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DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes
itwbennett writes "In a classic case of 'we say destroy, you say party hard,' the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security detained a pair of British twenty-somethings for 12 hours and then sent them packing back to the land of the cheeky retort. At issue is a Tweet sent by Leigh Van Bryan about plans to 'destroy America,' starting with LA, which, really, isn't that bad an idea."
"starting with LA, which, really, isn't that bad an idea"
Certainly has worked for a lot of movies.
But somehow, it doesn't quite rate up with Godzilla's thing for stomping Tokyo.
We cannot be too careful, I hear that those Brits are planning something for the War of 1812 bicentennial. This time, not only will they burn down the white house, but they will also steal our celebrities' remains!
Palm trees and 8
Indeed - one of my best friends is a Brit - when her brother came over here, the first thing he said after giving her a big hug was "God, I could murder a fag right now".*.. he got some strange looks.
*- A colloquialism for "I really need a cigarette" seeing as he'd been on a plane for 7 hours... needless to say, she had to quickly explain to him that this means "kill a gay person" in America.
The Digital Sorceress
... the other tweet in question was a Family Guy quote ...
Ah, copyright infringement. No wonder they were kicked out.
'Emporer' is the american spelling.
despots usually get assinated
That sounds unpleasant.
What, btw, is an emporer?
In the hierarchy of the American oligarchs, the emporer is a most exalted merchant; traditionally, he is also allowed to bear the title of First Citizen of the Emporium.
Breakfast served all day!
It's the illiterate jackass spelling.
Kinda like "Zieg [sic] Heil," hey?
Perhaps to your untrained eyes, the poster appears to have poor grasp of the English language and suffers from frequent lack of accuracy in spelling, but I am entirely convinced that this Anonymous Coward in fact wields English with such Mastery as to dethrone the Bard at his finest!
Let's examine the two examples that you have brought up:
"Emporer" appears to be an incorrect spelling of the word "Emperor". However, I believe the word in fact derives from "emporium", i.e. the "emporer" would in fact mean the "shopkeeper"! It is obvious that he or she is alluding to the rise of USA through capitalism, and making the claim that the ones of stand highest in the land are corporate CEOs!
"Assinated" also appears to be a poor rendition of the word "assassinated". But the correct interpretation is that it comes from the word "asinine", i.e. to be "assinated" means to be made "extremely foolish or stupid", indeed the fate most feared by despots! And ironically, through your ignorance, you were correct in your guess and that the word "assinated" does in fact mean "to be made an ass clown".
I pray that you will careful study this particularly fine piece of writing again and try to divine the finer meanings!