The silly thing is that French Fries are misnamed to begin with - they really should be called Belgian Fries

A similar thing happened with the town I was born in. It was originally named Petersburg, but during the war it was changed to the very English-sounding Peterborough and the name stuck ...

Quote from Hankstar :

Imagine if Canada pissed off the Whitehouse: would they rename maple syrup "Liberty Juice"?

No. If the Canadians pissed us off, they'd be getting 12 million welfare recipients that didn't speak English or French - and we'd boycott Rush concerts.

Quote from DarkTimes :

If he really wanted to show his love, he should start living by British Summer Time.

Oh, I did that before, but my parent's said it was bad for my "social life", I just laughed at them and called my cat Hitler.

It's indeed old, if we still had those thank you buttons I would have pressed it, registered a new username and pressed it again.

Good post!