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To: chessplayer

Turns out if there was no US, the British would be speaking German today. So it was a good thing we did get our independence for their sake.


9 posted on 06/05/2012 9:56:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Turns out if there was no US, the British would be speaking German today. So it was a good thing we did get our independence for their sake.

If there was no independent US, the Great War would have been the 1914 War.

17 posted on 06/05/2012 10:16:43 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Gott mit Mitt, Mitt mit uns)
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To: dfwgator

...so things would have come full circle. I believe George III’s native tongue was...German.


19 posted on 06/05/2012 10:19:22 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: dfwgator

and if there were no French, we’d be Brits!!


27 posted on 06/05/2012 10:49:01 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: dfwgator

and if there were no French, we’d be Brits!!


28 posted on 06/05/2012 10:49:13 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: dfwgator

Reminds me of a line from the movie “A Fish Called Wanda” where Kevin Cline says to a very snooty British woman that if it weren’t for the United States, “England would be the smallest province of the Soviet Union.”


30 posted on 06/05/2012 10:52:41 AM PDT by LifePath
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