The Iraqi Misinformation Minisiter speaks about ACO in Nadsat!

Master Will Altemose, of Tunkhannock, Pa., seems to be the most promising lad of his age in the country. His exploit of nonchalantly chopping up a she bear and two cubs the other day marks him as a person of courage and resource. On the day in question Master Altemose was chopping wood, and not prospecting for bear. What ursicides he would have committed if he had been really loaded for b’ar can only be imagined. We commend the study of Willie, the Bear King of Tunkhannock, to those sad-orbed wailers who insist that the boys of America are a degenerate and cigarette-ruined race.

A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call into lodging-houses in order to recruit go-alongs for thieving expeditions: boys are delighted [they] think it an honour to go with a swell-mob.

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