Blair betraying Freddie?

Almighty personalised Google is having problems with syndication widgets: No 10 denies ‘secret email’ claims 1/26/07 Australia cruise to nine-wicket victory. says the Guardian feed. Norm suggests voting for Blair, so I did, but only twice.

Me cago en la suegra de tu cuñada

Heard on the bus, “I shit on the mother-in-law of your sister-in-law”, a fine new interpretation of the popular Spanish profanity, “Me cago en tu madre”, “I shit on your mother”.

Fart thee not

Mr B has been struck through and through by gastric flu. Let that be a lesson.

Troglodytes

Great Lord Bus SL, from Cerdanyola del Vallès. Great lords may travel by palanquin, phaeton or Pullman, as well as on occasion by tumbril, but they don’t do buses, even when visiting casinos.

64%

So this will be left at that.

Swift one

Bowman Ales have got their feeds working now, so if they just enable comments people will be able to read posts and write wonderful things about them without shifting from their, ahem, WiFi-enabled bench.

Really

Molins de Rei boasts a demolition business called Flatter Grup. This morning they were flattering® a rather nice turn-of-the-previous-century house on the Paseo de Gracia.

US dumps Woodsy Owl as Asturias hires Yogi Bear

“Basically, the old woodsy was fat and went running around in the woods with no shoes on. Someone decided that this was a bad message to send to kids.” This kind of stuff doesn’t bother the Asturian government, which has (mis)spent €6M on an unshod, fire-raising, drunken Yogi campaign featuring this astonishing piece of creativity.…

Bacalado

Wikipedia currently notes the disappearance of the d from the tail of past participles in Spanish (estoy cansado → toy cansao) and corresponding hypercorrections in which a redundant d is inserted into -ao endings. The following passage dealing with syncopes is from Avelino Herrero Mayor’s 1967 Diálogo argentino de la lengua (source: Corde) Profesor. –…