A real conversation starter in London pubs, when asked where I'm from and what I do, is to say accurately among many other things I'm a trapper from the north woods, and in my younger days of muscle and exercised sinews, to venture in those lively east-London Irish pubs that the Irish were traitors to the Commonwealth. The regulars caught on well before the bartender yelled "Time, gentlemen" but they were always occasions of great fun for all of us---mostly. Rarely have I found what we call on this side a "typical Englishman." Members may find interesting Franklin's imperial past before ridding himself all of it for American independence in "Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father."
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