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Feb. 28th, 2025 02:28 pmВикипедия вряд ли у кого-то ассоциируется с юмором.
Но иногда попадаются брильянты. Что первый, что второй случай - абсолютно, гомерически смешны!
(из статьи про монументальный труд Черчилля о Второй мировой войне)
Wood was engaged as a proofreader after an early typo that the French Army was "the poop of the French nation". Kelly wrote that this was "too near the truth to let it go" and that after a furious midnight call from Churchill to the publishers errata slips had to be included explaining that the intended word had been "prop"; he commented that it was reminiscent of the newspaper account of Queen Victoria "pissing over Clifton Suspension Bridge to the cheers of her loyal subjects".
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Но иногда попадаются брильянты. Что первый, что второй случай - абсолютно, гомерически смешны!
(из статьи про монументальный труд Черчилля о Второй мировой войне)
Wood was engaged as a proofreader after an early typo that the French Army was "the poop of the French nation". Kelly wrote that this was "too near the truth to let it go" and that after a furious midnight call from Churchill to the publishers errata slips had to be included explaining that the intended word had been "prop"; he commented that it was reminiscent of the newspaper account of Queen Victoria "pissing over Clifton Suspension Bridge to the cheers of her loyal subjects".
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