A National Mottto
Link: BBC NEWS | Magazine Monitor.
The linked page cheered us up over our breakfast toast. Readers of the BBC Website posted a thousand suggestions in response to El Gordo's suggestion that the United Kingdom needs a national motto like France's Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite or the United States' In God We Trust.
Of course a few are sickeningly right on, featuring such hypnotic triggers as "diversity." Many, however, confirm that our national sense of humour survives. Others confirm that the Paines are not alone in their anger about the state of our nation.
Our personal favourites were;
Come and have a go if you think you're 'ard enough
(a football chat in the spirit of Scotland's national motto, nemo me impune lacessit), and
May contain nuts
For my part, I am quite happy with the UK's existing motto (has Brown never looked at his passport?)
Dieu et mon Droit
but I am quite tempted by Steve of Cambridge's sourly spot on suggestion;
Quidvis
which he translates as "whatever."
