Day archive for May 31st, 2007

Serbs barter cows for penises

Posted: May 31st 2007 21:14. Last modified: June 1st 2007 10:16

I recently had lunch with a Huescan entrepreneur who sold his dad’s cows in the 50s to buy a car, but this is ridiculous.
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Update: D confirms that Srecko Djordjevic is not an anagram of for example "jive jerks cod cord" and points out that he has form:

A man chopped his own penis off with a [...]

Moroccan censorship

Posted: May 31st 2007 20:53. Last modified: May 31st 2007 21:16

The King has unblocked YouTube, but Moroccan bloggers could do with a hand in encouraging him to restore must-haves like GoogleEarth and LiveJournal. Bono is recording in Fez, and I’m sure he needs this kind of stuff too.

Luvvies

Posted: May 31st 2007 20:50. Last modified: May 31st 2007 20:55

The socialists in Madrid are bitching full time after being slaughtered in the regional and municipal elections. Miguel Sebastián, Zapatero’s disastrous choice as mayoral candidate, has announced his resignation. “What’s he resigning from?” enquires senior national colleague, the excellent Alfonso Guerra, “what was he?” Fellow loser in the regionals, Rafael Simancas: “I’m staying on because [...]

Isabel Pantoja is a poor imitation of a Sligo woman

Posted: May 31st 2007 16:45.

I always knew Spain’s tackiest songster, danceress and money-laundress reminded me of someone.

Immigrant-whacking

Posted: May 31st 2007 16:32. Last modified: May 31st 2007 16:41

Back in September 2004 the Catalan regional police, keen to capture anti-terrorism responsibilities from their federal colleagues, carried out a spectacular raid in Barcelona in which a dozen Pakistanis were arrested and accused of planning al-Qaeda-type attacks on a couple of small towers and the municipal aquarium.
Evidence for this was provided by the suspects’ [...]

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