Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables
of England in the 19th century,
and it was called wiff-waff.
And there, I think, you have the difference
between us and the rest of the world.
Other nations, the French,
looked at a dining table
and saw an opportunity to have dinner;
we looked at it and saw an opportunity
to play wiff-waff.
Boris Johnson
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