Saturday, August 23, 2014

Have you heard the one "about the two [Scottish] Highlanders watching the evacuation of the beaches at Dunkirk"?

"'Aye, Jock,' says one to the other, 'if the English surrender, it'll be a long war.'"

     Niall Ferguson, "A 'Miracle of Deliverance'?", New York Review of Books 53, no. 19 (30 November 2006):  28.
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