Subservient chicken

Yet another triumph for capitalism: try out show me your ass and spit at me on Burger King’s Subservient Chicken. Via Language Log.

Pain-to-pain

WiFi-SM (via wondering) sounds good: I’ve been using WiFi-SM for one month and it’s amazing ! When somebody suffers on earth, not only I know it, but I can also feel a little bit of his/her pain. I don’t feel guilty anymore and I can enjoy life without limitation. I love WiFi-SM ;-) Here’s the…

Intermission riff (ii)

Out of sight (and probably out of my mind) for a few days, so here for you and especially for Henk is an excerpt from a Jack Bulterman number called Steeple Chase, adapted from the version recorded by Theo Uden Masman and Het Ramblers Dansorkest in Casino Hamdorff in Laren, Holland on the 13th of…

Beware of the saint

This afternoon round the back the cat took a chunk out of a monk with San Francesco d’Apussy delusions. Here, then, are two gateposts from a small estate over the back of Collserola:

Zapatero’s Kyoto charade

All last year industry and sections of the PP were saying that there was no way that Spain could meet its Kyoto targets, currently being overshot by more than 100% as a result of the PP’s fine economic record (see below). Economics minister Rato was mugged by a bunch of industrialists in early December in…

Un fenomenal poti poti

… says that notorious den of deviant subversion, Quaderns, of this blog. Funny: that’s what my mum used to say of me (in English) at the stage when I was in and (principally) out of nappies.

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,…

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…