Dear Americans.

[Blak Smyth]

Makes me think of Monty Python, typical English "humour"

[Subvet642]

An American Sailor and a British Tar were in a bar talking about their various Naval traditions. The conversation got around to the stripes of white piping on their dress blue uniforms. The British Tar asks: "Why do American Sailors have three stripes of piping when we only have two?" The Yank says: "See that first one?, that's for the time we beat your @ss in the Revolution, the second is for the time we beat your @ss in the War of 1812." Still puzzled, the Tar asks again: "Okay, but why the third?" The Yank says: "That's because we can beat your @ss any time we want!"

[Subvet642]

During the war of 1812, the British Frigate captains, to explain their losses, were fond of claiming that American Frigates were too big, and weren't really Frigates, but Ships of the Line. This poem appeared in a British newspaper of the day:

War in Disguise; or
An apology for His Majesty’s Navy


One Stephens, a lawyer, and once a reporter,
Of war and of taxes a gallant supporter,
In some way or other to Wilberforce kin
And a member, like him, of a borough brought in,
Who a master in Chancery since had been made,
Wrote a pamphlet to show that Jonathan’s trade
Was a “War in Disguise”; which, though strange at first sight,
Events have since proved may have been but too right;
For when Carden the ship of the Yankee Decatur
Attacked, with doubting to take her or beat her,
A Frigate she seemed to his glass and his eyes;
But when taken himself, how great his surprise
To find her a seventy-four in disguise!


U.S.S. Constitution vs. H.M.S. Guerriere

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Blak Smyth

Makes me think of Monty Python, typical English "humour"

[T.G]

Originally Posted by Blak Smyth

Makes me think of Monty Python, typical English "humour"

Monty Python was actually funny though.