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Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder, which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."

— Alan Coren The Sanity Inspector (1974)

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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.

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I rang room service, and asked for a bottle of Perrier, because while I was asleep someone had come in and carpeted my throat.

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Disneyworld ... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

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