At least we're not French...

[allemande]

It has come to my (easily amused) attention that following an as of yet unstarted initiative by Gordon Brown, Times Online Readers have submitted suggestions for a motto that should "capture Britishness in five or six words".

You can read the suggestions here. And you get everything, from passionately pompous ("Pride, passion, history, monarchy

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[dawnzabini]

What I loved most was that the person saying "At least we're not American" was actually from the US.
(Also as a result of that initiative I spent the afternoon jumping poor, unsuspecting students to ask them to sum up university in five words. My favourite was "square".)

[allemande]

Poor unsuspecting students indeed, being jumped by a German...