Posted on 08/10/2006 7:25:32 AM PDT by Pokey78
Hey! Boris (sort of) rhymes with "divorce us"....
Fifty Ways to Leave This Country
Tune: Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover
"The problem is all inside his head", I say to thee
The answer is easy if you take it logically
There’s no need to “interpret the psychology”
I want to help him in his struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave this country
I say, he’s really a rather laughable old dude.
Furthermore, I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself at the risk of being rude
There must be fifty ways to leave this country
Fifty ways to leave this country
You just slam the door shut, mutt
Go live in Iran, man.
You don't need to be coy, boy
Just listen to me
Hop to it, Boris
Go ahead and divorce us
You want to resign? Fine!
C’est terminé? Nein!
Get to the Departm’nt of State, mate
Or go to a court, sport
You don't need to be coy, boy
Just listen to me
Hop to it, Boris
Go ahead and divorce us
Just drop off the key, see
And get yourself free
Huh. The author never provides a punchline.
Had he never used an American passport he would not have had this problem. The question raised is why are you not using that passport now? Has it been revoked or confiscated for cause? No switcheroos allowed.
hehe....while state is ok with this....the IRS is not so forgiving....I think they wait a minimum of 10 years before they take you off their books when you leave the country. In some instances never.
Where are those Egyptians?
He uses his British passport. Because he is British. Why would he use an American passport when he is a British citizen? He is not culturally nor emotionally American, nor is he bound in honour to America. He is a British man, and in fact is a member of Parliament. He has a tick against his name because of where he was born and this tick is stopping him from being British - in the eyes of American passport authorities. This is the point of his essay.
How will we ever recover from the loss?
You tell me. Why did he use it in the past?
Ahhhh, sorry, I'd didn't take it that way. I took him at his word on what he writes. If he don't like it, fine.
>Johnson cultivates an image as an eccentric, self deprecating, straw-haired fop<
Say it isn't so!!!
My guess. His parents lived in America and he travelled with them on an American passport. The word "cool" in his essay seems to indicate he did this as a teenager, but I may be reading that in. Then he/his parents moved to Britain and he naturalised. Not terribly sinister, if so.
There are almost certainly excellent biographical notes about Mr Johnson on the Internet - for anyone who wants to explore this storm-in-a-teacup further
The sorting out isn't the problem. The whinging about it in the press is. If a Tory can't see the need for examining passport oddities with stringent rules in a post 9/11 world, who can?
Shut up and soldier, Boris. If the worst inconvenience an international WOT causes you is vacation travel hitches, think about what Brits had to endure in 1940, then count yourself blessed beyond reason.
Farewell, d!ckhe@d.
or how about... Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
The left's overblown sense of importance is amazing!
They love to hear themselves talk, esp. this guy. What a windbag!
It's like they somehow expect millions of letters to the editor begging them to stay.
"The left's overblown sense of importance is amazing!"
Who on earth mentioned 'the left'?
The only way I would even read the entire tome of $hit he wrote would be if he'd written it from wherever the hell he came from (as in, not from America).
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