SETTING: A bar. CAST: Bartender Patrons Lion BARTENDER: What can I get you? PATRON: Draft beer, please. BARTENDER: Here you go. PATRON pays, takes beer back to table. BARTENDER: What can I get you? LION: Actually, do you mind if I rampage in here a bit? BARTENDER: I dunno... a rampaging lion isn't really what the bar scene is all about. LION: I'll let you loot the bodies of any victims too maimed or dead to resist. BARTENDER: Oh, well. In that case, be my ...

Okay, so I'm reading Winston Churchill's account of World War 2. As you may already know, Churchill was Prime MInister of Great Britain during almost the entire war (for part of 1939, just after the Nazi aggression began, he was First Lord of the Admiralty--the civilian chief of the British navy). He gives a detailed, comprehensive account, in six volumes, of everything he knew and did, relating to the War. He reproduces official written policy documents on almost every page. Each volum...