Not bad for not reading the book yet
Published by on October 31st, 2005
The UK is initiating a rather strict test for would be immigrants looking for a British Passport. On the page linked below, there’s a 15 sample question quiz to give a taste of the types of questions being asked. You must read a book and have basic use of the English language in order to prepare and pass the test. After a cold introduction to the questions, (having not read the book they require), I managed a respectable 10 of 15 correctly answered.
Given that I’ve been here just shy of a year and my knowledge is essentially via cultural osmosis so far, I’d say after a couple of years and that book, I’ll be more convincingly British in my knowledge of this countries’ society, traditions and government than much of the native-born population.
* enter school-yard sneering * neener neener neener… 
Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4391710.stm
Quiz: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4099770.stm
Really though, shouldn’t the fact that I know the four candles / fork handles gag be enough for my inclusion?
smooches~
jEN
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October 31st, 2005 at 6:48 pm
Only two things come out of Wisconsin: cheese wheels and more cheese wheels.
Which one are you?
October 31st, 2005 at 7:24 pm
I am not a Badger. Wisconsin is no birthplace of mine. Therefore, I am neither cheese wheel nor cheese wheel. I did, however, live there for the last decade. Even immersed in the land of badgers, beer and cheese, I retained my identity as being decidedly from many places, not just the one that makes the best deep-fried anything covered in Ranch…
October 31st, 2005 at 11:43 pm
Just to let you know the Decoy now serves breaded deep-fried mac and cheese with (what else?!) Ranch. Thought you would enjoy that.
November 1st, 2005 at 7:43 am
Just as I though: a cheese wheel trying to cartwheel her way out of the pronouncement.
November 1st, 2005 at 11:46 am
Jodi, I know where you’re taking me to lunch when I get back there again…
November 2nd, 2005 at 8:31 pm
Okay I took the test and I am now in the process of being deported!!
Kev