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	<title>kalebeul &#187; 2004 &#187; April</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun</description>
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		<title>Bilingual blogs</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/30/bilingual-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/30/bilingual-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sheesh! Someone called Luistxo has invented a complicated spec&#8211;read and shiver!&#8211;with which you have to comply in order to have a proper bilingual blog.
Kaleboel has dropped its forked-tongue strategy, having discovered that people get much more excited when you are rude about them in English rather than their own obscure dialect. But that, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People stopping bombs</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/30/people-stopping-bombs/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/30/people-stopping-bombs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe the British have had more practice than the Spanish, but while the Metropolitan Police and MI5 (&#8221;keep garden areas free from dense shrubbery&#8220;) public information campaigns are very professional, here I haven&#8217;t seen anything. Does the Spanish state really have such a low opinion of its citizens&#8217; abilities?
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		<title>Half eel, half snake, all mad</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/30/half-eel-half-snake-all-mad/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/30/half-eel-half-snake-all-mad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just about the only politicians who fear for the nation and for the national religion/myth and language as much as the French are the Malaysians. A couple of days back, Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Rais Yatim said that Malaysians were destroying Bahasa Melayu by using it in a rojak manner, mixing it up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cocaine: long sentence coming up</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/30/cocaine-long-sentence-coming-up/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/30/cocaine-long-sentence-coming-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of sicknesses and venoms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This excerpt from a court statement made on 1928/1/11 is taken from Paco Villar&#8217;s Historia y Leyenda del Barrio Chino (1997):

On the night of the 13th to the 14th of April, 1927, by virtue of information held by the police implicating the individuals Rafael &#8220;Little Madrid&#8221; Garc&#237;a Serra and Mario &#8220;Dove&#8221; Guallart Garc&#237;a in cocaine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boudicca/Boadicea</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/29/boudiccaboadicea/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/29/boudiccaboadicea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mel Gibson has decided to make a movie version of <a href="http://www.theherald.co.uk/15048.shtml" >the legendary sacking of London by Essex Girl</a>. He is apparently hoping to film most of it on Friday night, before the Vomit Comet heads out east once more. <a href="http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Tennyson/tennyson_contents_boadicea.htm" >Tennyson</a> sets the scene quite admirably:]]></description>
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		<title>Foodies</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/29/foodies/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/29/foodies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of meals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article represents one very important reason why you just don&#8217;t want to live in Manhattan, ever. An excerpt:

Even if you have never sampled their handiwork, you may have heard about such haute-cuisine iconoclasts as Heston Blumenthal, the chef at the Fat Duck in Bray, England, which recently earned three Michelin stars for a repertory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrassa murders</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/29/madrassa-murders/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/29/madrassa-murders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of God]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An investigation is underway in Mehmood Booti, Lahore into the bizarre murder of three young men at a failing prayer school:


There was blood splattered on the wall. A boardgame was found near the bodies. Police believe at least two assailants murdered the three brothers because they found two different footprints in blood at several places [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spread of speech</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/29/spread-of-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/29/spread-of-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very interesting Beeb article that suggests that the introduction of sign language increased deafness rates by enabling carriers of hearing impairment genes to get it together more easily. In particular, this comment by research leader Walter Nance opened a new window:

When you think about how the onset of selective marriages among deaf populations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hobswamm</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/hobswamm/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/hobswamm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Llu&#237;s Foix is another of the lost old fools who wander round La Vanguardia gabbling the ultra-conservative mantras of the Franco era, but with a Catalan accent, bien entendu. Lying (sorry: publishing extraordinary errors of fact) about America has been an integral part of La Vanguardia&#8217;s corporate culture for a very long time, and Mr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hetro as the metro</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/hetro-as-the-metro/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/hetro-as-the-metro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of ball games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of the heart]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Metrosexual. The Americans blame French cissies and Brit hacks, but the honours go to Galician AZ Alkmaar footballer, Jos&#233; Fortes Rodriguez:
Some women just don&#8217;t get it. They&#8217;re not used to being turned down. They say: Go on, you want me don&#8217;t you! I say: Am I talking Chinese? I don&#8217;t find you attractive. And then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yo&#8230; &#038; &#8230;yo</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/yo-yo/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/yo-yo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of ball games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think that John McWhorter&#8217;s &#8220;YO!&#8221; has really &#8220;floated to the ends of sentences and lost its shouting intonation, and &#8230; become what linguists would call a pragmatic marker.&#8221; It&#8217;s just like football: there are always a few pragmatic markers hanging around on the margins of matches, and then there are Dutch defenders who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triskaidekaphobia</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/triskaidekaphobia/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/triskaidekaphobia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of music]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, how we all laughed at mad old Arnie! Mr Schoenberg, who was born on the 13th and feared the number all his life (Twelve tones? That&#8217;ll do nicely&#8230;), of course died on the 13th, just when he thought his illness had passed. And now the epidemiologists (c/o Bristol-Myers Squibb (Taiwan) Ltd) seem to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One born a minute</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/one-born-a-minute/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/one-born-a-minute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cows]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of etymology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the barking of the mad dogs of Mechelen recedes, Hispanic PR Newswire mutters in our ear that its market is suffering from a severe case of the proverbs:


Often, excuses come disguised as popular wisdom&#8230; Unfortunately, the sayings nearest and dearest to us, those passed on through generations, have also culturally conditioned us to accept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rivaldo</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/rivaldo/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/28/rivaldo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Of ball games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Of travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Condescending southerner David Green (he&#8217;s Manchester-based) has a piece on the Beeb listing the delights that await Rivaldo when he finally signs for Bolton Wanderers. What many people this morning find difficult to understand is why Rivaldo can&#8217;t be arsed to travel those extra 10 miles up the A666 to the Anchor Ground, home of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kalebirthday</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/27/kalebirthday/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/04/27/kalebirthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Splog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kaleboel is one (1) today, which means you&#8217;re going to start seeing signs of maturity on-this-day items from 2003 in the right hand column of individual posts. I started it for three reasons:


To learn Catalan. At the beginning posts took me ages, but I can now read and write with reasonable facility, although I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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