From: John Clower
To: talk2
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 10:17 PM
Subject: RE: The Talk2 List John Cleese's "Letter to America"
I came across this a few years ago, and I read somewhere that in fact this
wasn't written by John Cleese at all, but meerly falsely a
If I didn't go toilet before reading, I'd have quite unhappily pissed myself
laughing but I did not, thankfully. I never did see that before but it is
great. Very good.
Whoever wrote it did a good job for sure.
On Friday, February 15, 2008 9:57 PM,
Vanja Sudar happened to mention in passing:
I came across this a few years ago, and I read somewhere that in fact this
wasn't written by John Cleese at all, but meerly falsely attributed to him.
'tis quite hilarious in either instance. While reading the line about the
constant inserting of 'like' and 'you know' into common American dialogue
Lol. I first saw this just after the 2000 chaff jockey, I.E. the start
to the downfall of the United States of America and world economics as we
know them.
Of course, Gordon Brown was replaced with Tony Blair, er, reverse
chronological thingy, but relatively the same otherwise.
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