Monday is July 4th, on which Americans celebrate their independence from good taste and in some cases, fingers (fireworks go "Boom!"). It's the one day of the year that common sense is replaced by drunken rounds of Marco Polo and dangerous and unnecessary pyrotechnics.
It's all ooh's and aah's until the Catherine Wheel breaks from its moorings and rolls down the hillside, as screaming children and inebriated fools in porkpie flag hats run for cover.
Or at least, that's what I'm always secretly praying for.
In the spirit of the holiday, we've decided to honor some of our favorite all-American patriots!
Okay, some of these guys may not actually be American, and we may be stretching the use of "patriot" a bit, but these are all guys we have no problem saluting (and they can pull off red, white, and blue).
Gabriel Martin, The Patriot
Played by Australian Heath Ledger,...
It's all ooh's and aah's until the Catherine Wheel breaks from its moorings and rolls down the hillside, as screaming children and inebriated fools in porkpie flag hats run for cover.
Or at least, that's what I'm always secretly praying for.
In the spirit of the holiday, we've decided to honor some of our favorite all-American patriots!
Okay, some of these guys may not actually be American, and we may be stretching the use of "patriot" a bit, but these are all guys we have no problem saluting (and they can pull off red, white, and blue).
Gabriel Martin, The Patriot
Played by Australian Heath Ledger,...
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