Marco Cimarosti scripsit:

> Seriously speaking, as modern devilries such as rock'n'roll, electricity and
> blue jeans are making their ways also to our remote European lands,

Rock'n'roll I grant you is American, but useful electricity was the
work of a Serbian, and blue jeans were designed by a native of Latvia,
using cloth de Nimes.

> Well, but AFAIK the "nonexistent 'Pete'" is an American guy. So I guess he'd
> rather settle the matter by drawing his colts and shooting dead the felon in
> the town's saloon, as usual in traditional American society. :-)

Pete's from New York, where we use submachine guns instead.

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