One of the joys of speaking two languages is that you get far more opportunities for puns than monolinguists do.
It was with delight, then – and with a language hiccough mid-way – that I saw the following on the El País website earlier today: 
The word verse flipped my mind into English and conjured the wonderful image of Obama and McChrystal having a flyting contest.
don't confuse the narrator 
1. I’d love to participate in a flyting, but whenever I issue a challenge to people who claim to be poets I get silence in response.
2. Only in the USA could McChrystal be a real surname, surely.
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1. Heh. You rose to the bait!
2.You mean you don’t think the “Mc” in “McChrystal” means he comes from a long line of Scots, and should therefore be skilled at flyting?
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