The English are Best -- Flanders and Swan
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7 comments:
LMFAO
Love 'em!
There'll always be an England as long as this humour is around. hope you will find this story interesting,it was sent to me by a friend who is an English migrant
I am led to believe,an incident occurred in a supermarket recently, when the following was witnessed:
A Muslim woman dressed in a Burkha (A black gown & face mask) was standing with her shopping in a queue at the checkout.
When it was her turn to be served, and as she reached the cashier, She made a loud remark about the Australian Flag lapel pin, which the
Female cashier was wearing on her blouse.
The cashier reached up and touched the pin and said, 'Yes, I always wear it proudly. My son serves abroad with the forces and I wear it for
Him.
The Muslim woman then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing and killing her countrymen explaining that she was Iraqi.
At that point, an elderly Gentleman standing in the queue stepped forward, and interrupted with a calm and gentle voice, and said to the
Iraqi woman:
'Excuse me, but hundreds of thousands of Australian men and women, just like this ladies son have fought and sacrificed their lives so that
people just like YOU can stand here, in Australia, which is MY country and allow you to blatantly accuse an innocent check-out cashier of bombing YOUR
Countrymen.
'It is my belief that if you were allowed to be as outspoken as that in Iraq, which you claim to be YOUR country, then we wouldn't need to be
Fighting there today'. .
'However - now that you have learned how to speak out and criticise the Australian people who have afforded you the protection
Of MY country, I will gladly pay the cost of a ticket to help you pay your way back to Iraq '.
'When you get there, and if you manage to survive for being as outspoken as what you are here in Australia, then you should be able to help
Straighten out the mess which YOUR Iraqi countrymen have got you into in the first place, which appears to be the reason that you have come to MY
Country to avoid.'
Apparently the queue cheered and applauded. ..
Thank you Jayne and Matthias.
By the way Matthias, I'm afraid that story is an urban legend. I've seen slightly different versions for the United States and Great Britain.
Ah, some memories there. Shaddup was actually a number one hit of my boyhood. The whole country went out and bought it. I remember it kept a rather ghoulish new romantic dirge called Vienna by a group called Ultravox (not a comedy act, despite the name) languishing in the number two slot and there was much talk among the smart set of injustice and popular taste going to the dogs and so forth. Ultravox! I ask you! Such innocent days.
It comes as no surprise, but is nonetheless heartening to see that you, too, are a friend of Messrs Flanders and Swann! I'm also rather fond of their song 'Madiera, M'dear', ("the evils gin does can be hard to assess/besides it's inclined to affect me prowess"); but one can't go past the line "the Germans are... German". Nothing more need be said!
Venerable Bede: I was actually unaware of Shaddup's popularity in the Mother Country. I only knew that it was rather popular in Australia - and I remember seeing it on the music shows like Countdown when I was growing up. The fact that it also thwarted the evil ambitions of Midge Ure and Ultravox is an added bonus.
Nottlesby: I should have realised you would be familiar with the ouevre of Flanners & Swann. Thank you for mentioning ‘Madiera, M’dear. I hadn't heard that particular song before, so I went searching on Youtube for it - a most excellent find indeed.
However my first acquaintance with Flanders and Swann was in my sallow youth in Music class in a small primary school in rural Queensland. It was there I first encountered ‘Mud, Mud Glorious Mud'.
We had a curious music book in that class because I also remember learning to play ‘My Canary has Circles under His Eyes' on the recorder.
LOL! Shaddup You Face was on jukeboxes in ALL the good bars! We used to play the heck out of that. :)
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