Am on holiday with the family in London. Pure joy — although my 6-year-old daughter, who’d recently heard that black pepper can force a sneeze, took a handful and somehow mashed it into her eye instead; tears ensued; but it was nothing a trip to Hamleys couldn’t cure.
At a very delicious Italian restaurant called Pappa Ciccia, there is a sign outside the basement toilets that carries a nice ode to what economists (and others) call complementarities:
I do not know how regularly Pappa Ciccia changes this message, but I will check back soon in case they have something good to say on market meltdowns or perhaps the ease of fraud.
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That’s a joke that appeared when the European Union was first organized.
You can find the same message printed on the wall at Pinocchio’s in Harvard Square.
this is an old cartoon, but with the with the last line(s) :
The trains are run by the Swiss (Italians).
I heard it this way from Richard Thompson at a concert earlier this year:
In Heaven,
the English greet you at the gates,
the French do the cooking,
the Italians are in charge of the entertainment,
and the Germans arrange everything.
In Hell,
the French greet you at the gates,
the English do the cooking,
the Italians arrange everything,
and the Germans provide the entertainment.
http://jennifersaylor.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/the-joke-i-heard-from-richard-thompson-last-night/
Read the joke in the picture! I first heard the joke at my commencement when our special speaker said it and everybody laughed out loud. It’s a good one!
Clearly the statement about the British police harkens back before RIPA.
I heard it thusly:
“The Canadians had the perfect opportunity. They could have had French cuisine, British culture, and American technology. Instead, they ended up with British cuisine, American culture, and French technology.”
I forgot who was the famous opera singer who once said (I am quoting from memory):
“Germans are born to compose, French are born to dance, Italians are born to sing and Americans are born to … pay for all this”