“Do not fuck with me, England.”
~George Washington
George Washington is a lot like Gizmo from Gremlins. He’s a good guy that you don’t want to be on the bad side of, and we’re only assuming that he doesn’t like getting wet. While we’re at it, we’re just going to assume that the both of them hated the British as well.
Well, now we at least know that the Brits are still terrified of Washington. According to a recent poll run by the National Army Museum of the UK to determine who was Britain’s greatest foe of all time, Washington came out in first place. While we wonder who decided to come up with the short list of enemies (Hitler, for example, seems strangely absent) we are pleased that our European allies still go to sleep at night with nightmarish visions of Washington’s wooden teeth and laser vision.
As much as we applaud Washington’s place as the badass of all badasses, as journalists (ha!) it is our sworn (?) duty to delve as deeply into this issue as possible. So, it’s time to begrudgingly compare Washington to the rest of the people England considers their sworn enemy to see if the honor is anything worth getting excited over.
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