The itching time came up yesterday, probably referring to Francoism, while I was prancing around in a new wig for purposes that will shortly be revealed. DCVB says “l’any de la picor” refers to distant times, and proverbologist Víctor Pàmies cites Joan Amades’s hypothesis that it comes from the Year of Fleas and Famine, 1471,…
Cf. one of the tales from the Decameron which made me laugh most as child, that of the hermit Rustico who teaches the virgin Alibech how to put the Devil back into Hell.
Rather weary yesterday PM after a morning’s rabbit-hunting, so bumbled through Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant Decline and fall and Vile bodies, which contain quite a number of afternoon naps. Conjecture: the British began to replace the expression with “siesta” as they started staying awake after lunch and drowsing off became associated with the lazy Latins. Refutation:
Observed today: When all the stations in an area are full (often the case in the port/beach district), leave your bike next to a station in the hope that someone will ride off on it and dock it somewhere, soon. This almost guarantees a small fine, and carries a considerable risk of a large one…
You’ll find various subscription options on the site. Different language, different audience, the imminent resurrection of Albert O. Pernales, Messiah…
Ayuda encontrarás en The Big Problem of Small Organs de Alan Kitley (h/t Transblawg), que cuenta como la mujer de E. Power Biggs le sopla su órgano. A ver si la RAE se anime a admitir este anglocabronismo, cuyo uso ya es generalizado. Y no olvidemos los entendres dobles de Clarence Williams en el Organ Grinder Blues:…
Lenox may be on the verge of an important discovery. (It has been suggested that I am Lenox, or vice versa. Many faces fortune wears, but that is not one of them.)
Francisco Gabilondo Soler has been denounced for his song, Ratón Vaquero, from the Cri-Cri show (more here), in which a Yankee mouse demands his freedom from the trap into which he has fallen: The offending lyrics in full: What the heck is this housefor a manly cowboy mouse?Hello you! let me out!and don’t catch me…