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020 | _a9780304357895 | ||
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_a828.920208 _bLES |
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100 | _aL'Estrange, Julian | ||
245 | _aThe big book of national insults | ||
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_bCassell _c2002 _aLondon |
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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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