# UK Dopers - A Call To Arms (or: let's get 'em while they're not looking) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 4, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349 "2002-07-04T13:18:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/21 "2002-07-04T14:11:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milossarian \* > \*\*Yeah, but what happens after you take over again? > > Besides bad television. \*\* Isn’t that what you have now? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/22 "2002-07-04T14:12:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by glee \* > \*\* > > Well it’s time to reveal our secret weapon then… > > just imagine my English accent! 🆒 \*\* An advantage I never considered! _swoon_ ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/23 "2002-07-04T14:13:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > \*\*You can’t pull the wool over our eyes. \*\* Note to CO: Must get more wool. Suggest we take Wyoming first. ---
**Author:** ![woolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ebca7d/32.png) [@woolly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woolly)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/24 "2002-07-04T14:14:17Z")
Damm, it’s the 5th of July here already … does this mean us Aussies have missed the show? Did you win … have they noticed … what would be the most noticable feature of the new regime anyway? BTW, won’t they get a bit sus when they go the the ball game and see there are two batters and lots of “howzats”? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/25 "2002-07-04T14:15:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milossarian \* > \*\*Yeah, but what happens after you take over again? > > Besides bad television. > > And worse food. \*\* [Coughs politely] Baywatch … Knightrider … McDonalds [/coughs politely] [Southern US accent] Jeez, it’s like shootin’ fish ina barrel [/Southern US accent] ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/26 "2002-07-04T14:16:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > \*\* > > Well, don’t for a minue think that I’m going to be the one to help the insurrection by fixing it for you. \*\* Gosh, what un un-cooperative chappie you are, **Eutychus55** Just you wait, my friend! Come the glorious day… Oops - I’m turning inot Citizen Smith now! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/27 "2002-07-04T14:20:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\*Oops - I’m turning inot Citizen Smith now! \*\* Won’t fix typos, either. 😛 And who is this Eutychus “55” that you speak of? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/28 "2002-07-04T14:21:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > Gosh, what un un-cooperative chappie you are, **Eutychus55** Just you wait, my friend! Come the glorious day… > Oops - I’m turning **inot** Citizen Smith now! Celyn, you’re a Grauniad reader, aren’t you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/29 "2002-07-04T14:23:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > You can’t pull the wool over our eyes. \ Leave my scarf out of this. Mummy said it was going to be cold ! Uncle Arthur !! Uncle Arthur !!! \ Spotted dick with lashings of custard, anyone …? ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/30 "2002-07-04T14:23:47Z")
Now now chaps, insulting one another’s countries isn’t the way to go about this. Cheap jibes about television, food and whatnot will not be stood for. More plans: [ul] [li] **Celyn** - the more paratroopers dressed as nuns (and _vice versa_) the better.[/li] [li] **Glee** - it’s a powerful weapon. Use it well.[/li] [li]Pot Noodles at the ready.[/li] [li]No offering to play football during lulls. They wear pads.[/li] [li]Do we have any trumpeteers? We need someone to play the theme from The Great Escape.[/li][/ul] Those that do not favour us can kiss a colourful baboon arse. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/31 "2002-07-04T14:33:50Z")
Paratroopers dressed as nuns should not be deployed in areas with high concentrations of Southern Baptists. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/32 "2002-07-04T14:42:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > \*\*((Hmmm… My Inky sense is tingling, which can mean only one of two things! Either the British plan to re-claim the colonies, or somebody’s just opened a bag of Walkers salt and vinegar crisps!)) \*\* He still thinks these two things are unconnected. He has not seen that they are one and the same! We will steal their land from under their noses, like Gary Lineker stealing Walkers Crisps from under the noses of small children, Gazza, and even Becks himself! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/33 "2002-07-04T14:42:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > \*\* > > Well, don’t for a minue think that I’m going to be the one to help the insurrection by fixing it for you. \*\* Talking of typos, could **Euty** tell this ignorant Brit what a **minue** is? **glee** Touche! Not only a _Grauniad_ reader but a product of a university that once managed to spell its own name wrongly on our matriculation cards! There is no hope for me! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/34 "2002-07-04T14:45:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > **Talking of typos, could Euty tell this ignorant Brit what a minue is?** Hah! You may have your ‘bangers and mash’ and ‘toad in the hole’, but we’ll wipe you off the map with our Gaudere’s Law! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/35 "2002-07-04T14:47:41Z")
My arse has a favourable colour. Oh, uh, can Clog Boys play too? Remember, the last time you said we couln’t play, we sailed up the Thames and destroyed your fleet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/36 "2002-07-04T14:48:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > Pot Noodles at the ready. Look here, young lady, this is not a legal weapon of war. The lack of nutrient means it is a health hazard. \* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > No offering to play football during lulls. They wear pads. Well we have shin pads. Eh? Pardon? **Their chaps wear shoulder pads?** 😕 What, like in Dynasty? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > Do we have any trumpeters? We need someone to play the theme from The Great Escape. Do-do … do-do- **do** -do-do I must say the chappie in that epic film who kept getting put in the refrigerator could do a splendid American accent. Just shows how well we train our Brits at drama school… \*I suppose weapons of war are supposed to be a health hazard :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/37 "2002-07-04T14:53:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > **Oh, uh, can Clog Boys play too?** No chance - if we let you play you’d only do something silly like rename New York to New Amsterdam or something equally ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/38 "2002-07-04T14:55:50Z")
Although he _could_ prove just whose side he’s on by correcting coding mistakes… ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/39 "2002-07-04T14:56:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > Oh, uh, can Clog Boys play too? > Remember, the last time you said we couldn’t play, we sailed up the Thames and destroyed your fleet. 😉 That historical reference fell flat - rather like … **your whole country!** :eek: You may have fine art, linguistic competence beyond our wildest dreams\* and indonesian food (yum!) but: - our very young chaps don’t insert their fingers in lesbians 😕 - we like to qualify for important football tournaments :smack: - is there **anyone** in the Netherlands who speaks less than four languages?! ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-a-call-to-arms-or-lets-get-em-while-theyre-not-looking/117349/40 "2002-07-04T15:15:05Z")
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