Following Argentina¡¯s controversial come-from-behind World Cup victory against Egypt, a match the losing team said was ¡°fixed,¡± one wit on social media summed up the mood.
¡°Not even the British Museum stole so much from Egypt as FIFA did,¡± said user Intrapiernoso in a tweet seen by over 6 million people. It was arguably the best zinger of a tournament that has had dozens of them.
Except the original was not in English. What they actually wrote was, ¡±Ni el Museo Britanico le robo tanto a Egipto, como la FIFA.¡± I don¡¯t speak Spanish and while it doesn¡¯t take a genius to work out what ¡±el Museo Britanico¡± means, the act of puzzling over the unfamiliar grammar robs the remark of its wit.
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