15 Meaning the Yank way,
16 aWhere everybody owned the same spotlessly clean two-story house bon the same perfectly clean, tree-lined street in the suburbs,
17 And drove the same enormous station wagon with fake wood on the sides,
18 cAnd smiled the same bright cheerful smile all the time,
19 dAnd always solved all their problems right before the last commercial,
20 eWhich proved just how great it was to be a Yank,
21 Living in the land of the Yanks.
CHAPTER 1441 The Yanks also had a lot of music to talk about,
2 Since they had just invented something,
3 Something not quite respectable,
4 fSomething that maybe wasn't completely okay,
5 gSomething called rock'n'roll,
6 Which a lot of Yanks didn't understand,
7 And therefore hated,
8 Which is the American Way,
9 hNot to mention the fact that it probably came from black people,
10 Because it was so suggestive about,
11 You know,
12 iSex,
13 Which wasn't allowed in jAmerica during the Eisenhower administration,
14 Because it might wake up Ike.
15 And so it came about that the Yanks had a bunch of new stars,
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16 kWith names like Chuck Berry,
17 lAnd Elvis Presley,
18 mAnd Pat Boone,
19 Which would change the world someday,
20 In the not too distant future.
CHAPTER 1451 And speaking of the nworld,
2 Every Yank could go see the world,
3 On vacations,
4 When they could dress up in Bermuda shorts and sunglasses,
5 With a whole bunch of cameras,
6 And go to Europe,
7 oJust to see why everything was so much better back home in America,
8 pNot to mention getting some pictures of the countries the Yanks had saved,
9 qOr had clobbered and then rebuilt,
10 Whichever it was.
11 And so they could get on buses with a whole bunch of other Yanks,
12 rAnd go on tours of cities and museums and all that stuff,
13 And talk it all over with each other and the natives,
14 In a loud Yank accent,
15 In English,
16 Just so everyone would know that they were Yanks,
17 And wouldn't confuse them with somebody else,
18 Such as somebody who hadn't saved their bacon,
19 Twice,
20 Which no Yank would actually say out loud, of course,
21 Unless the service was lousy,
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