February 2016 – London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ grinders and monkey and marmot migration

Any proto-ecologists don’t seem to have cared very much.

The recto of the Anglicised business card.

Augmented poetry

Theodor Körner, Andreas Hofer’s Tod: The Death of Hofer, the Tyrolese Leader – translation in The Times: I like the plausible military detail.

Ah, but can it lift kilos?

Current legislation means our Amazon warehouse jobs are safe.

Putting a spoon in your champagne/cava/prosecco bottle is dumb

Just keep it in the fridge.

When a deal’s not a deal, & a regrettably shy Moses – somehow I doubt the Nige & George show will ping it. Re desert peoples: What to do with the discovery that one can more or less understand the Yiddish of the Stamford Hill Jews? They say such boring things – not a word…

Brenda strikes back

“Don’t waste your time on obscure contemporary composers, John,” she said.

Pegida Nederland ≠ NSB, Syriërs ≠ Tsjechen, Assad ≠ Hitler etc. etc.

Maar dit artikeltje van 7 april 1939 over een clandestiene zender in Oldenzaal blijft toch interessant.

The Eastern European & Balkan press, even less interested in Brexit than everyone else

Several hypotheses.

Een natje en een droogje

Something wet and something dry (i.e. a drink and some food) is ahead in the ghit count, but I’d like to see more of something wet and something warm, if you get my drift.

Linguistic change as a result of speech defects

Someone sent me the item about the drunken Galician whoremonger who got trapped in a lavoir (Spanish narrative), and I put it on in the background. Galician normally sounds like dodgy rural Spanish with a bit of Portuguese thrown in, but the first interviewee threw me completely. A completely new dialect? Nope: check his front…

Month: February 2016