Obama Thanksgiving dinner put on lockdown as man draped in the American flag jumps the White ...

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | November 26, 2015 | Ashley Collman

[Cecily]

The Obama's Thanksgiving celebrations had to be cut short after a man draped in the American flag jumped the fence of the White House.

President Obama and his family were tucking into their turkey dinner when they were put on lockdown so the Secret Service could conduct a sweep of the grounds following the security breach.

CNN reports that Joseph Caputo - who was wearing a baseball shirt, gloves and the flag as a cape when he hopped the fence - was immediately taken into custody.

[Califreak]

They’ll say “See? We toldja so! Fences don’t work in America!”

(Just other countries...)

[Califreak]

Good Old Shoe.

[Califreak]

No.

Tucker is a nickname for food.

Makes sense to me.

[Califreak]

The story is from UK Daily Mail.

[Celtic Conservative]

(poodle with noodles?)

Schnauzer in the schnitzel?

CC

[Califreak]

Chow chow mein

[tumblindice]

So what? I want it translated into American.

[tumblindice]

`Roadkill Rover’?

[smokingfrog]

Made me think of turducken.

[austinaero]

what if this guy had been wearing a suicide vest full of explosives,,with some buddies waiting around the corner for him to take out the first wave of Sec Svc.?

[RummyChick]

The way Brits say SCHEDULE bugs me.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They should have implemented the cheap version that is widely used throughout the world to protect property. It's easy to find the intruder that attempted to scale the fence.

[Old Yeller]

I’m waiting for a SEAL team to do this to take out the enemy.

[Dartman]

Old joke,

What's the difference between the Rolling Stones and Scotty?

The Stones say, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud !!

Scotty says, Hey! McCloud! Get off of my ewe!!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

No. If British terms bothered me I would not read articles on British sites.

It's the Brits who have the inferiority complex that makes them howl bloody murder every time an Americanism appears in one of "their" publications. For my part, I couldn't care less. I expect to see British usage in a British publication, and I'm not scandalized that there are differences between the two vernaculars. And I'm not so dense that I can't deal with both.

[Talisker]

A little off subject, but does the Brit term “tucking into”, as in “tucking into their turkey dinner” get under anyone elses skin?

Weird you ask. Yeah, it's always annoyed me and I don't know why.

[Califreak]

Press one for the Queens English.
(Ducking)
:)

[piasa]

Looks like a binder...

maybe it is a subpoena.

[piasa]

Nice gymnast’s landing, looks like he just leaped off the uneven bars.

[piasa]

I don’t think they would impress a bird, either.