This is the plan / You die and I take their oil
A American Pride Eagle post.
Your cousin from Ohio visits London and converts every price into dollars out loud, every distance into football fields and every queue into a personal insult. He calls the Thames "cute". Fourth of July. The neighbour's fireworks start at four in the afternoon, in broad daylight, and end when the shed catches fire. He salutes the shed. At the hockey game the crowd chants USA for the whole third period. Three quarters of the team are Canadian. The chanting does not slow down. In a meeting someone suggests switching the spreadsheet to metric. Your American colleague looks at him as though he's suggested burning the flag. "We measure in cups, Steve. Like free people." **Why it caught on:** the bald eagle has been on the Great Seal of the United States since 1782, and here it glares in front of the Stars and Stripes. Americans used it to laugh at themselves, everyone else to laugh at Americans, and the eagle never once blinked.