Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for June 14, 2013

And the best thing about being British is you don’t have to be English.

I take umbrage at that! I have had nearly perfect grammar since elementary school. Also, on a side note Paul Revere cried out “The regulars are coming”, because technically at that point the Americans were all British.

What does a dentist have to do with Paul Revere’s chant that THE BRITISH ARE COMING?

every time I cross a river I take umbrage

Today it would be: One if by Lan, Two if by WiFi

Yeah, this windowpane is great!

So they have yellow coating?

Bruno Zeigerts: You can’t find rhyme nor meter for Prescott or Dawes? After all, at least they avoided capture and completed the mission, which is better than Revere did.

Ewww, yuck and very funny (only cos I’m not … from that strange country!)

Yes – we are too lazy to add the extra letters to colour and flavour and we use s’s instead of c’s in many words, like ‘defense’ (American) versus ‘defence’ (British). I actually like the British differences in spelling. I’m also reminded of the line in the movie Patton, where General Patton is addressing British allies and says that we (Americans and Brits) are ‘two people separated by a common language’.

Good one – made me laugh.

Quite right. I stand corrected. But he sure had a big influence in England! (And the “Colonies”)

specializing in crowns?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

OH THAT IS BRILLIANT!!! :D