Just ahead of Episode Twelve of Three Men on the Bummel, thank you again for your kind comments about this caper and all our other Tales for Our Time - and the rest of our content on this The Mark Steyn Club's eighth birthday. Like many readers, Fraser Sutherland, an English Steyn Clubber, particularly appreciated Jim Holman's comments yesterday:
I remember watching The Mark Steyn Show on GB News and remarking: 'This guy (MS, I had never previously heard of him!) really believes what he says, that's a first for British television, dear God, he really does.' So I really second Jim's remarks, particularly the final paragraph and am glad Jim Holman wrote what he did.
Thank you, Fraser. As I have come to appreciate, life is far too short to say what you don't believe.
Eight years ago, we launched this series of audio adventures on a whim, threw it together somewhat hastily, and learned on the job. So I'm enormously grateful for listeners' appreciation of it. Our current tale is a Jerome K Jerome comic classic of minimal plot and maximum digressions. In tonight's episode, our heroic trio find themselves in Carlsbad and discover a protean multiculti utopia:
From Prague we travelled to Nuremberg, through Carlsbad. Good Germans, when they die, go, they say, to Carlsbad, as good Americans to Paris. This I doubt, seeing that it is a small place with no convenience for a crowd... Here you may hear more languages spoken than the Tower of Babel could have echoed. Polish Jews and Russian princes, Chinese mandarins and Turkish pashas, Norwegians looking as if they had stepped out of Ibsen's plays, women from the Boulevards, Spanish grandees and English countesses, mountaineers from Montenegro and millionaires from Chicago, you will find every dozen yards.
What, no Somalis?
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