Common Market.
Collapsed on the cold pavement in front of the Prisunic Mozart, two Englishmen in their thirties, surrounded by beer bottles and tightly pressed against a warm dog, are doing the Channel : Rule Britannia !
Foreign Affairs.
Protesting against the French nuclear tests in the Pacific, the union of the ladies-in-waiting of Australia, at Canberra, has decided to boycott the lingerie fine made in France. : Melbourne and Sydney will follow the movement. The singer Madonna and Miss Stone had already taken the lead. Will the Queen of England find herself without dessous ?
Political Economy (or Maastricht Treaty)
“ Her husband who does not earn anything
Does not give her ther means
To have everything she demands ;
At last she does a faux pas
And in order to have Holland
She gives the Netherlands.”
Military economy (or the storks are back)
“ This place so hot ... And who could set alight in one moment the detonator cords of all
the arquebuses. ”
Criticism :
“ That I lack gravity
That I cannot be read in class ?”
Autocriticism :
“ Good things, middling ones, even more bad ones
What can I do about it ? Thus it goes with every book.”
Morality, by Pierre Le Loyer (born in 1550)
“ The stallion follows the mare, the bull loves the cow
And the ram attaches himself to the ewe alone ”.
Translation : Dagmar Coward Kuschke (Tübingen)
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