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Carod Rovira is the notoriously stupid Spanish Catalan politician who recently achieved international prominence during an official visit to Israel by refusing to honour the memory of Yitzhak Rabin because his tribe’s favourite flag wasn’t flying from the mast. He has inspired several verbs, carodear and carodrizar, the English translation of which is “carod it”, [...]
Lots of people use “beacuase” instead of “because”, but I don’t think anyone writes “Uase” instead of “Oz”.
(I’m having a bit of a Dr Heckle and Mr Jibe day, and mistakenly read this headline as “Anagram hits out at Tory election plans”, which seemed like an interesting tech rehash of traditional rapid response strategies [...]
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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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