merry killjoys.that were that shit,they bought charles the second(son of charles the 1st) back..
charles the second,now there was a man who knew how to party.we've had a monarchy ever since,but unfortunately they gave parliament more powers to fuck things up with,.
Charles II from wiki 'Charles was popularly known as the Merrie Monarch, in reference to both the liveliness and hedonism of his court and the general relief at the return to normality after over a decade of rule by Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans. Charles's wife, Catherine of Braganza, bore no children, but Charles acknowledged at least 12 illegitimate children by various mistresses.'
Yeah, but we Americans still speak the English language, eat English muffins, put English on our billiards shots . . . If you ask me the revolution isn't quite over yet.
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yes,the Americans got a constitution giving them freedom,whereas we eventually got the EUSSR.
if only the Catholic revolution had succeeded we'd now be run from Rome instead of Brussels.mmmmm?
The moral: Any excuse for fireworks. A moral which I wholeheartedly support.
Hang on, wasn't there a Revolution a few years later? Replacing the oppressive English monarchy with, er, some possible less repressive Dutch monarch geezers? Or something? (They never taught this at school).
There was an English Invasion in the 60s and Dutch Courage before then. Thought Our Royals were Krauts anyway? Though, Our Man gets his history from Blackadder for the most part.
wasn't there a Revolution a few years later?'
yeah we got some hardocre protestant nutters- aka oliver cromwell and his band of merry killjoys.that were that shit,they bought charles the second(son of charles the 1st) back..
charles the second,now there was a man who knew how to party.we've had a monarchy ever since,but unfortunately they gave parliament more powers to fuck things up with,.
plus ca change
Charles II from wiki
'Charles was popularly known as the Merrie Monarch, in reference to both the liveliness and hedonism of his court and the general relief at the return to normality after over a decade of rule by Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans. Charles's wife, Catherine of Braganza, bore no children, but Charles acknowledged at least 12 illegitimate children by various mistresses.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England#Children
he was a bit of a boy
Yeah, but we Americans still speak the English language, eat English muffins, put English on our billiards shots . . . If you ask me the revolution isn't quite over yet.
Dunno Durf, you chaps have done a pretty good job of massacring the language (tee hee). But God Bless you for your pizza.
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