>>>It's happened.
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>>If you only just found out you're probably the last person in the western world to do so :-}
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>>Must admit, although things looked tougher than usual, I thought they would still scrape in under the wire......
>
>I think they'll fix this soon enough, or else the people would notice that they don't notice much difference between functional and non-functional government...
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>Look at Italy - during the 2nd half of the XX century, they had an average of one month a year without a government. Nobody remembers those months as different from others.

HEAVEN is:
Where the mechanics are German
the policemen are English
the cooks are French
the lovers are Italian
and everything is run by the Swiss.

HELL is:
Where the mechanics are French
the policemen are German
the cooks are English
the lovers are Swiss
and everything is run by the Italians.

- anonymous (?)