When I was young, I said, I was vaccinated with religion, but the vaccination didn't take.

But what makes him different from other comic figures are his Moorish customs and his Morisco dialect.

Your culture used to know its job; now you're changing that job, and it has to relearn then re-earn its competence.

But back to the birth of that nutty myth. For many years, it was assumed that the titillating image of incinerated unmentionables—and the scandal of free-boobing gals running wild in the streets—was invented by a scornful male reporter […]