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Mercantilism Rules, OK? | 64 comments (64 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Beware (4.00 / 2)

Police are British? Arresting you if you try to take a picture of anything and so on?

Lovers are Italian? Berlusconi.

I think this joke needs to be updated.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu Mar 18th, 2010 at 12:54:00 PM EST
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Re: Beware (none / 1)

Nah, c'mon, that's too hard on the Italians.

Fair enough on the Brits and their police state, though.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Mar 18th, 2010 at 12:56:49 PM EST
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Updated version (4.00 / 3)

I tell the joke at conferences once in a while, because in offshore wind farm finance, the bankers are French, the engineers are British, the lawyers are German, the manufacturers are Danes, the food is provided by the Dutch and the regulators are eurocrats...

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Mar 18th, 2010 at 01:17:35 PM EST
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