The Limey in You is a special section where we will review how things we consider part of American language and culture are actually under demonic persuasion of the Brits.

• 'The Great American Past Time' of baseball is actually a British-born game. Invented somewhere in the early 1700's, it's now known in Britain as a little kids game called rounders. The only major difference is that the bat is smaller and you get points for every base you cross.
  
• The lovely state of Virginia was named after her majesty, Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen. So despite how much you disassociate it in your head, you are still in the same boat as New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, etc: its all part of New ENGLAND.
  
• The American cheese-teen-sitcoms was taken to a new plateau with "Saved by the Bell" - a stupid laugh track show about some teenagers in highschool. That term is decidedly Brittish. Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey and the combination would sometimes knock a person out for a couple of days. People would take the poor drunks for dead and bury them. Being that England is so old and small, they eventually started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and upon re-opening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they they started tying a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and attach it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer".
  
• In the year 1040, Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry, imposed certain taxes on his tenants, which his wife, Lady Godiva, besought him to remove. Leofric said he would do so if she would ride (a horse) naked around the town. She did, and he kept his word. The legend has it that all men were kept indoors; but a tailor, Thomas, was found peering through his curtains. This, the original 'Peeping Tom', had his eyes put out.
  
• The tune for the "America: My Country Tis of The" which was first sung in Boston in 1832, was stolen from The British National Anthem, "God Save the Queen" which was written and performed in 1745.
  
• The weak but action-packed Bon Jovi flick, "U-571" is about a bunch of scrappy Americans comandeering a Nazi U-Boat. It's a true story all right, but is was the British Navy that did the brave deed.
  
• The phrase "thrown in the clink" actually refers to Clink Prison, which resided near the London Bridge from the 12th century until its destruction in 1780
  
• The saying 'son of a gun' coined by the likes of Ronald Reagan and John Wayne unknowingly were saying a British sailor term for a bastard child. Female hands on a ship who fell victim to sailors were taken between the cannon guns for seclusion and some sort of privacy. The resulting babies were marked in the log books when the father was unknown as 'son of a gun' or as it means now, 'a surprise'.
  
• In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".
  
• In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them "Mind their own pints and quarts and settle down." It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".
  
• In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.
  
• In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only_ Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. It's just too bad they don't make golfers wear kilts to play.