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020 _a9780304357895
082 _a828.920208
_bLES
100 _aL'Estrange, Julian
245 _aThe big book of national insults
260 _bCassell
_c2002
_aLondon
300 _a328
520 _a"Hail xenophobia! This is the anti-UN, a decided call against the brotherhood of nations, a poisonous feast of insults from one countryman to another. No nation is exempt: If anyone is born a German, God has sufficiently punished him, claim the Russians. "Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich," asserted writer H.G. Wells. And, Joan Rivers has something bad to say about the British: "Boy George is all England needs-another queen who can't dress."
650 _aMaxims
650 _aQuotations
650 _aInvective
650 _aHumor
650 _aEthnic
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