Or when Caesar, while crossing a river, frees a ruddy slave, and someone
remarks: "Il affranchit le rubicond." They must have stayed up nights.
At 07:07 PM 8/6/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>The best Asterix moments, for me, are the uncanny translations of puns - a
>senator calls (in French) for a "seance" (session / sitting), and is told to
>sit down; in English, he demands a "plebiscite", and is shouted down:
>"somebody get that pleb a seat!". There are many, many more like this...
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