Dig up an actual Kop quote.

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 	Elven race, and will go out of their way to cause trouble
 	for Elves at any time.
 *kop*
-	The typical policeman of 1920's movies, the Keystone Kop was
+	The Kops are a brilliant concept.  To take a gaggle of inept
-	modeled like the English "bobby", with a long brass-buttoned
+	policemen and display them over and over again in a series of
-	overcoat, carrying long nightsticks that he (more often than
+	riotously funny physical punishments plays equally well to the
-	not) whapped himself with, rather than anyone else.  The
+	peanut gallery and the expensive box seats.  People hate cops.
-	Keystone Kops were very slapstick-like, relying on speed and
+	Even people who have never had anything to do with cops hate
-	numbers to achieve their comedy, rather than sophisticated
+	them.  Of course, we count on them to keep order and to protect
-	wit.
+	us when we need protecting, and we love them on television shows
+	in which they have nerves of steel and hearts of gold, but in
+	the abstract, as a nation, collectively we hate them.  They are
+	too much like high school principals.  We're very happy to see
+	their pants fall down, and they look good to us with pie on
+	their faces.  The Keystone Kops turn up--and they get punished
+	for it, as they crash into each other, fall down, and suffer
+	indignity after indignity.  Here is pure movie satisfaction.
+
+	The Kops are very skillfully presented.  The comic originality
+	and timing in one of their chase scenes requires imagination
+	to think up, talent to execute, understanding of the medium,
+	and, of course, raw courage to perform.  The Kops are madmen
+	presented as incompetents, and they're madmen rushing around
+	in modern machines.  What's more, the machines they were operating
+	in their routines were newly invented and not yet experienced
+	by the average moviegoer.  (In the early days of automobiles,
+	it was reported that there were only two cars registered in all
+	of Kansas City, and they ran into each other.  There is both
+	poetry and philosophy in this fact, but most of all, there is
+	humor.  Sennett got the humor.)
+		[ Silent Stars, by Jeanine Basinger ]
 kos
 	"I am not a coward!" he cried.  "I'll dare Thieves' House
 	and fetch you Krovas' head and toss it with blood a-drip at