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Come on now Guys, it was just a honest mistake. It could happened to anyone, not just the Brits. You know- like the Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges or the Keystone Kops. (This is the first time I've used this acronym) RITFLMAO
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just a honest mistake
Yeahbutİ, if the Marx Brothers had done it they would have known perfectly well what they were doing.
And if it had been a mistake it wouldn't have been an honest one
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Almost as good as the Kiwi trip..."shuffling off to Buffalo!"
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Them brits are navigationally-challenged, it would seem. 
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quote from the guardian...........
The marines beat a hasty retreat and went off to find the real Gibraltar. this, locals observed, was easily recognisable because it had a 1,398 ft high rock sticking out of it.
a German officer said after the battle of the Somme in 1916 "the british are Lions, ..........led by Donkeys"
depressingly little has changed the class system is alive and kicking in the British Army.
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it had a 1,398 ft high rock sticking out of it
There's the problem, right there! The Royal Marines, being good Euronators, were thinking in metric and couldn't make the conversion to metres[sic].
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FoxNews just scrolled this across the bottom of the screen: British Military Apologizes for Accidentally Invading Spain... Sounds like an old Monty Python or Firesign Theatre routine!
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Well ... remember the old Monty Python line, "Aha, NO one expects the Spanish Inquisition!". Well, now it's "Aha, NO one expects the British inhibition!".
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Bring on the Malvinas!!
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Malvinas
At least with Spain they (more or less) agree on the name.
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