Day archive for February 25th, 2006

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More fine translations from Barcelona council

Posted: February 25th 2006 22:28.

“The official organization of tourist promotion of Barcelona invites you to know and to discover the attractive principals of the city.” Outsource it, for Pete’s sake.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Takeovers

Posted: February 25th 2006 14:34.

So will La Caixa ask Montilla for its money back if Gas Natural fails to get Endesa or ends up paying more than bargained for? (e.on’s bid mini-site includes the revelation in the Discurso de Dr. Wulf H. Bernotat that they have a programme called on.top. If German-based concerns want to appear international, then maybe [...]


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Carnival in court

Posted: February 25th 2006 09:09. Last modified: February 26th 2006 18:35

Here, from 1957, is Cádiz Renfe’s stationmaster using the regional Information and Tourism-crat to get a carnival club to change the title of their mini-show from “The Stationmaster and His Subordinates” to “Infernal Train Emigrants”. Here’s an equally hilarious case from 2004, in which the mayoress and assistant of Archidona (Málaga) obtain a court order [...]


Categories: Les bourgeois, Music, The law court

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Barcelona

  • March 16 1758 

    Fernando III of Barcelona, VI of Castile, establishes a board of commerce to encourage the same, and a commercial tribunal to resolve disputes. He reëstablishes the right of imperiage [I think this must be some kind of feudal arrangement governing property and revenue sharing ...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 16 de març de 1918 El senyor Balaguer, escrivent del Jutjat municipal, sol prendre cafè amb el meu pare. És un senyor molt simpĂ tic. Sempre que em troba, em diu: –Vine al Jutjat! FarĂ s prĂ ctica de la carrera, llegirĂ s papers, veurĂ s coses que t’interessaran… –Deuen obrir molt aviat… –que jo [...]

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