Out like stout

More from Eurweb: The last time we saw Dre he was disheveled, by pimp standards, and wearing a stocking cap in a concrete cell somewhere in Nevada. Now he’s out like stout. How’d that happen? Dre explains on. – Gorgeous Dre, you are hereby accused of profiting from the immoral earnings of others.– I innocent,…

Redemption – but only for the punctual

This is another gem rescued recently from the recyclers. It’s the rulebook (sorry, no time for a translation) for rehearsals running up to the presentation in 1966 of a Passion drama, Redención, by the employees of the Metro Transversal at the theatre on Badal, Sants. For my choir this is additional evidence that I am…

Government offices

Much of my spam is now in Mandarin, but here’s an interesting excerpt received from across the pond this morning: In some Government offices the clerks, upon arrival in the morning, have to sign their names in an “attendance book”. This book provides space for signature, time of arrival, and “remarks.” Ten minutes after the…

Dirty dolls

Apparently the fine children’s illustrator Honor Appleton (1879-1951) was not such a good girl after all: She had … a puckish, not to mention smutty wit – as evidenced by her illustration … of a little girl playing with her dolls, two of whom are locked in sexual congress on the floor. Nobody to my…