Monday, February 26, 2007

European Identities

This was posted at one of the Yahoo photo-groups I belong to, I thought it was pretty funny. Credited to musician Richard Thompson, twixt-song banter at a concert.

In heaven:
The English meet you at the door,
The French do the cooking,
The Italians provide the entertainment,
And the Germans organize everything.

In hell:
The French meet you at the door,
The English do the cooking,
The Germans provide the entertainment,
And the Italians organize everything.

3 comments:

  1. Those are sterotypes at their best. Quite funny.

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  2. In my heaven, can the Italians do the cooking?

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  3. The version I heard was, in Heaven

    The police are English
    The mechanics German
    The cooks are French,
    The lovers Italian
    and its all organized and run by the Swiss.

    In hell:
    The police are German
    The mechanics French
    the cooks are English
    The lovers are Swiss
    And its all organized and run by the Italians

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