What is it with European people and bottomless ducks?
Are you sure you are ready for enlightened bottomless Europe?
That is good.
My favorite part was this near the end,
And, on a sign printed next to his artifacts, I noticed a caption claiming, "The police consciously accepted the reputation for incompetence they developed with the public to keep up their strategy of repeated failed handovers, in order to wear the extortionist down"
Maybe just because it reminds me so much of
All the Federales say
We could have had him any day
We only let him go so long
Out of kindness, I suppose
There's a great world service podcast on the north Korean Sony hack that I've been listening to while driving to where the trout live.
Donald duck is also huge in Sweden for some reason
I always assumed it was a sex thing and I didn't think I wanted the details.
4: or Graves's "The Persian Version:
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
As for the Greek theatrical tradition
Which represents that summer's expedition
Not as a mere reconnaisance in force
By three brigades of foot and one of horse
(Their left flank covered by some obsolete
Light craft detached from the main Persian fleet)
But as a grandiose, ill-starred attempt
To conquer Greece - they treat it with contempt;
And only incidentally refute
Major Greek claims, by stressing what repute
The Persian monarch and the Persian nation
Won by this salutary demonstration:
Despite a strong defence and adverse weather
All arms combined magnificently together.
I had forgotten the key, charming detail of the whole Dagobert story - although his schemes reliably confounded the police, they also very often confounded him and lost the cash.
8 did come to mind and I am pretty sure that it was written in response to Dieppe..