Asterix:
the gall |
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Telegraph
View: German neurosurgeons have catalogued and analysed the hundreds of head injuries suffered in Asterix. Is Tintin next? |
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Telegraph View 7:07PM BST 15 Jun 2011 |
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April
1 having been and gone, and the Germans having recently been shown to
be the world's least humorous nation, we must assume that their study
of Asterix comics, published in the scientific journal Acta Neurochirurgica,
is an entirely serious affair. It catalogues and analyses the hundreds
of head injuries suffered – chiefly by Romans, pirates, Goths and sundry
other non-Gauls – in the course of Asterix and Obelix's spirited defence
of their tiny village. The scientists marvel that these traumatic incidents
were rarely fatal, although amnesia was an frequent consequence. Perhaps
they could turn their attention next to the exact circumstances under
which criminality becomes so epidemic as to force a city's police force
to turn to a bat-suited vigilante – or the mystery of how a boy reporter
from Belgium could ever afford the travel insurance. |
Asterix the Gaul: 'Paf!' |
Comments (vich you vill be paying ze attenshun to): |
You just won't get German humour if you don't know what you're looking for.... It's not exactly Vill of ze Visp you know! |
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