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[VolPivots]

is it ok to beat up English people on the 4th...just for old times' sake? i'm also curious to know, how many latinos actually know how to speak latin? Those are rhetorical of course Have a great n safe 4th!!!

[thespookyone]

I have friends in Scotland. I always tease then that when the British left there, they took the Scottish crown jewels with them-when they left here the only thing they took with them was our foot up their rear. There's my bit, LOL.

[wxyzzy]

Lincoln's admiration for Washington took an interesting twist in a story he repeated to his friends. Shortly after the Black Hawk war, Captain Abraham Lincoln returned to New Salem, and Abner Y. Ellis met him, but did not know him well until the summer and fall of 1833 when the two young men boarded at the same log Tavern kept by Henry Onstott. Ellis heard Lincoln tell an anecdote about Colonel Ethan Allen of Revolutionary war fame. According to Lincoln's telling, shortly after the United States made peace with England, Ethan Allen visited England, and while there "the English took Great pleasure in teasing him, and trying to "make fun of the Americans and General Washington in particular...." So one day they got a picture of General Washington and hung it up in the "Back House" where Ethan Allen could see it. They asked Allen if he had seen the picture of his friend in the privy. Allen said "no," as Lincoln told the story, "but said he thought that it was a very appropriate [place] for an Englishman to Keep it." "Why," they asked. Ethan Allen answered: "there is nothing that Will Make an Englishman $hit so quick as the Sight of Genl Washington." And after that, they let "Mr. Allens Washington alone."

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[goldswinger]

With all due respect that's a dumb question,it is like asking how many Americans can speak American? BTW the answer is probably much less than 1% as only priests learn that crap. GS.

[milbank]

Not just the priests, I had to learn Latin too. Below is how I felt about it at the time... "Latin is a dead language it's plain enough to see. It killed off all the Romans and now it's killing me."