Date: 2025-08-21 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00028713
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DUMB ABD DUMBER
ABOUT THE CITIES OF BOSTON
DUMB ABD DUMBER
ABOUT THE CITIES OF BOSTON
Original article:
As an American, I just discovered there's a city called Boston in the UK. Are the British so desperate to be like us that they’re copying our city names?
PEPLY:
Here’s the question that troubles me: are these questions genuine?
Normally I’d like to dismiss them as the kind of stuff trolls will inflict; but then I remember the questioner might be just another American - God help us.
On the presumption that the questioner is not an algorithm/bot/troll/whatever but yet another American fuckwit, here’s the answer:
The town of Boston is so old that no one knows for sure how old it is. But it’s probably less than 1,000 years. This makes it at least 400 years older than the US town of the same.
The original settlement is thought - no one knows for sure - to have got its modern name from St. Botolph’s Church. “Botolph’s Town………Botolphston………Boston” you see.
You can see it in this photo. Pretty, isn’t it. The foundations were laid around 1450 and the building itself was completed around 1520. About 250 years before the US of A became a country.
I sometimes think that the worst thing that ever happened to America is not Trump but the Internet. Now at last the world is waking up to what a bunch of dumb twats most Americans actually are.
P.S. I feel ashamed that, in a moment of thoughtlessness, I insulted all Americans. My friends, I am well aware that not all of you are ignorant fools, and that has to be said. You have my apologies. Our problem - yours and ours - is that so many of your countrymen are.
Including your President.
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