Thread: Happy Birthday, America!!

Originally Posted by MickR

And they would have been welcome to it too. I reckon they would have taken one look and said...Ya-Ta-Hay or some such thing and buggered off back home...

Whaadya mean ?! thought most of QLD was already owned by Japanese business. Plenty of land to go around here any way

So the Wife and I did the 4th up with lots-o-food today

Breakfast = Buckwheat Pancakes with real Maple syrup

Supper = Barbecued Hotdogs with steamed buns and ALL the fixings, Homemade Potato Salad, and Homemade Coconut Cream Pie for dessert.. I am so freaking stuffed I doubt I can drag my butt off the couch to even look out the window to see fireworks...


Hope everyone else had a good Holiday

Dammit Glen ! Now I'm hungry. Happy 4th to all !

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Whaadya mean ?! thought most of QLD was already owned by Japanese business. Plenty of land to go around here any way

True, but the Americans managed to break the advance during the second world war so they couldn't carry out their plans to attack. If that attack was successful they would have turned us all into slave labour, or sword practice perhaps, but the fact is they didn't make it here, and didn't have a first hand look at all our dust and flies.
Now, years after the war, they arrive as tourists, take one look and say something like "Ya-Ta-Hay", buy up a highrise block of offices, clear orf back to Nihon making sure that they have a full force of Australian slave labour running the show back here to make huge profits for our Japanese masters.

You know about the Brisbane Line I'm sure (I've walked a small section of what was once designated as Brisbane line), How we had planned on just letting the japanese have everything above Brisbane (albeit with every source of water poisened and undrinkable), since all their bombing of Darwin had to mean they would attack from the North. They made us think they really liked that god-forsaken patch of dirt, dust and flies, when really they were after Crow and Cockroach country...Your stomping grounds. They might have liked that a bit better too. But they fooled us into thinking they wanted the worst chunk of this place and we was a willin' to let 'em have it. If they did what we thought they were going to do, they would have taken one look and surrendered I reckon!

Now back to the subject of "Happy Birthday America" I got that line from the movie 'Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man'


Mick

Happy birthday to you Good ole boys !! from down under.
Have a Coors or a Bud or three, I"ll have a Coopers Ale !!!! Bugger the Brisbane Line and the PC crowd!!




Cheers

Heelerau

Happy birthday to all our friends in the colonies.

Originally Posted by welshwizard

Happy birthday to all our friends in the colonies.

I'm reminded of the typical Englishman's 3 complaints about American GIs during WWII:
1. Overpaid
2. Oversexed
3. Over here
I'm further reminded of the typical American GI's response, which included their observations of Englishmen. To wit, that Englishmen were:
1. Underpaid
2. Undersexed
3. Under Eisenhower

Great Quote from the Movie Quigley Down Under

Major Ashley-Pitt (a British Army Officer): In our experience, Americans are uncouth misfits who should be run out of their own barbaric country.
Matthew Quigley: Well, Lieutenant...
Major Ashley-Pitt: Major.
Matthew Quigley: Major. We already run the misfits outta our country. We sent 'em back to England.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Great Quote from the Movie Quigley Down Under

Major Ashley-Pitt (a British Army Officer): In our experience, Americans are uncouth misfits who should be run out of their own barbaric country.
Matthew Quigley: Well, Lieutenant...
Major Ashley-Pitt: Major.
Matthew Quigley: Major. We already run the misfits outta our country. We sent 'em back to England.

Best line in the whole damn movie!

Which one of the four lines mentioned is best? Or due you mean all four lines amount to the best para-phrase(?)?


Mick