“Hoi’ve got a lo-ve-ly bunch o’ coconuts, there they are a-standin’ in a row: big ones, small ones, some as big as yer ‘ead! Give ‘em a twist, a flick o’ the wrist,” that’s what the showman said;

Innocent Dutch retailer welcome page?  
 
Or was someone enjoying reruns of Monty Python’s Flying Circus? 
You decide.

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Le soleil est près de moi;

            Michael and I like to joke that the residents in our section of New Haven like to pretend that they are living in a small, cosmopolitan European city (Michael thinks Copenhagen; I’m more inclined to think a small Northern Italian city like Turin) rather than in New England, given the sheer number of people [...]

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