Posted on 08/02/2025 8:59:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
My best friend’s father growing up served in Patton’s Third Army. When they encountered their British brothers-in-arms, they would be greeted with “’ey, Yank, got ah fag?” The Brits knew what they were saying, they just liked to tweak the Yanks, who actually were replete with tobacco. I worked with a guy who had previously worked for a U.S. company that had a plant in Britain. The secretary would call his home in the U.S. and tell his wife to “Have Joe knock me up when he’s over here.”, meaning in British “visit me”, but she knew what it meant in American.
Allan Sherman - Pop Hates The Beatles
My daughter needs a new phonograph
She wore out all the needles
Besides, I broke the old one in half
I hate the Beatles
She says they have a Liverpool beat
She says they used to play there
Four nice kids from offa the street
Why didn’t they stay there?
What is all the screaming about?
Fainting and swooning
Sounds to me like their guitars
Could use a little tuning
The boys are from the British Empire
The British think they’re keen
If that is what the British desire
God Save The Queen
No daughter of mine can push me around
In my home I’m the master
But when the British come into town
Gad, what a disaster
Little girls in sneakers and jeans
Destroyed the territory
‘Twas like some of the gorier scenes
From West Side Story
Of course my daughter had to go there
The tickets are cheap, she hollers
I was able to pick up a pair
For 47 dollars
When the Beatles come on the stage
They scream and shriek and cheer them
Now I know why they’re such a rage
It’s impossible to hear them
Ringo is the one with the drum
The others all play with him
It shows you what a boy can become
Without a sense of rhythm
There’s Beatle books and T-shirts and rings
And one thing and another
To buy my daughter all of these things
I had to sell her brother
Back in 1776
We fought the British then, folks
Parents of America
It’s time to do it again, folks
When they come back, here’s how we’ll begin
We’ll throw ‘em in Boston Harbor
But please, before we toss ‘em all in
Let’s take ‘em to a barber!
The old CRT tubes emitted strong radiation at the "line scan" frequency. In the U.S. NTSC system, with 525 lines per frame and 60 frames a second it was 525 x 60 = 31,500 Hz. For the British PAL is was 625 lines per frame times 25 frames per second for 15,625 Hz.
Didn’t grow up in the (U.K.) always wanted to visit it for a summer wished I had a chance to but didn’t however have friends from there sounds like a great place.
Thanks
That was the LSD.
When I first visited England in the mid-60s, I was shocked at how primitive many conditions still were, compared to the U.S. This article is a reminder. One of our hosts in a northern industrial city still had an outhouse in the narrow alley behind their rowhouse.
Then again, the U.S. hadn’t had two world wars on or land, as England had done twenty years prior.
WWI and WWII destroyed Britain, they didn’t win squat. Lost their Empire and most of their manufacturing base. Lost so much manpower they had to import labor from the colonies.
Germany (twice) and Japan (once) got crushed much harder in every way than Britain. World War I had an enormous demoralizing effect on Britain, especially on the upper classes, who died at a much higher rate. World War II was similar in that relatively speaking, it had a much greater effect on British national pride and self-image than on Japan or Germany’s. It was humiliating for Britain to see itself playing second fiddle to America, a country almost entirely without imperial ambition, and they deeply resented it.
What they mainly lost was not just fighting men, but men with fight. It is tragic.
What they mainly lost was not just fighting men, but men with fight. It is tragic.
This too. Especially when ‘Colonialism Guilt’ took hold.
This Scotsman is still bitter about toilet paper 60 years ago?
Are there fewer commercials?
George Harrison grew up with a privy in the back his parents’ house.
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