The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #81380   Message #1495761
Posted By: Bunnahabhain
29-May-05 - 08:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Imponderables
Subject: RE: BS: Imponderables
innocuous

From Latin innocuus : in-, not; + nocuus, harmful (from nocre, to harm).


Anti british feeling?

ALL.
He is an Englishman!
BOAT.
He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman!
ALL.
That he is an Englishman!
BOAT.
For he might have been a Roosian,
A French, or Turk, or Proosian,
Or perhaps Itali-an!
ALL.
Or perhaps Itali-an!
BOAT.
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!
He remains an Englishman!
ALL.
For in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!
He remains an Englishman!