Just saying

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE: "If you two are going to kill each other, do it outside - I just finished cleaning!" My mother taught me RELIGION: "You better pray that stain will come out of the carpet." My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL: "If you don't behave, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" My mother taught me LOGIC: "Because I said so, that's why." My mother taught me FORESIGHT: "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident." My mother taught me IRONY: "Keep crying and I'll *give* you something to cry about." My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS: "Shut your mouth and eat your supper!" My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM: "Will you *look* at the dirt on the back of your neck!" My mother taught me about STAMINA: "You'll sit there 'till all...

Is it also hard for others to believe that Great Britain was the country from which long-ago ancestors seeded our continent with pioneering emigrants from their "Old World" country, Great Britain? I have heard it said, that the United States and Great Britain are friendly, allied countries, separated only by an ocean and a common language. I wonder why then, the Brits speak "English" with a heavy, thick accent. If both countries began with common stock, speaking the same tongue, wouldn't we sound the same when we talk? Many words those Limeys use for common objects do not even mean the same thing, to those of us that speak REAL English. The words, Hood, elevator, toilet, truck, umbrella, police officer, congress, president, lawyer and bar, in what I'll call "Great brutish British," become; bonnet, lift, loo, (Snicker) lorry, bumbershoot, (Giggle!) bobby, (Snort!) Parliament, Queen, (HAW, HAW, HAW!) solicitor, and pub! Ask one of them to spel...