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I trust that you have read George Mike's "How to be an Alien," the greatest British invention being the queue.

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Indeed, the other two very grand jokes being - The British talk about the weather because only they have any, everyone else has a climate. Other people have sex lives, the British have hot water bottles.

And you're right, the first of those three would make a good addition to this piece.

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Come on Tim, British by birth. English by the grace of God.

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Indeed, indeed, but it's been some centuries since it was the English, not British, Navy.

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