不是笑話，來自一本關於歐洲曆史的巨著

Europe， A History

by Norman Davies

Pimlico

page 1118,

這是原文：The European Commission issued a growing flood of directives. Taken separately, these directives often looked petty. One concerning the obligatory dimensions of the European comdom (whose size the Italian Government apparently sought to reduce) was not the sole butt of ribaldry.