THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The Yanks ignore Europe pretty firmly
Chapter 101
In fact, the Yanks had decided to really put their foot down this time,
2And not get involved no matter what,
3Because now that eProhibition had been repealed,
4The Yanks had better things to do than get tricked into another European comic opera,
5Which always featured a lot of elaborate fplots, gfancy costumes, and hblood-drenched battlefields,
6iAnd not much else.
7So the Yanks stuck pretty firmly to their policy of ignoring Europe,
8And when the newsreels started filling up with great jcomic-opera footage of Nazi rallies that were even more elaborately staged than a kBusby Berkeley production number,
9The Yanks just yawned and told lKraut jokes.
10When the Italians topped the Krauts by making mMussolini and his henchmen wear even sillier uniforms than the Nazis,
11The Yanks just yawned and told nWop jokes.
12oWhen rumors started circulating that the Krauts were persecuting the Jews and even putting some of them in concentration camps,
13The Yanks just yawned and told pJew jokes.
14qWhen Hitler started getting really rambunctious and annexed Austria,
15The Yanks yawned and discovered they didn’t know any jokes about Austrians, so they laughed instead at the spineless rFrogs and sBrits who let Hitler get away with it.
16tWhen Hitler grabbed Czechoslovakia, the Yanks laughed at uNeville Chamberlain and his prissy little vumbrella.
17wAnd when Hitler invaded Poland, the Yanks breathed a sigh of relief,
18Because if there’s one thing the Yanks have a lot of, it’s xPolish jokes.
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