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Join the roomAlan Coren foi um escritor, humorista, apresentador e satirista inglês. Foi um participante regular no programa de perguntas e respostas da BBC Radio The News Quiz e capitão de time no programa de televisão da BBC Call My Bluff. Coren foi editor da Punch por quase uma década; posteriormente, editou a revista The Listener.
“In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.”
“A long, soft sigh, one of those very Italian sighs that express so much, that say "Ah, signor, if only this world were an ideal world, what would I not give to be able to do as you ask, we should sit together in the Tuscan sunshine, you and I, just two men together, and we should drink a bottle of the good red wine, and we should sing, ah, how we should sing."”
“Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it…and since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.”
“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."”
“Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.”
“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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