Reply to: St George's Day

[Uncle Albert]

How to live like an Englishman (according to Boswell)

[SueEllen]

In other words ..... horrible

Should have gone for the Turkish option.

[MyUserName]

It's an English restaurant run by local English people which serves classic English dishes made from ingredients sourced from local English farmers

In other words ..... horrible

[SueEllen]

St George was Turkish.

And he is the saint of a lot of countries.

[d000hg]

Was it cooked by a fine English chef & served by a fine English wench or some Eastern Europeans?

It's an English restaurant run by local English people which serves classic English dishes made from ingredients sourced from local English farmers

[Troll]

We celebrated by going for English steak at an English restaurant with a fine local English ale, after completing purchase of our English house

Was it cooked by a fine English chef & served by a fine English wench or some Eastern Europeans?

[d000hg]

We celebrated by going for English steak at an English restaurant with a fine local English ale, after completing purchase of our English house

[darmstadt]

And a new superhero is born today:

[OwlHoot]

Thus proving that it's always the mediocre who take most comfort in jingoism.

Just a bit of harmless fun by Flanders and Swann, who you may recall also wrote Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud

[amcdonald]

you forgot xenophobia

Fear of stomach ripping face huggers ?

[vetran]

wow. I learned something today.

I suppose if one wanted to avoid saying 'by Mohammed'

it would be 'we must have a holy war by Mingo'

he's a very naughty boy

[hyperD]

wow. I learned something today.

I suppose if one wanted to avoid saying 'by Mohammed'

it would be 'we must have a holy war by Mingo'

[EternalOptimist]

"The phrase "by Jingo" was a long-established minced oath, used to avoid saying "by Jesus"."

wow. I learned something today.

I suppose if one wanted to avoid saying 'by Mohammed'

it would be 'we must have a holy war by Mingo'

[vetran]

"The phrase "by Jingo" was a long-established minced oath, used to avoid saying "by Jesus"."

[EternalOptimist]

what is a jingo anyway ?


does anyone have a clue what a flipping jingo even is ??