“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
1. (N., hippy slang): Money. Cash. Moolah. Wodge. Client money.
2. (N.) A carbohydrate which was more or less all they had to eat in England before Sir Walter Raleigh went to Guyana.
French bakery laws
The baguette is such an important constitutional baton[1] that:
Parisienne bakers (being boulangers a Paris, and not bakers of parisiennes) are ob;liged by law not to all take their holidays at the same time, and are divided into “Juillet” and “Août” teams[2]
It is forbidden by law dating from 1921 for any boulanger to sell bread seven days in a row. No idea how that assists the constitution, but there you have it.[3]
