On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:50:39 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
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> >> > On 5/27/2014 11:32 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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> >> >>> On 5/27/2014 11:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> >> >>>> Nice flag
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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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> >> >>> been British subjects. That would probably have been fine with us.
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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
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> > I have no idea what a cock sparrer is but I like how you Brits have idioms
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> > that reak of Old Britannia and the days when Britian ruled the waves and
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> > Dicken's England. Our slang mostly goes about as far back as the beginning
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> Just an affectionate London term
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> > I suspect that the security lady at the Manchester Airport might want to
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> > be one of us. I am of the belief that she kept my Hawaii driver's license.
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> > I saw her at the gate later on, accompanied by 2 officers wearing
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> > notions that cops in the UK do not carry arms. It looked like something
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> > big was going down and that perhaps it was a bad time to bring up the
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> > matter of my drivers license. Well I sure hope she enjoys it.
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> That is normal at airports and they would have been MP3s not AR-15s Not
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Thanks. Being in an unfamilar place with automatic wepons about makes me a little paranoid. Believe it or not, Americans are not used to seeing in-your-face displays like that. Maybe we will one day. Anyway, you got yourselves one heck of a country - congrats.
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