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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/22/2008 12:07:34 PM
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Great minds think alike...IMHO!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/22/2008 12:33:35 PM
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Saturn the car company
but I'm sure that the cars are not 100% American...there must be something foreign in them or they wouldn't be American, right? 
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/22/2008 12:44:48 PM
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Did you watch Waking the Dead yesterday Manda? I was more hooked than usual and can't wait for tonight's episode.
Yes I did! Extremely gripping!! Thing is, I *have* to wait because Dave is working tonight, and will arrive home at 9.30pm. If I watch it, he will walk in in the middle of it, which would mean he'd have to go out again LOL. The added complication is Liverpool vs Chelsea, of which he could see the last 15-20 mins of when he comes in. So I will record Waking the Dead (which my daughter once thought was called Whacking the Dead, lol, so that's what we call it in our house!) and then watch it later tonight with Dave, probably when Jonathan gets in from Uni at midnight!!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/22/2008 2:15:35 PM
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sure...and that would never happen 
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/22/2008 2:49:39 PM
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Did you watch Waking the Dead yesterday Manda? I was more hooked than usual and can't wait for tonight's episode.
I was reading 33 pages on the difference between us Brits and our American cousins, with it on in the background, but I will be enthraled with tonights episode.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 8:13:16 AM
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I've met very few Americans claim British heritage so I'm not sure if they'd describe us as cousins...
That CAN claim British heritage, or that WOULD claim British heritage?
My mom is researching her family tree right now. She has given a whole lot of money to the GRO!
That would make me your half cousin LOL....my dad can't claim British heritage.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 11:10:18 AM
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British heritage?
hmm...dad's last name is Sherwood
whatcha think?
although he claims scotland
or is it ireland 
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 11:39:39 AM
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Sherwood is in England...
Scottish would count as British heritage, Ireland (Republic) wouldn't...
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 11:43:49 AM
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Does that mean that British is not England?
I'm so confused...course, I get confused with anything west of the mississippi around here, too.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 12:49:55 PM
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Britain is more than England...
Great Britain comprises England, Scotland and Wales. England and Scotland are both kingdoms (ruled by a king or queen) and Wales is a principality (ruled by a prince, hence Charles is the Prince of Wales)...
The United Kingdom includes Northern Ireland (which is where I was born, though my heritage is Scottish and Irish). The Republic of Ireland gained independance from the UK in the early 20's...
And yes, I did check some facts out!
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 1:13:29 PM
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Britain is more than England...
Great Britain comprises England, Scotland and Wales. England and Scotland are both kingdoms (ruled by a king or queen) and Wales is a principality (ruled by a prince, hence Charles is the Prince of Wales)...
The United Kingdom includes Northern Ireland (which is where I was born, though my heritage is Scottish and Irish). The Republic of Ireland gained independance from the UK in the early 20's...
And yes, I did check some facts out!
thank you...I knew my understanding was not very clear. Listening to Bono doesn't really help.
What about the Queen - does she just rule England?
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 1:47:33 PM
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Scottish would count as British heritage
Ooooh, gosh ......... you're brave, agapetos!
Though I don't think we have many (any?) miltant Scots posting here at CW.
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 1:54:12 PM
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does she just rule England? Not quite just England...
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Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926)[1] is the Queen regnant of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and dependencies. Though she holds each crown and title separately and equally, she is resident in and most directly involved with the United Kingdom, her oldest realm, over parts of whose territories her ancestors have reigned for more than a thousand years. She ascended the thrones of seven countries in February 1952 on the death of her father King George VI. (See Context below.)
In addition to the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis, in each of which she is represented by a Governor-General. The 16 countries of which she is Queen are known as Commonwealth realms, and their combined population, including dependencies, is over 129 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II
I'm not sure that I've heard of all those places
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RE: Question from a Brit to any Y... umm American - 4/23/2008 2:19:47 PM
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wow...that's seems to be a lot more than England
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