Emma 0 #1 July 20, 2001 Quick quiz ought to help us tell...ARE YOU AN AMERICAN? Questionnaire 1. You decide that the relationship with your partner is over. How doyou break the news you are leaving? (a) Leave a tearful note on the table and slip quietly away.(b) Calmly discuss the reasons with your partner for your decision.(c) Attack them with a chair in front of a rabble of cheering pumped-upinbreds on national television. 2. You and your mates decide to have a game of football in the park. Whatdo you need to take? (a) A ball.(b) A ball and 2 coats.(c) A ball, 50 crash helmets, 4 tons of body armour, 20 cheerleaders, amarching sousaphone band with a grand piano on a trolley, and a team oforthopaedic surgeons specialising in spinal injuries. 3. You are driving along a country road when you accidentally run over arabbit. What do you do? (a) Stop and see how badly injured it is, taking it to a vet if it isstill alive.(b) Carry on driving, but hope it is still alive, or if not, that it diedquickly.(c) Strap it across the bonnet of your car and drive home hollering,whooping and throwing empty Budweiser cans out of the window. 4. You wake up in the morning with a stiff neck after sleeping in anawkward position. What do you do? (a) Ignore it. It will probably loosen up as the day progresses.(b) Take a couple of aspirins and get on with things.(c) Take yourself to a prostitute-addicted TV evangelist faithhealer inan ill-fitting wig, who will lay his hands on your head whilstscreaming about the devil in front of an audience of gibbering inbreds. 5. What do you have for breakfast? (a) A bowl of Cornflakes, slice of toast and a mug of tea.(b) Glass of orange juice, croissant and a cup of coffee.(c) A bag of donuts with ice cream, a 32 ounce steak with six eggs sunnyside-up, fifteen pancakes with maple syrup, ten waffles, five corn dogsand a 48 oz diet root beer. 6. You and your partner decide to take the plunge and get married. Whatsort of ceremony do you have? (a) A quiet party with a few friends in a registry office.(b) A church service followed by a traditional reception at a hotel.(c) A minute long mockery at a 24 hour drive-through chapel in Las Vegas,presided over by a transvestite vicar dressed as Elvis. 7. Your 14-year-old son is going through a difficult phase, becomingdisruptive at school and reclusive at home. What do you do? (a) Don't worry. It's just a phase and will pass.(b) Encourage him to get out more, get involved in team sports or join ayouth club.(c) Take him to an armoury and buy him an arsenal of semi- automaticweapons and enough ammunition to slaughter a small town. 8. You fancy a night in watching something funny on TV. What kind ofcomedy do you choose? (a) A sitcom like Fawlty Towers or Father Ted.(b) A sketch show like the Two Ronnies or the Fast show.(c) A thinly disguised morality play set in a massive lounge where theaudience whoop for ten minutes every time an overpaid actor with asuperglued grin on his face makes an entrance to deliver a lightweightwisecrack. 9. Whilst getting ready for bed, you stub your toe on your wife'sdressing table. What do you do? (a) Shout and swear a bit, after all, it did hurt.(b) Make a mental note to move the table so it doesn't happen again.(c) Immediately call a hotshot lawyer with an uptown reputation, and sueyour wife's ass six ways from Sunday. 10. You are responsible for the USA's presidential electoral process. Doyou: (a) Count all votes and declare a winner.(b) Count all votes and declare a winner.(c) Let the press declare who's won before the votes are counted, thencount only the votes which have been handed in by a deadline whilst notchecking if Bud, the hillbilly sheriff of nowheres-ville, has leftseveral thousand votes in the trunk of his Chevy 'by mistake,' thenforce a recount of only some of the votes within just one state andallow only 12 seconds for the recount to take place; then be amazed thatthe recount hasn't finished by the deadline and increase the deadline byanother 3.2 seconds; then ignore all votes and let 4 judges decide theresult, making sure the judges all support the same candidate; then tellother countries how to run their own elections. Answers... If you answered: mostly (a)s & (b)s, then you are anormal well-balanced individual. mostly (c)'s, then......QED Sorry guys, you know I love you all really, and I fully accept that the Brits are all white, fat, spotty, xenophobes (before you point this out to me!) Emma Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #2 July 20, 2001 Quoteand I fully accept that the Brits are all white, fat, spotty, xenophobes Quite the contrary. Most of the British skydiver chicks I have met are quite attractive, party like Vikings, and are very taken by my southern accent.Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zennie 0 #3 July 20, 2001 OMG that's hilarious! ------------Blue Skies!Zennie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Emma 0 #4 July 20, 2001 Thanks Monkey...southern accent, you say? If only I had a magical talking computer [sighs]......BTW, you should see the entries I removed! E Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zennie 0 #5 July 20, 2001 QuoteBTW, you should see the entries I removed! Post em! I don't think anyone here is that thin-skinned (at least they shouldn't be).All good humor has a grain of truth (sometimes more) to it.------------Blue Skies!Zennie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dutchboy 0 #6 July 20, 2001 Better be carefuly, Emma. If you piss us off we might not come and save your puney little island next time there is a world war. The Dutchboyhttp://www.geocities.com/ppolstra Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #7 July 20, 2001 funny how those brits can make fun of us yet we kicked there ass a coule hundred years ago, and then saved there ass a half century ago.but they were pretty damn funny!!!!bring em on, emmaMarcA-38578 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freaksister 0 #8 July 20, 2001 that was fucking HILARIOUS! I laughed right out loud...my neighbours probably heard it!hehethanks, em.sis It isn't brave if you aren't scared... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phastasphuk 0 #9 July 20, 2001 Emma, post the ones you removed...let's see 'em...I just love yankee jokes, cause you never run out of 'em, hehe...chrisHow would you like too stick with meHow much do you love to freefall Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skreamer 1 #10 July 20, 2001 Quoteand then saved there ass a half century ago.Gee, well I suppose the fact that you arrived THREE YEARS too late doesn't really matter... (and South Africa, Australia, Canada, New Zealand declared war WHEN on the nice Nazis again???)Dude, you guys made a profit on WWII which paid for your boom in the 50's, while the rest of the world was rebuilding from absolute rubble. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Monk 0 #11 July 20, 2001 Emma, You suacy brit. Marry Me! God I hate American Women!CiaoMonk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Doasfu 0 #12 July 21, 2001 QuoteGee, well I suppose the fact that you arrived THREE YEARS too late doesn't really matter...Hey, just be thankful Ben Affleck got there as soon as he did!Dan"Oh, you went to a movie this weekend? That's nice. Me? Oh... Actually, me too..." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skreamer 1 #13 July 21, 2001 Quotejust be thankful Ben Affleck got there as soon as he didDude, wasn't it his buddy Private Ryan that saved our asses???? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ClayFowler 0 #14 July 21, 2001 Yes and that makes us smart....doesnt it....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aviatrr 0 #15 July 21, 2001 Quote Gee, well I suppose the fact that you arrived THREE YEARS too late doesn't really matter... Hey, what did you expect? We were driving British cars.. Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aviatrr 0 #16 July 21, 2001 Quote God I hate American Women! That's ok.. American women probably hate you too.. Ah, well.. At least it means there's less competition for us guys that do like american women.. God knows I could use all the advantage I can get.. Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freefallfreak 0 #17 July 21, 2001 Quote We were driving British cars... Yeah, and the Prince of Darkness, Mr. Lucas, was lighting them...FFF Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLFKING 4 #18 July 21, 2001 QuoteGod I hate American Women!So, Monk........when you shot yourself in the foot, did you lose any toes ?That PLF Phool Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zennie 0 #19 July 21, 2001 QuoteDude, you guys made a profit on WWII which paid for your boom in the 50's, while the rest of the world was rebuilding from absolute rubble.I think it was more the US was trying to stay out of it for as long as possible.But it wasn't like we were totally uninvolved. We did ship a heckuva lot of weapons over to Britain in our "civilian" vessels. Worked OK for a while. Dang U-Boats. ------------Blue Skies!Zennie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #20 July 21, 2001 "Dang U-Boats." Gotta love that fine German engineering.MarcA-38578 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zennie 0 #21 July 21, 2001 QuoteGotta love that fine German engineering.Yepper. Drive one now. ------------Blue Skies!Zennie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Emma 0 #22 July 23, 2001 He he eh hahahahaha ha HAAAAAA HAAAAAHAHA HA!!!!!!Nothing like a bit of controversy on this fine forum of ours!Glad to see that apart from making ridiculous and false statements about the war and stuff, everyone has managed to remain quite well-balanced....I knew skydivers weren't like 'other' Americans....Em Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VivaHeadDown 0 #23 July 23, 2001 And it's nice to see a Brit who's humor isn't too dry. Cheers! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BenW 0 #24 July 23, 2001 Hmm,This attack with a chair in front of a pumped-up rabble? Do you think Ester Ranzten would go for this? Or good morning britain?Must say, glad I'm a deathly pale, fat, pimply Brit with no sense of humour..... B. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Emma 0 #25 July 23, 2001 No sense of humour? I heard you jumped a purple pimp suit? Surely that counts for something? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites