King George III: "Colony of Whiners....!"

[Robert R. Frump]

Well, okay. Maybe he didn't say that. Maybe whining wasn't around then. Maybe he used "snigglers." But it's what he meant, no?

[Braised Cod]

It took King George the IV to show us how to whine: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CFefI29TVi4

[Dave]

Actually he said: "When the unhappy and deluded multitude, against whom this force will be directed, shall become sensible of their error, I shall be ready to receive the misled with tenderness and mercy."
So he was ready to be nice to some of the American whiners when the British army came and kicked some colonial butt. Except the British ended up sitting in Boston for a year doing nothing.
Well the rest is history. Next thing you know they'll be whining about not getting the 2012 Olympics.

[Robert R. Frump]

I'm almost certain he said, "Let them eat cake." No?

[Dave]

No, no. He said "Let them drink tea and we'll charge them extra for it. If they whine about it, too bad."

[Patricia E. Rosenberg]

Please do not forget Emily Dickinson's immortal lines:
"Because I could not stop to whine, my whining came with me."
That woman captured the American experience.

[Robert R. Frump]

Thank you counselor? Can you do that in Latin?

Patricia E. Rosenberg said:

Please do not forget Emily Dickinson's immortal lines:
"Because I could not stop to whine, my whining came with me."
That woman captured the American experience.