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Fresh (News) Fruits for Rotting Vegetables

August 1, 2006 at 2:47 PM | 0 Comments

August isn't only a slow news month in the U.S. Over in Central Europe, they call it "cucumber season"; meaning, that's when news organizations over there run articles on how it's going to be a bumper crop of cucumbers this year. No, not asparagus--the communists considered it to be a bourgeois vegetable and the asparagus fields were torn up after the Second World War.

Except, as Pestiside points out, cucumber season this year happens to have a fair amount of real news, as their coverage of recent Central European events demonstrates. To wit: The Slovaks elected a Prime Minister who bears an uncanny resemblance to the lead singer of Madness. The Romanians, meanwhile, have published a video game featuring battles with the Hungarians in space--presumably because space is free of feral dogs--and, best of all, the current Polish president chose his twin brother to be Prime Minister. That last one sounds a lot like an episode of Young and the Restless, but indeed, they are all true. Sure beats coverage of shark attacks, right?

[Image via nao-cha/Flickr]

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