...We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime"
-Edward, Viscount Grey
British Foreign Secretary
August 3, 1914
Smart guy.
Daily Mail
On a much less somber note: a couple years ago FT Alphaville took one of our Headline of the Day awards with:
The rights are going out all over Europe
Sort of a cockney rhyming slang thing without the hemiteleia, lamps become lights which rhymes with rights which...
Ah hell, let's just give 'em the award....
