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The war on arsematrons

Posted: April 14th 2009 09:31. Last modified: April 14th 2009 10:17

After years of shilly-shallying, will France finally stand up to American fartpower?

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Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Music, Vehicles

What have racing cyclists and American Black Vultures got in common?

Posted: March 28th 2009 09:13. Last modified: March 28th 2009 09:18

Urohydrosis.

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Categories: Birds, Les bourgeois, Vehicles

The cycling Cartesian

Posted: March 1st 2009 17:19.

If you haven’t got a head, you’re going to need some legs.

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Vehicles

Potential accordion purchase

Posted: February 25th 2009 23:48. Last modified: February 27th 2009 18:05

This is an option now the Casio kiddieboard is dead and there’s not enough time for the barrel organ.

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Music

West African joke about white people in snowstorms

Posted: January 9th 2009 09:46. Last modified: January 9th 2009 10:09

The last time the issue came up, my dad rated Percy Shaw as one of the 20th century’s most under-appreciated inventors, on the grounds that his cat’s eye road studs have saved more lives on British roads than any other single measure.
Ojos de gato or tachas reflectantes are not (widely) used on Spanish [...]

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Of faggots and Fords

Posted: April 3rd 2006 13:17. Last modified: February 12th 2010 14:25

Unlike motorcars, bicycles take you through village centres and allow you to park outside at any interesting-looking drinking hole you encounter. Friday afternoon on my way up-country for a weekend engagement I stopped at a village café in the mountains between Montseny and Montserrat, where a nice but weary barmaid was serving brandy to some [...]

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Catalan and north-eastern Jaén speech

Posted: February 14th 2005 13:13. Last modified: April 30th 2009 09:27

Iberian linguistics is even more complex than I had thought.

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Categories: Late Middle, Vehicles

Barcelona-Cadiz, part 1

Posted: January 29th 2005 22:25. Last modified: April 30th 2009 09:26

Brief report on carnival, goat Ă  l’africaine, and a night out with the Belarussian putimafia.

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Categories: The circle of lands, Vehicles

Daisy, Daisy, give me your serpent, do!

Posted: February 22nd 2004 23:19. Last modified: April 30th 2009 09:28

One of the proudest memories of my musical career is of a mission undertaken on behalf of the Dutch nation to a Swedish folk festival, at which a programme of James Last covers was performed to accompany the wobblings of a display team of penny-farthing riders. Some believe that the deep affinity that exists between [...]

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Categories: Music, Vehicles

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  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paĂ­s tenim un costum molt curiĂłs. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que Ă©s mĂ©s important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastĂ­ssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat Ă©s superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici Ă©s monòton i pesat, però tĂ© moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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