My green card arrived today!!!! er. That's all. I'm just happy. Phil (Almost a fully fledged Yank)

Congrats!!

congratulations dude! drac (now we can start blaming you for stuff)

Congratulations!!(Sung to the tune of the "Star Spangled Banner")

congratulations! (And Jimi Hendrix version, too, GG. :-))

Congratulations! Yeah, but the real test will be if you find yourself surrounded by Yanks singing "My Country Tis of Thee" and you find yourself wanting to sing the words of "God Save the Queen",lol.

Shouldn't be a problem. Like most Brits, I only know the first line to God Save the Queen.

"god save the queen" ?

LOLwelcome yank! Congratulations, now you can join the rest of us ostracized from the world community. Damn, 20 million illegals cant be wrong! ;D

No you bloody foreigner! ;-) "God save our gracious Queen,"

Congrats! Welcome. Any Idea where you'll be looking to work (geographicly speaking ) save the what now? Why? Is she in trouble? my regards to prince cemmila (sp?)

I have a job already Red. I got work authorisation sorry authorization a while back. Working in Fishers, Indiana. Cemmila is close enough.

@Drac-As you know by now my humor tends to lean to the obscure. If I'm not mistaken, the American song "My Country Tis of Thee" and the British anthem "God Save the Queen" have the same melody. Hope this clarifies things. ;-)

Indiana not a bad place to live. been there a few times a bit cold fer my taste but nice and open country sides, decent ppl. Good luck!

Now if you learn the alternate words to 'Perseus in Anachreon'..you'll fit right in (hint, it happened during the war of 1812..;)

Pakled, you mean Francis Scott Key and his famous words set to "To Anacreon in Heaven"?

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"god save the queen" ? > Like most Brits, I only know the first line to God Save > the Queen. Lucky for you that you don't know the second line:ž "she ain't a human bein'" Me listened to Sex Pistols? Never! :-)

I won a karaoke once by singing the Sex Pistols version. I think they let me win to stop me singing though.

Congratulations....your one step closer to being a true blue American! Here...you can have some of my share of the tax burden....it gets heavier every day.

Congrats Phil !! .....Now does this designate you as a "Good Ole Limey"?

wow, congrats!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed, sent away the papers to remove the conditions on my Perm Resident status just before Christmas...hope it turns out as well as for you ;D

Congrats, Phil, couple of more years, and you gonna be a citizen !!! :D

Yep, in acouple of years all the world's problems will be partly your fault...

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Yay for Phil! Put on your cape and mask, it's time to police the world!

Phil: Can ya mail me a few gallons of gas (petrol - in case you've forgotten) at USA prices? (Unleaded)

Oh and do us all a favour and don't vote for Bush...

Bryster - Gas prices over here are crazy at the moment. $1.91 a gallon! See, been here six months and already I think 1 pound a gallon is a lot :-) And I can't vote yet. So can't do a lot about that. BUT, no one can vote for Bush again. Blonderella, you're just behind me. Another month or two. Thanks for the kindness, I know this means nothing to you, but I appreciate it.

Export of gas(petrol) is strictly prohibited :D, how about some lighter fluid, Bryster, would that work with british cars (?), lol :P

Damn! Just realised I wrote Gas without thinking about it.

:-D Congrats Phil! Just don't lose that charming accent.

That's an American gallon, not an Imperial gallon, lol! Congratulations on this momentous step, Phil!

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tr kewl!! :o)) Party Time!!!!!!!!! :)

I remember watching an american film once, and wondering why they had gas powered generators, when all the ones I know run on diesel :) Can I call you a bloody American now?

Congrats ! Still, can't ever let you forget that we did open up a big ol' can of whoop-ass on you at Yorktown. Welcome to the second imperial phase,......today Iraq, tomorrow Sryia, Iran, France, Latvia, Estonia, Monoco, Djbouti, Norway, Madagascar, Bermuda, Antarctica, etc.,........(watch this space).

hey phil, in order to be a full-fledged american, you need to go to boston and empty a cuppa in the harbour :D drac

I'd like some of the petrol that bryster asked for too!!! Congrats Phil As to Boston, spent 5 hours there waiting for a plane to be fixed, discovered that the american airlines crew are possibly one of the worst that I've flown when it comes to being friendly at 3:30 am in a closed airport :(

Now your almost a real Hoosier!...only people from Indiana would understand!

Even people from Indiana don't seem to know why tey are called that. I think it's just so they are not called Indians.

England's loss - America's gain I think. But don't forget they are still not overly in love with the Brits, remember......... In 1814 we took a little trip along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans. We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin. There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin' on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. A hit in England for Donegan and a hit in America for a guy called Driftwood, sais it all really. :) Still, I'm not biased (much?) so good luck to you and yours in your new American future life. Dennis

Dennisld: You're just jealous 'cos we got a real Queen and all you got is Bush! And if we're talking about the War of Independance, you might remember that we managed to hang the ringleaders....;-)

TheBryster - Think you may have grabbed the wrong end of the stick, I'm so English I've only been out of the country twice and one of those times was a trip to the Isle of Wight! A certain young pro golfer named Casey recently said what he thought about Americans and promptly dug himself a hole which he can't now get out of. So if you think I'm going to say I don't like Americans........... Asta la vista

well, I was close, at least I got Anachreon right..;) serves me right for trusting my memory..;) welcome..now if you ever go back to the 'owd sod', and you miss American things, you'll have 'gone native'..;)

The War of Independence was in 1776, the Battle of New Orleans was in 1814, part of the War of 1812.

Yeah, Thanks Tresamie for making the corrections, I was tempted but decided not to. Speaking of being stupid ... what was Casey thinking making such generalizations? Serves him right being the snub that he is and he wouldnt be missed if he decided to move back to England, I can assure you of that. Id say, dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Sorry, I couldn't pass this one up! :D

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I'm a citizen of the Federation and I'm just waiting for everyone else to catch up,lol.

Well I'm from the Planet 70's and I live on Mars. What do I care. Hey, wasn't that 'Cool Casey At The Bat', a baseball player I think......

LOL...Some clarification may be in order; English golfer Paul Casey made the statement, which he is now trying to cleanup after: "Americans are stupid". Thus my comments: Speaking of being stupid Sometimes I wish I lived on Mars also. ;)

Mad Magazine did a pictorial entitled 'Cool Casey At The Bat' about a zillion years ago. I was wondering if that was what you were on about.

NO, I was on about 2nd paragraph in post 42.