20 Feb
2001
20 Feb
'01
1:14 p.m.
Neil said:
Well, he didn't, of course, because he couldn't. And he lost serious face as a result. So there was nothing stupid about Cetsewayo's little demo - for a handful of men he could amply afford, he soundly humiliated an arrogant colonial power.
I bet that if Avon and Vila heard this, and they had the (record? CD? MP3000 file?) they'd quote The Threepenny Opera (well, Avon would quote it in German, which I don't speak): You're talking to the great, But you are dead. What's the percentage, says Mack the Knife? The bulging pocket makes the easy life.
-(Y)