Moving on 20 years to December 2011, when Cameron used Britain's veto to block an EU-wide treaty, the Sun greeted the news with a splash headlined "Up Eurs" with a photoshopped picture of "bulldog" Cameron giving a two-fingered salute.
"I guess the plan was always to get Morgan and Butler in as fast as possible, so I salute England's early handing over of wickets to the Aussies, it's all part of a grand design to score 120 off the last ten overs.
There should have been a 100-gun salute.
Were Major John Howard alive today, he would no doubt stiffen his ageing back, drop his walking stick and stand to attention in front of a glass museum case containing his commanding officer's uniform, to give a brisk salute.
Flying high over the Derwent, our tiny aircraft, bound for the Tasmanian south-west wilderness, almost tipped its wings in salute.
In these otherwise murderous and mean-spirited times, that is something to salute.
Oh, Jed Mercurio, you clever but very evil genius, I salute you.
The crowd rose as one to salute a majestic cricketer as Kumar Sangakkara returned to Lord's majestic pavilion, 112 runs to his name, his team in a dominant position.
Spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation movies, John Wayne: all get their salute as the two men change the purpose of their travels from the hunt for profitable criminals to the finding and freeing of Django's wife, who is still enslaved on a Mississippi plantation owned by the capricious Mr Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).
It was a salute, one soldier said, "for a successful return".
"That's what I see and I want to salute you.
