[PW] Postillion struck by lightning

[T. F. Mills]

On 1 Apr 2008 at 13:54, Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.) wrote:

> Nigel Rees of the BBC has been searching for years for the origin of the
> phrase "our postillion has been struck by lightning", which was quoted
> in a poem by M.H. Longson in PUNCH in 1935 ...  He
> was at a village shop in South Hungary and found a shelf of second-hand
> books that included a "Magyar-English Manual of Conversation" in which
> the sought-after phrase appeared.... 
> Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the elusive
> Magyar-English Manual. ...
> Consider the gauntlet thrown down.

O, yah!  My hovercraft is full of eels.

I remember that Hungarian phrasebook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Z5Sll7uow


T(ranslation) F(uzzy) Mills