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the president of UK (Jackie)
Was that what the election was about? Last I heard we still had a queen. (Bingley)
Unfortunately, we still have, Bingley. The only plus point is that she probably doesn't cost so much, and definitely does less harm, than a president.
Inside knowledge is required to interpret Jackie's gnomic phrase (above):
You have, first, to take into account the inate insularity of the citizens of the USA - which is very odd, considering that they are not an island (quite apart from the Donne-ish perspective.)
Second, you need to have picked up on the numerous clues that Jackie comes from "the land of 'shut ya mouth' and 'you-all'" as the immortal Lehrer has it, and, more specifically, from the part of that land where Van Gough painted the grass.
"UK" takes on a whole new meaning.
(and that is quite apart from Aenigma's insistence that Jacking visited the president of the Ukraine
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