Heard in a movie, The Fourth Protocol:

[Wilson Gray]

British speakers:

A. "About the size of a football."

B. "Yes. A Chinese football."


_Chinese football_?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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