Day archive for March 21st, 2006

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Columbus beaten by Ming

Posted: March 21st 2006 19:57. Last modified: March 17th 2009 12:49

It doesn’t really matter whether Columbus was that posterior construct, Catalan, or not; the Mings got there first, using trained otters.

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Categories: Late Middle, Splog, The sea

Trebucheting China from the moon

Posted: March 21st 2006 15:51. Last modified: March 21st 2006 16:07

There’s a ways and means discussion over at MemeFirst. If Spain hadn’t more or less abandoned its space programme–mentioned in the Voz de Galicia edition plugging Franco’s hon doc–we’d have been able to sell Chávez stuff like this. Not.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Honorary doctorates

Posted: March 21st 2006 15:29. Last modified: June 5th 2007 10:43

If Spanish universities are giving honorary degrees to one thug and taking them off another, does that mean there’s a finite supply of funny hats? What is this thing universities have with dictators?
(More dodgy awards: Westminster, Sindh, anywhere in China or Korea (1, 2), Michigan State or–worst by far–Long Island.)


Categories: Les bourgeois

1/3 French self-declared racists

Posted: March 21st 2006 14:28.

The way this is going it’ll soon be respectable to be a Francophobe (which of course one is not).


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Boohbah

Posted: March 21st 2006 13:49.

Here’s something (via Lucia@PolifĂ´nica) to palliate the onset of spring which, as usual, is turning out to be fairly knackering.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Winners and losers

Posted: March 21st 2006 13:43.

I didn’t know I even had Premium Bonds, but apparently I’ve just won £50 on Ernie, or Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment for long. Meanwhile Buddha has run away with £500,000. It’s that destiny thing, dammit.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

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