Verbal High Fives

It’s the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee which, for those uneducated plebs out there, means that the British public just had a long weekend in which to pay tribute to their Queen and celebrate her incredible 60 years of Royal service. Q . How did the British public go about accomplishing this important task? A. They toasted Her Royal Highness until they became inebriated to the point of not knowing who the Queen even was.  Just kidding, the British public would never do that! They showed their appreciation for the Queen by turning out in their hundreds of thousands to attend 4 days of Jubilee events, stand in the rain for hours, and wave their British flags until they got tennis elbow. My family and I decided to attend the Thames River Pageant to watch the 1000 boat flotilla, by which I mean we sat in the rain for 6 hours. After all, the origin of the term “British support” comes from the West Germanic phrase for “to be rained upon in a patriotic manner.” We ...