Re: Life is but a melancholy flower

Phil Carmody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> All I remember from my youth was the infinitely immature, 
> and deliberately crude:

[amusing ditty snipped]

That's funny, it contains the same pun that seems so obvious now but which
I heard earlier today (in a different context) for the first time. The
story was about Bush's recent visit to England. During teatime with the
Queen, he remarked that he quite liked the idea of a kingdom, and perhaps
when he got home he'd set about turning America into one. The Queen
replied "No, I'm afraid you'd need a king for that."  George scratches his
head and says "Well maybe I'd like an empire instead!" to which the Queen
shakes her head patiently and explains "you'd need an emperor for that." 
"Oh well" says George, "maybe the US should just be a country."  "Mmm" 
says the Queen.