Google has once again snubbed England's dragon-slaying patron saint, despite our threat (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/26/google_st_george_snub/) back in 2005 to take our porn search queries elsewhere.

Indeed, while El Reg today proudly celebrates this most English of days, Google (http://www.google.co.uk/) remains resolutely St George-free. We were going to email the search monolith to request the usual half-baked excuses, but decided instead to fuel up our impressive collection of Spitfires and Hurricanes for a low-level strafing run on the Googleplex.

While we apologise in advance to Google for any inconvenience this may cause, we hereby give warning that if next year we don't see a bloke-with-a-lance-slaying-a-dragon masthead, we'll send in our ultimate deterrent: a cybernetic army of tap-dancing Heather Mills-McCartneys.

Consider yourselves duly warned. ®

Related stories

• Google tips hat to St George - finally (23 April 2008)

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/23/google_saint_george/

• Dragon marauds London, escapes arrest (25 May 2007)

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/25/london_dragon_cops/

• iGoogle launch fingered in user data loss furore (2 May 2007)

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/02/igoogle_launch/

• Google in St George snub outrage (26 April 2005)

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/26/google_st_george_snub/