I'm tired of those arrogant British...

[Theben]

... and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Didn't Emerson and Thoreau do that like 150 years ago?

[Hueij]

"I've admired the British ever since I saw them on PBS as a kid," Prousalis added, blushing slightly.

[Theben]

Didn't Emerson and Thoreau do that like 150 years ago?

Young people don't relate to them. We need a more marketable image.

[molly bloom]

Re: I'm tired of those arrogant British...

Originally posted by Theben
... and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one.

The French are worse, though, just ask Belgians.

The Germans are worse than the French, just ask any Frisians or Dutch.

The Poles are worse than the Germans, just ask the Russians.

The Swedes are worse than the Poles, just ask the Evil Finns.

But the most arrogant, the most painfully up their own intestinal tracts without a proctologist in sight, or a friendly s.t.d. clinic nurse with forceps on hand, are the Swiss.


Just ask the Luxemburgers.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

"All we want is one little nod of affirmation, a pat on the back, a 'good job' for some of the things we've done as a country," said Matthew Prousalis, a customer-service agent for AT&T Wireless in Peoria. "Really, all it would take is a quick 'Thanks for inventing the first successful gas-powered automobile. Keep it up.' That's it. But no, nothing."

Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz were American?

[Drake Tungsten]

I thought Daimler invented the first successful truck?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp


Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz were American?

Posthumously inducted into running dog lackey paper tiger citizenship.

Like John Logie Baird, Daguerre and Louis and Auguste Lumiere.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I thought Daimler invented the first successful truck?

'1885 - Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine - with a vertical cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburetor (patented in 1887). Daimler first built a two-wheeled vehicle the "Reitwagen" (Riding Carriage) with this engine and a year later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
1886 - On January 29, Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car.
1889 - Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders. '

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsgasa.htm

Vorsprung durch Technik.

[Drake Tungsten]

I googled that like 5 minutes ago, but thanks anyway...

[Dis]

when I watch British programs on PBS, I respected the British even less.

How can they find crap like that funny?

Aside from a few Monty Python sketches, the British have no sense of humour at all, and can't do comedy.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Dissident
when I watch British programs on PBS, I respected the British even less.

How can they find crap like that funny?

Aside from a few Monty Python sketches, the British have no sense of humour at all, and can't do comedy.

Yeah, that 'Fawlty Towers' is so humourless.

'Waiting for God'? Nope. 'The Young Ones'? Nah, mate.

'Till Death Us Do Part' ? Not a chance, me old china.

Astonishing, then, that they should choose to remake 'Till Death Us Do Part' as 'All in the Family' in the United States, and there have been two unsuccessful retreads of 'Fawlty Towers' for American television.

And why do Americans like Benny Hill?

'The Americans made their own version of the show called All In The Family with the Alf Garnett character being renamed to Archie Bunker. The Germans also made a version and The Garnetts' became The Tetzlaff's!).'

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/comedy/tilldeath.htm

'A changed format arrangement means that the 'theme' of the show is purchased. CBS will be free to write their own scripts and characters. The same has been done with other hit shows like Absolutely Fabulous, One Foot in the Grave and Cracker.'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/57452.stm

[Drake Tungsten]

And why do Americans like Benny Hill?

We don't, to the best of my knowledge.

[Dis]

Benny Hill rocked!

well mabye it did when I was a kid. When you are 8 years old, that was quality entertainment.

I don't think it would be as intellectually stimulating today.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

And why do Americans like Benny Hill?

We don't, to the best of my knowledge.

'In 1979, the Thames material was re-edited into a package of half-hour shows for the American TV agent Don Taffner and these became hugely successful, causing Hill to become arguably the biggest star on US television at that time, and confounding those who had believed that, as in the case of Monty Python the essential Britishness of the humour could not appeal beyond these shores. That it did, and that Americans embraced Hill in such an all-encompassing fashion, owes much to his skill as a mime artist - many of his best sketches were without dialogue - and also to the shock factor generated by the more risqué material at a time when, generally, US TV was much more tame. '

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/b/bennyhillshowthe_7773365.shtml

But evidently they did.