To: epicure who wrote (7518 ) 11/26/2000 5:46:51 AM From: SunSpot Respond to of 10042 It is too late for USA. The Queen has taken action. Please read the following. Greetings Holger, Europe NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE > > To the citizens of the United States of America, > > In the light of your failure to elect anybody as President of the > USA and thus to govern yourselves and, by extension, the free > world, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your > independence, effective today. > > Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial > duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories > including New Jersey. > > > To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, please > comply with the following acts: > > 1. Look up "revocation" in the now official Oxford Dictionary > ($75). Start spelling English words correctly. > > 2. Learn at least the first 4 lines of "God Save The Queen" > > 3. Start referring to "soccer" as football > > 4. Declare war on Quebec and France > > 5. Arrest Mel Gibson for treason > > 6. Close down the NFL. Learn to play rugby > > 7. Enjoy warm flat beer and steak and kidney pudding. Train > waitresses to be more aggressive with customers and not to tell > you their names before you eat. > > 8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday, this has been replaced > with November 5th. > > 9. All members of this British Crown Dependency will be required > to take 6 weeks annual vacation and observe statutory tea breaks. > > 10. Driving on the left is now compulsory - recall all cars to > effect the change immediately. > > 11. Report to our Consulate General in NY - M Wragg - for your > new passport and job allocation. > > 12. Have Meg Ryan report to the Prince Andrews Bedchamber. > > 13. Add the Royal insignia to the top of the Washington > Monument - and the Queens Christmas speeches to the Lincoln > Memorial. > > 14. Stop referring to the World Series of Baseball and instead > call it the National Series of USA, Cuba and Japan. > > 15. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you > shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated > to 1776)."