A Little Eastern Bloc Levity
Paul Frankenstein links to a nice little Idle Words essay about living in Warsaw which includes this amusing line: "But by simply adopting the Polish national motto ('it could always get worse'), the prudent visitor can inoculate himself against all manner of disappointment."

My friend Doug Arellanes, meanwhile, offers up the 1977 very-Commie review of "Lord of the Rings," which appeared either in a Polish newspaper or the Czech daily, Rude Pravo, (which means Red Truth, and shouldn't be confused with the post-Velvet Revolutionary paper, Rude Kravo, which means Red Cow.)
- posted by Amy @ 3/15/2004 09:25:00 PM