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Capitalist Limerick [Dan Collins]

In the low-tax Swiss canton of Zug,

Lived a man up whose ass dwelt no bug;

Folks asked, would he care

For a new derriere?

“No!” answered the insolent thug.

7 Replies to “Capitalist Limerick [Dan Collins]”

  1. happyfeet says:

    Zug lies at the foot of the Zugerberg, “which rises gradually, its lower slopes thickly covered with fruit trees.”

    Check it – two weeks after Sep 11:

    In 2001 eleven members of the local (cantonal) parliament and three members of the (cantonal) government were shot and killed in Zug by the assassin Friedrich Leibacher.

    Read more if the idea of a “Day of rage for the Zug mafia” is at all intriguing…

    Kinda makes you wonder what other stories were swallowed up in the penumbra of Sep 11…

  2. happyfeet says:

    “several failed marriages to women from the Dominican Republic” is a phrase you don’t hear every day either…

  3. mishu says:

    Too bad the name is pronounced ‘TsÅ«g’. Otherwise, not bad.

    mishu

    -a former Swiss resident.

  4. McGehee says:

    Isn’t Zug Buzz Lightyear’s arch-nemesis?

  5. Major John says:

    So he would be from Canton Zurg, McGehee?

  6. McGehee says:

    Everybody knows the R is silent.

  7. Major John says:

    I knew I was in trouble when all my German instructors turned out to be Austrians…

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