“Last week, one of my patients said to me, ‘Nurse Peggy, if only I had conducted my life in a respectable and dignified manner, like those classy British people on that Downton Abbey program, I might not be on this waiting list, desperate for a new liver!'”
“I took one look at him and I said, ‘Honey, if you think those snaggletoothed people across the sea are all about tea, crumpets, and fancy accents that’ll make someone like Madonna believe she’s a well-bred noblewoman, then you need to look at these.’ Then I showed him some photos of typical British folk taken by the Daily Mail over the holidays.”
Bangers & Mash!
Toad-in-the-Hole!
![Cheerios, [on the pavement] old chap!](https://pophazmat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/puke-brit.jpg)
Cheerios, [on the pavement] old chap!
“So, whenever Maggie Dench or Judi Smith or whomever the hell they are turn-on that British charm and make you American slobs feel all coarse & inferior this holiday season, just take a look at the Daily Mail and thank Paul Revere’s lathered horse that you are not this very minute passed-out on Carnaby Street in a disgraceful puddle of your own vomit and existential regret. Happy Holidays, everyone! From my ward to yours. Drink responsibly. And stay away from the British.”
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“AHEM! I would like to assert with AWL possible expedience and assorted what-not, that I, as an Englishwoman with significant ties to the 48th Earl of FrothenWhistle, and membership in the most Honorable House of Lord SturdyThatches, believe the above photo-GRAWWPHS do not represent the rank-and-file of British society as I have come to know and shamelessly assimilate it! Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’ll be taking tea with the Queen. Come, darling. We musn’t keep Elton waiting. Tallyme! Er … tallyho!”
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*giggles* see that you posted the harmless pictures, but let us not forget, that Shakespeares children have a looooooong tradition in heavy celebration, one does not learn to be such an embarrassment overnight, you see, and that accounts for the charme of this cuuuuute accent -stiff upper lip.
Meet you under the mistletoe after some port, eggnog and hot whiskey toddy – hicks. Now where ish je shider hot tod………..Well Hello Mr Toad, How do you do? Care for some gingerbread coffee? Itsh tradishion, after *hicks* all!
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