Memo to the United States of America

To the citizens of the United States of America:



In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for
President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give
notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.

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, Gordon Brown, will appoint a governor
For America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.

A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether
any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown Colony, the
following rules are introduced with immediate effect:


You should look up \"revocation\" in the Oxford English
Dictionary.



1. 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 'favour'
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').


3. 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 US English. We will let Microsoft know
on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take
account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize. You
will re-learn your original national anthem, God Save The Queen.


4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.


5. 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 adult enough to be independent.


Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult
enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a
therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.


6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry
anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be
required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.


7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this
is for your own good. When we show you European, or better Japanease cars, you will
understand what we mean.


8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you
will start driving on the left 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.


9. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have
been calling gasoline) -- roughly $10 per US gallon. Get used to it.


10. 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.


11. 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. South African beer is also acceptable as
they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it
can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth
- see what it did for them.


12. 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 McDowell attempt
English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin
to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.


13. You will cease playing American football. There is only one
kind of proper football; you call it soccer. 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).
Don't try Rugby -- the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like
they regularly thrash us.


14. 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 ofAmerica. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that
there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You
will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to
take the sting out of their deliveries.


15. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.


16. An official from Her Majesty's Inland Revenue (i.e., tax
collector) will be with you shortly to ensure the collection of all
monies due (backdated to 1776). Until these are paid, there will be no
representative government in the USA , in line with the policy: \"No
representation without taxation\".


17. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 PM with proper cups and
saucers (never mugs), and with high quality biscuits (cookies) and
cakes; strawberries in season.


18. Some tea has gone missing -- and we expect it back. We'll be
Searching Boston first.


God save the Queen.

Hehe very good.

Ironically though Aluminium was originally called 'Alumium' so we're both technically wrong.

haha nice one

How very sadly true.........makes you think though.........The most powerfull nation the world has ever seen is also the most fragile in it's social infra-structure.........sobering.....