Two hundred year old joke

From Dr. Sanity:

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"...here's one of the many stories Lincoln famously told to entertain his fellow lawyers on the long nights riding the circuit on the Illinois frontier:"

"One of the leaders of the American Revolution -- I forget now who it was, Ethan Allen, perhaps -- visited England after the war. His host entertained him comfortably, but was the sort of fellow who constantly disparaged America and Americans generally (no, it didn't start with Bush), and never could get over the fact we had beaten them in the war. "

"To amuse himself and to twit his American guest, the host hung a print of George Washington on the wall of his outhouse. It had been there for a few days, and the host knew the American must have seen it, but he had said nothing. "

"Finally overcome by curiosity, the host asked his guest what he thought of the picture of Washington."

" "It is most appropriately hung," the American replied. "Nothing ever made the British shit like the sight of George Washington." "