Subject: Reasons For Being English, Welsh, Irish
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Tue Jun 04 2002 - 14:06:38 EDT
"Top 10 Reasons For Being English"
1. Two World Wars and One World Cup
{doo-dah doo-dah}
2. Warm beer
3. You get to confuse everyone with the rules
of cricket
4. You get to accept defeat graciously in major
sporting events
5. Union jack underpants
6. Water shortages guaranteed every single
summer
7. You can live in the past and imagine you are
still a world power.
8. Bathing once a week-whether you need to
or not
9. Ditto changing underwear
10. Beats being Welsh.
11. Or Scottish
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"Top 10 Reasons For Being Welsh"
1. You have got to be having a laugh, haven't
you?!?!?!?
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"Top 10 Reasons For Being Irish"
1. Guinness
2. 18 children because you can't use
contraceptives
3. You can get into a fight just by marching
down someone's road
4. Pubs never close
5. Can use Papal edicts on contraception
passed in the second Vatican Council of 1968
to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have
sex with a condom on.
6. No one can ever remember the night before
7. Kill people you don't agree with
8. Stew
9. More Guinness
10. Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish
pub at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian
violence.
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