L’ús més original d’un Chupa Chup: en l’educació fonològica.

El meu menjar favorit nadalenc és la xirivia rostida en una salsa de bolets. La xirivia és bastant barata aquí, perquè només es dóna a les vaques. En Agricultura elemental española (Madrid, 1933) José Dantín Cereceda va escriure:
410. Chirivía.- La chirivía (Pastinaca sativa L.), con sus dos variedades P. s., var.edulis, y P. S., var. [...]

On Saturday evening a 61-year old publican shot two Portuguese gypsies dead from the balcony of his flat in Terrassa for parking their Ford Transit opposite and sitting around drinking and playing the electric organ.
A policeman here once threatened to arrest me for doing roughly the same, but this is Douglas Adams in So Long, [...]

When I was small I used to hang around a container port, hoping to be picked up by a passing pirate ship, and it is with a similar contempt for danger that I now traipse across Spanish building sites. Unfortunately, signs like the one on the left are generally an indication that (legally speaking) the [...]

Això és la llista dels llibres que més s’estan venent dins el grup específic de codis postals que constitueix Microsoft. Es diu un purchase circle e hi ha mes aquí. A Anchorage (Alaska) es llegeix sobre escapar, viatjar, sobreviure, els gossos y Microsoft .Net.
Via Scobleizer.

I’m just trying to work out what will now happen to the hypothetical French girl whose parents tattoo “Dubya is Love” on her forehead at birth. Will she be able to attend school normally, or will she have to wear the hijab? An interesting interim solution would be to let everyone wear what the hell [...]

My impression is that there’s still a lot of it going on here – banking regulation seems lax and there’s always someone who’ll turn a blind eye – but here’s a technique I don’t remember coming across before in the gambling industry: offering to pay lottery winners a premium in order to be able to [...]

Ms Tilden-Davis was in Howling 4, so she should have known what to expect. (Early reports quote Ms TD being lifted onto the stretcher saying: “What looked like nothing more than a harmless ripple turned out to be a full-blown crime wave.” The hippopotamus is undergoing treatment for a severe case of the groans.)

What with wars and everything, this is a turn-up for the books. The November poll (Word) of the national stats institute, the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas asked the Spanish people how much they liked Johnny Foreigner:

a lot

quite a lot

a little

not at all

don’t know

didn’t answer

Americans

4.9

35.0

32.2

16.1

9.8

1.8

Argentines

14.9

58.6

13.3

3.5

8.0

1.8

Brazilians

11.3

54.1

16.9

3.9

11.7

2.1

Chileans

8.0

51.5

20.4

5.7 [...]

Ernest Benach en la seva utopia, demostrant que el surrealisme no és el domini exclusiu dels cosmopolites.

The Peckham chapter of the Taliban and a horde of Yorkshire lesbians are going to be fighting it out here for the next few days so , to remind you of how good life was before Reagan, is Radio Tirana’s old call sign.

A brief take on els pastorets.

Aquesta foto d’en Marc, fet per un tub de cartró, és una imitació de Le faux miroir (1935) d’en Magritte, que possiblement estava pensant en la Porte fenêtre a Collioure (1914) d’en Matisse. Altre bon exemplar d’aquesta època és la Venus B (1933) de Kazimierz Podsadecki, i peces modernes que m’agraden inclouen aquesta foto anònima [...]

A free choral arrangement of an old French carol.

Fleshbot quotes from the blurb of a moving picture that is unlikely to be showing at a cinema near you:
In the mythical realm of Diddle Earth, diminutive yet delectable Throbbit Dildo Saggins is sent by Smirnoff the Wizard to destroy the legendary G-String – most powerful weapon in the land.
We know, we do, and we [...]

I suggested to Mark Liberman the other day that the word Frank turns up in western Arabic in the C8th. A provisional apology is due because the first reference I’ve found in a hitherto brief search is not until the first half of the C9th, when ʻAbd al-Malik b Habīb (display problems?) of Granada uses [...]

un problema
Del MediaDailyNews:
[Un] estudi … [ha revelat] que els espectadors [americans] han d’aguantar un increïble 52 minuts de basura promocional durant un bloc típic de tres hores de prime time en les quatre cadenes principals. Aquesta xifra és 8% més que en 2000 i 36% més que en 1991… La durada mitja dels blocs [...]

Sorry, but anyone tell me whether the following William Dunbar quote refers to the long battle by Dorset priests to rid their churches of scrumpy ‘n’ western, to yet another destruction of Leicester City FC’s charity team, or to skirmishes between farmers and those legendary mint tea-crazed monsters?
Done is a battell on the dragon blak;
Our [...]

Si has enviat una targeta a algú a Anglaterra aquest Nadal, hauràs hagut d’utilitzar un codi alfanumèric de set caràcters com PO16 7DZ. Aquest codi s’utilitza per a dividir els 27 milions de bústies al Regne Unit com segueix:

exemple

unitat geogràfica

nombre

PO

àrea (Portsmouth en aquest exemple)

124

PO16

districte

2.932

PO16 7

sector

9.750

PO16 7DZ

unitat

±1,75M

Si pagues l’alta tarifa (±EUR 0,40) hi ha una possibilitat [...]

Disputes that in England might be settled by single combat (thanks Transblawg) are often resolved here using anonymous notes left in the entrance hall:
We request of a resident of this building (specifically of the rear façade) that out of consideration for the [right to] rest of the remaining residents she moderate her tone of voice [...]