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How many spokes should the gypsy chakra have?

Posted: May 21st 2009 23:08.

A Barcelona scrap-metal dealer only has 12 on the favicon on his website.

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Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Heathen gods, Les bourgeois, Monsters, War

Gypsies providing protection services to police station in El Prat de Llobregat

Posted: December 5th 2006 17:34. Last modified: May 21st 2009 20:30

An amusing and completely credible post from Avui. Meanwhile TĂ­o Lele has confirmed via a spokesman that he is completely happy with this, the final version of his corporate website. Apparently its brutal emptiness is a metaphor for the intangible aspects of making do without the brand. It would have been nice to include at [...]

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Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog, The law court

TĂ­o Lele and OkieDokie.com

Posted: November 7th 2006 16:32. Last modified: May 21st 2009 20:31

Just had a chat with an associate of “TĂ­o Lele”, responsible for a protection, ahem, scheme in Poble Nou and other parts. It is said that everyone’s favourite uncle is a bit disturbed about the apparent lack of progress on his website, which it had been understood would be appearing on OkieDokie.com.

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Categories: God, the angels and the orders of the faithful, Les bourgeois, Splog

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  • 18 de març de 1918 Aquest matĂ­, al safareig del jardĂ­, he vist la primera oreneta de l’any. L’ocell era al cantell de pedra del dipòsit, molt a la vora de l’aigua, i tractava, amb grans dificultats, de beure’n una gota. A la tarda, en passar per davant de l’esglĂ©sia, les orenetes xisclaven volant, descrivint circumferències molt amples, al voltant del [...]
  • 18 de març de 1919 Nit. Em quedo sol a la cambra de la dispesa. VigĂ­lia del meu sant. Recordo que molts anys enrera, a Palafrugell, en tal nit com aquesta, passaven colles d’homes per les cases que cantaven els goigs. «Sed, JosĂ©, nuestro abogado – en esta vida mortal» –deien. Perfectament. Hom els donava mitja dotzena d’ous i se’ls havia [...]

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