|   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)  |