On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:01:52 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
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> >>> On 5/27/2014 11:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> >>>> Nice flag) Tell me about it?
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> >>> The King of Hawaii at the time the flag was designed, was friendly
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> >>> with Great Britain. It's the only American state flag to have the
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> >>> Union Jack incorporated into it. Just think about it - we could have
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> >> With us too)))))
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> > Better the Brits than the Spaniards or France, is what I always say. :-)
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> But of course me old cock sparrer ))) You are always welcome to be one of
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I have no idea what a cock sparrer is but I like how you Brits have idioms that reak of Old Britannia and the days when Britian ruled the waves and Dicken's England. Our slang mostly goes about as far back as the beginning of the space and internet age.

I suspect that the security lady at the Manchester Airport might want to be one of us. I am of the belief that she kept my Hawaii driver's license. I saw her at the gate later on, accompanied by 2 officers wearing bullet-proof vests and carrying what looked to be AR-15s. So much for the notions that cops in the UK do not carry arms. It looked like something big was going down and that perhaps it was a bad time to bring up the matter of my drivers license. Well I sure hope she enjoys it.

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