Tyranny

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

none of my freedoms are being threatened, aside from the ones that have already been taken from me via the patriot act...and i am not even going to get into who demanded that one be passed....

Nor mention who keeps voting for it.

aerial wrote:

Lemonade stands are as American as hotdogs and apple pie......

Um.

Hotdogs originated in Germany.

They were originally called dachshunds after the shape and colour of a small dog that's long and thin and kinda redish-beige. But Americans weren't able to spell it or pronounce it so the name "Hot Dog" was used by a food vendor who couldn't sell ice cream and cold drinks to baseball fans on cold days.

And Lemonade is French. It comes from the word "limonade."

The French word limonade, which originally meant an "unsweetened lemon-flavored water" or carbonated soda, has since come to mean "soft drink", regardless of flavor, in many countries.

In the UK, the suffix '-ade' means a 'carbonated sweet soft drink'; hence limeade, orangeade, cherryade, etc. Brown lemonade exists in the Northern Ireland region of the UK.

So I guess the idea of dumbing things down is American.







Oh... but apple pie is all yours. You can have it.