http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com English humour on an Amercian way of life Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:56:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well David Cameron releases his scheme for Britain's Big Society” and I have to say I am stunned by his audaciousness.  I am not stunned by any disillusion that the idea has any merit, I am slightly taken aback by the fact that he is espousing (what is in essence) ... http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=44 I didn’t watch Tuesday nights election coverage. There was something inside me that just couldn’t tolerate another “historic night.” Living in the United States it has always amused me to see how desperate the American media are to make themselves a part of history. They don’t seem to realise ... http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=43 I am indebted to my my best friend Hissing Sid for coaxing me out of semi retirement with this article from Auntie Beeb. Just when you thought that the P.C. silly season had reached its zenith in the disunited kingdom comes a reminder that in actual fact the silly season actually ... http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=42 To all Americans that visit this site, may the Crazy Englishman wish you a happy 4th of July. (Personally I am off down to the local lake to throw a few cases of coffee in:) Enjoy the fireworks http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=41     Happy Saint Georges Day everybody http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=40 The Crazy Englishman is indebted to his usual circle of concerned “English subjects” for highlighting a disturbing new trend of political correctness taking place inside “This Sceptred Isle.” It seems that running out of ideas to interfere with the English way of life the “P.C. brigade” have now decided to brainwash ... http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=39 A number of Americans have approached me in the last 24 hours to ask me just what is going on in my home country. One even went so far as to print from the Internet a copy of an article which appeared in last weeks Sunday Times. Americans are baffled as ... http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=38 So Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg are funding an "anti tobacco" campaign are they? I have nothing to say about Bloomberg but Bill Gates? I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I heard the news. Perhaps it's guilt that is the motivation for the founder of Microsoft..... How many of us have ... http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=37 I left home at the crack of dawn this morning to the news that one of America's brewing organisations had been bought by a Belgium company. I arrived home some 12 hours later to find CNN reporting that there has been some sort of outcry amongst the public with the Internet ... http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=36 When I went to school in the mid sixties I remember a discussion about oil and the teaching was that supplies would be exhausted by the turn of the century. When I entered the U.S. in November of 1999 a gallon of petrol in Oklahoma fetched the princely sum of $1.00 ... http://www.thecrazyenglishman.com/?p=35