The US is still part of Great Britian

All of this would be moot if there was an international statute of limitations on war (retaking real estate). 10 years after a war ends, title to real estate passes to the winner.

 

Didn't she come to bet the crown jewels on a longshot at the Kentucky Derby?

 

That was worth reposting, for the Queens sake. I made it a little larger for extra measure :laugh:


just kidding

 

She is no more queen of Ireland that she is the US. That should be Northern Ireland.

 

I would trade them New Jersey for Ireland.

 

Interesting story...............

 

I knew it.

Tony Blair's running for President, isn't he?

 

Yes, originally an "esquire" was a trainee knight, and later came to mean someone like a Justice of the Peace (JP) who "bear any office of trust under the crown", but it also came to be used far more widely, placed after a man's name as a mark of respect, instead of "Mr" before the name. In such usage, no particular relationship to "the crown" is implied. I remember in primary school (similar to US "elementary school", I think) when learning how to address envelopes correctly, being taught that it was incorrect to write "Mr R Jones, Esq." It should be either "R. Jones, Esq." or "Mr R Jones". That was back in the late 1950s. (Nowadays in the UK such usage has all but died out).

An online etymological dictionary says about the word Esquire:

1374, from M.Fr. esquier "squire," lit. "shield-bearer" (for a knight), from O.Fr., from L. scutarius "shield-bearer, guardsman," from scutum "shield" (see hide (n.1)). Cf. squire. Originally the feudal rank below knight, sense broadened 16c. to a general title of courtesy or respect for the educated class, especially, later, in U.S., for lawyers. ​

So you cannot rightly use the fact that Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and John Adams put "Esquire" (or "Esq.") after their names to add weight to your theory that the US is still a British colony.