QC opinion

[Mordac]

British Museum is world's largest receiver of stolen goods, says QC

Geoffrey Robertson says it should ‘wash its hands of blood and return Elgin’s loot’

British Museum is world's largest receiver of stolen goods, says QC | Culture | The Guardian

If we hadn't nicked them, the Germans would have them by now...

[OwlHoot]

Well, we all know what a QC opinion is worth.

Itemized invoice from a QC:

For seeing you the other side of the street -- 50 guineas

For crossing the street to greet you -- 200 guineas

For discovering it wasn't you after all -- 20 guineas

TOTAL : 270 guineas, due by return of post

[OwlHoot]

If we hadn't nicked them, the Germans would have them by now...

Or (seriously) the Turks would have literally blown them to smithereens.

Weren't Turkish soldiers, who occupied Greece back then, using the Parthenon as a gunpowder store at the time?