While Baron Cohen targeted a single country, the Australian comedian Santo Cilauro crafted an entirely new, but undeniably post-Second World, country to perpetrate similar acts of anti-branding. As a complement to the wildly popular faux travel guide Molvanîa: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry (2004), Cilauro created the eerily-Boratesque Zladko ('ZLAD!') Vladcik.
But he carried all sail till the rotten main-sheet parted at the boom, and when he came up in the wind to lower the sail the main throat halyard refused to unreeve.
The line here rises in the up direction, for the most part on a 1 in 132 gradient, and three spring-operated catch points—Basildon West, Basildon and Vange—are provided at intervals on the up line between the two stations, to derail any runaway wagons of a loose-coupled freight train.
With all the willful eagerness of a child she set her heart on that visit, and from morning till night she would talk with her little boys of the journey to what seemed to her the brightest, most sacred spot on earth, next to her present home.
