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olde joke: Heaven: The police are British The cooks are French The engineers are German The administrators are Swiss The lovers are Italian Hell: The po
by kyuudou 6y ago
olde joke:
Heaven:
The police are British
The cooks are French
The engineers are German
The administrators are Swiss
The lovers are Italian
Hell:
The police are German
The cooks are British
The engineers are Italian
The administrators are French
The lovers are Swiss
- 082349872349872 6y ago"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." (ascribed to Charles V) That was the sixteenth century. For the twenty-first, what should it be? "I speak english online, russian for scientific sources, chinese for datasheets, and french quand nos aînés n'y seront plus ?"
- 082349872349872 6y agoThe trope is not only olde, but positively archaic. Plutarch says Stratonicus mockingly proposed a law that: The conductors of mysteries and processions be Athenian The organisers of games be Eleians The whipping-boys, should any hellene misbehave, be Spartan