Fourth Of July 2018

[Howard Brown]

Happy 4th of July folks ! # 242

Hopefully, the godawful humidity which has been socking it to the East will go disappear by tomorrow....

[Robert Linford]

Congratulations to the Americans on their independence. We hope to get ours soon.

[Joe Chetcuti]

Let me know when you get your independence, Robert. That way I can teach you how to barbecue hotdogs and set off firecrackers without lighting your backyard on fire.

Yup, I will make you an old pro at these Independence Day ceremonies before you know it.

[Robert Linford]

The barbecue sounds good, Joe, but I'm a bit old for fireworks or for Guys (a Guy is a figure wearing an old coat and a pair of shabby trousers packed with newspapers).


If How lived over here he'd have to go into hiding every November 5th.

[Gary Barnett]

The barbecue sounds good, Joe, but I'm a bit old for fireworks or for Guys (a Guy is a figure wearing an old coat and a pair of shabby trousers packed with newspapers).


If How lived over here he'd have to go into hiding every November 5th.

Remember, remember, each fifth of November,
That scrapple is edible, not.
I see no reason why jellied eel treason
Should ever be forgot.

[Howard Brown]

If How lived over here he'd have to go into hiding every November 5th.


No fawkin' way, big guy.

[Joe Chetcuti]

Of course Robert, you cannot receive your independence without paying a price. After all, our American ancestors paid the price by spending a winter in Valley Forge.

In all fairness, next January you should travel up north to Berwick-upon-Tweed and pitch up a tent on the grass lawn there. Spend an entire night on the snowy ground, and that should be sufficient enough to earn your independence!! I will house-sit at your place while you're up there. Then when you get home, I will have a good hot bowl of Top Ramen waiting for you. Nothing but the best for our new independent man.

[Howard Brown]

Of course Robert, you cannot receive your independence without paying a price. After all, our American ancestors paid the price by spending a winter in Valley Forge.

....and without shoes or scrapple. Lets see you get outta that jam, bucko.

[Lynn Cates]

same

Hello Howard. The same, I am sure.


Cheers.
LC

[Lynn Cates]

soon

Hello Robert. Hang in there. It won't be long now.


Cheers.
LC

[Adam Went]

Happy 4th of July, American friends!

Robert, you may soon have your European independence, but you'll never be free of us colonials, mwahahaha!

Cheers,
Adam.

[Robert Linford]

Hi everyone. I guess no one knows what they would do when they are put to the test at the moment of truth. But I swear that I would eat scrapple if it would get us out of the EU.

[Sam Flynn]

I swear that I would eat scrapple if it would get us out of the EU.

That might be all we can afford to eat after we leave, in certain parts of the UK at least:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...outside-london

[Robert Linford]

I know, I know, Gareth. Osborne's punishment budget....Cameron's World War Three....everyone starving....I'm shaking in my shoes.

[Sam Flynn]

I know, I know, Gareth. Osborne's punishment budget....Cameron's World War Three....everyone starving....I'm shaking in my shoes.

Osborne's punishment budget morphed into the BoE pumping tens (hundreds?) of billions of pounds of our money into the economy to stabilise the pound, and it was Boris Johnson who referred to "World War Three", not Cameron.

I don't think anything was said about starving. There were predictions that the cost of living, including food, would rise after we left the European trading bloc, owing to us having to pay additional tariffs on imports, etc. Makes intuitive sense to me, but we'll have to see what happens.