Ahh!! What I always admired about the Brits when I was living there.
Their warm, genial demeanor!! Now be a good chap, Guy.... Go soak
your head. There's the lad!
Cheers!!
Jim - 68 Midget in Dodge City
On 4/28/06, Guy R Day <grday@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Buster Evans wrote:
>
> <snip> Come now, Guy, surely you jest <snip>
> Humour? Defined as - 'the ability to see that something is funny, or the
> enjoyment of things that are funny'. In America???????
>
>
> <snip> Even in his "official" or authorized biographies, it can be found
> that Winnie" had been a nickname since childhood. <snip>
> When it was 'Winston' his surname was sure to follow. You may have wanted
> leaders of his stature but you didn't get, you haven't got and it is doubtful
> you ever will have one of his stature. He was British and a damned good
> xenophobe. Please adopt Tony Blair, he far more appealing to you ...
>
> Sir Winston Churchill or 'Winnie' was a great leader of his time but he was
> born 131 years ago. He died 48 years ago. I appreciate this is only a couple
> of days after your country's history began, but it is time to move on.
>
> The first and second world wars are over. Stop trying to change history and
> revive them. Do it to your great victories in Korea, Vietnam and in Operation
> Eagle Claw.
>
> I believe that Bugs Bunny is the most revered American in England.
>
> A reply is not needed.
>
>
> Guy R Day
> A-H Sprite Mk IV
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: b-evans@earthlink.net
> To: Guy R Day
> Cc: Spridgets@autox.team.net ; midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com ;
> bugeye@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:43 AM
> Subject: Re: My "annus horribilis"
>
>
> Guy R Day wrote:
>
> It may be a shock but Sir Winston Churchill is dead. (and nobody
> called him Winston)
>
> Come now, Guy, surely you jest. "Winston's back," was the message that
> flashed through the Home Fleet when during the "Phoney War" early in World War
> II, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Browse through the morgues
> of Fleet Street newspapers in the darkest days, and the reader will find him
> repeatedly referred to in headlines as "Winston", if not the fond diminutive
> of "Winnie". Whether I am among family in England as they reminisce about
> those days, or I am listening to the old boys in Beconsfield Clubs, I hear him
> constantly referred to as "Winston" or "Winnie". Even in his "official" or
> authorized biographies, it can be found that Winnie" had been a nickname since
> childhood.
>
> Many in England are surprised that in America he is the most revered
> Englishman of all time. Not surprising, however, considering he was "one of
> us"!
>
> Buster Evans
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