With thanks to DC!
Germany,
Austria and
Italy are stood together in the middle of the pub, when
Serbia bumps into
Austria, and spills
Austria's pint.
Austria demands
Serbia buy it a complete new suit, because there are splashes on its trouser leg.
Germany expresses its support for
Austria's point of view
Britain recommends that everyone calm down a bit.
Serbia points out that it can't afford a whole suit, but offers to pay for cleaning
Austria's trousers.
Russia and
Serbia look at
Austria.
Austria asks
Serbia who it's looking at.
Russia suggests that
Austria should leave its little brother alone.
Austria inquires as to whose army will assist
Russia in compelling it to do so.
Germany appeals to
Britain that
France has been looking at it, and that this is sufficiently out of order that
Britain should not intervene.
Britain replies that
France can look at who it wants to, that
Britain is looking at
Germany too, and what is
Germany going to do about it?
Germany tells
Russia to stop looking at
Austria, or
Germany will render
Russia incapable of such action.
Britain and
France ask
Germany whether it's looking at
Belgium.
Turkey and
Germany go off into a corner and whisper. When they come back,
Turkey makes a show of not looking at anyone.
Germany rolls up its sleeves, looks at
France, and punches
Belgium.
France and
Britain punch
Germany.
Austria punches
Russia.
Germany punches
Britain and
France with one hand and
Russia with the other.
Russia throws a punch at
Germany, but misses and nearly falls over.
Japan calls over from the other side of the room that it's on
Britain's side, but stays there.
Italy surprises everyone by punching
Austria.
Australia punches
Turkey, and gets punched back.
There are no hard feelings, because
Britain made
Australia do it.
France gets thrown through a plate glass window, but gets back up and carries on fighting.
Russia gets thrown through another one, gets knocked out, suffers brain damage, and wakes up with a complete personality change.
Italy throws a punch at
Austria and misses, but
Austria falls over anyway.
Italy raises both fists in the air and runs round the room chanting.
America waits till
Germany is about to fall over from sustained punching from
Britain and
France, then walks over and smashes it with a barstool, then pretends it won the fight all by itself.
By now all the chairs are broken, and the big mirror over the bar is shattered.
Britain,
France and
America agree that
Germany threw the first punch, so the whole thing is
Germany's fault . While
Germany is
still unconscious, they go through its pockets, steal its wallet, and buy drinks for all their friends.
And when
Germany wakes up, it goes out to its car, gets the gun out of the glovebox and heads back inside...
Post Script: A very good German friend of mine had this to say when I sent this to him - Brilliant!
Great! Love that. And it was exactly like that. There is only one thing missing:
America sells beer and chips during the fight. But only to France and Britain. Nevertheless, America gets really rich by that.
When Britain awake at the bar, she recognizes that she run out of money and had to sell the pub to America. America is suddenly the owner of the whole place and Britain has to request for permission to drink beer after 11pm.
Great stuff!
ReplyDeleteI teach 20 century history. You just made it easy for me - cheers!
ReplyDeleteJust used this to explain the origins of WW1 to my 14yr old daughter - worked a treat!
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