rivercityvibe   “Puerile, smutty, schoolboy nonsense” – My Mom

There is a scene in the classic war film Waterloo in which the Duke of Wellington interrogates a soldier who has been caught stealing a piglet for food. The soldier explains that he was merely trying to return the beast to its mother. Wellington angrily asks the soldier if he knows what the punishment for looting livestock is. The soldier, without missing a beat says, “Stoppage of gin, sir?”

“Damn you! It’s Death!” says Wellington, then turning to an aide-de-campe says, “Raise this man to Corporal. He knows how to defend a weak position!”

This post is about a guy who would likely have made sergeant in Wellington’s army.

Swedish strippers? Awesome!

It seems that McDonald’s have got their panties in a wad about a neon sign advertising a strip club in Falkoping in the south of Sweden and are considering legal action. The Local, tells us:

“We’re going to send him a letter. In our view this is clearly a breach of our trademark,” McDonald’s spokesman Claes Eliasson told The Local.

But the strip tease club owner, Dragan Bratic, denied that there was any likeness.

“The sign has nothing to do with McDonald’s. It is two breasts with nipples. Anyone can see that,” Bratic told Swedish online newspaper GT.se.

When asked about the name McDragan’s, Bratic replied that the Mc in fact stands for motorcycle and bears no relation to the Mc in McDonald’s.

“I’m not Irish, I’m a Yugoslav. And I don’t sell hamburgers, I sell live striptease,” he insists.

By the way, by the time I had got through reading the article for the first time, I realized it was an April Fool’s joke (those ZANY Swedes!). I had all the Waterloo stuff in my head though and it seemed a shame to waste it.