Quote Originally Posted by Whippett View Post

I can just see the American Translation of "A Tale of Two Cities"

The beautiful, flowing "It was the best of days (times?), it was the worst of days(times?)..." with which that book opens would likely be translated to

It was day. Her tits are huge. "Fuck, I'm drunk" he groaned.

Actually this classic was translated in the comic book Sgt. Fury and the Howling Commandos # 37 , way back in '68 I believe it opened with the sentence

"Another *!#*&*! Snafu." (at the time fucking, and even efing were not appropriate in comic books so a more modern translation might actually be "another fucking snafu")

snafu loosely translates to "Situation normal all fucked up."

No ethanol was involved but we're not sure what was inside the cigar.

just for your edification,

Mad