When the Gauls attacked Rome, he hit upon the plan of pelting the soldiers with twopennies to make them believe they had plenty to eat.

[…] a world where, taking a stroll with Miranda in a Denver mall, we pass a sweet-faced teenage girl whose T-shirt reads OVERWORKED AND UNDERFUCKED, […]

After this Martin became very despondent and withdrew to the lorry to console himself with a bottle of babash (moonshine).

The Veronan equivalent of marriage by a judge in a civil ceremony, which ought to have been available to Romeo and Juliet when their families failed to provide the necessary support, would seem a cold and arid setting for a wedding, compared to the lavish ceremony which a loving community might have made available to them.