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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 2452083" data-attributes="member: 34175">As noted earlier - Fag  - That phrase brings me no end of humor.When I was stationed in Germany with the Army, a fellow solider from the Isles said in a rather loud voice "Time, to smoke a long fag!"  The ten seconds pregnant pause followed by the burst of uncontrollable laughter (it was about 0300 on a mid shift) lent to some very interesting conversations about what that phrase means in American English versus True English. I believe it was the great statesman Winston Churchill who made the statement, "England and America are two great nations separated by the same language."  I have always remembered this little tidbit when speaking not only with my counterparts from England, but also, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada - we great few who share the common misfortune of slaughtering each others phrases. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> So to the Ugly Yanks, Socialist Canuks, Limeys, Skirtwearers, Kiwis, Sons of criminals and Drunken Irishmen everywhere I salute you! :\  Of course all of the above was meant in good clean fun.  I've served along each of your fellow countrymen and women and have nothing but the HIGHEST regards, to my Anglo brothers everywhere - God's peace</blockquote>

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