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/ kalebeul / 2003 / 11 / 02 /

Frankfurt, Barcelona, Frankfurt

A new report from Baldie Research, Inc indicates that Spanish bus passengers eat significantly higher quantities of frankfurts and bratswursts than their car-bound compatriots because bars selling these downwardly mobile quasi-Teutonic delicacies are often situated next to bus stops. Frankfurt is at Comerç 12, convenient for both the Ciutadela park and the Picasso museum. Unfortunately [...]

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petanca

Hier wordt driftig gedebatteerd over onze koning, Jordi Pujol. Als hij ons straks na de verkiezingen verlaat, moet hij (a) het bedrijfsleven in, of (b) boules-speler en onbetaalde bouwinspecteur worden, net als alle andere oude mannen?

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parsifal

Ja sabíem que Monsalvat, el castell del greal de Wagner, era al nord d’Espanya, però és solament quan el cel aquí pren un aspecte mes teutònic que es veu que l’arquitecte era el genial Domènech i Montaner (i no, per exemple, en Gaudí, amb el seu miserable palau).

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Vanguardia spelling woes

Apparently the culture section of La Vanguardia has been submitting articles to an automatic correction tool and then publishing them unchecked. So Evgeni Primakov => Vagina Permisivo and catalanista => estalinista. Does that mean that incompetent La Vanguardia ombudsman, Josep Maria Casasús, is going to blame the woes of his colleague, Rafael Ramos, on a [...]

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I think the sherry trade could learn a lot from their cousins in Portugal. But of course that’s only if the sherry trade sees any benefit in visitors to their bodegas. I often wonder if they really do.” It’s the old Spanish paradox of shops whose owners seem prepared to go to quite extraordinary lengths to avoid selling you anything, unless that something is guaranteed to malfunction at the first opportunity. Experiences recounted last night of finally persuading a well known department store to relinquish a sewing machine which immediately jammed, the replacement literally falling to pieces whilst being bagged. Why?

A double reflection makes up the man who was born on the thirteenth day of the moon, lost his
throne on the thirteenth day of the moon, and fought the battle of Waterloo on the thirteenth day of the moon
:

I wonder if Josephine’s astrological babblings didn’t cause Napoleon’s natural military interest in the moon to be unduly romanticised.


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