Tweets for January 2017

Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer

Sun Jan 01 14:26 First wish of 2017 answered: Russians? Copyright?
Sun Jan 01 14:49 Sally, I'd press you to my heart, / But all such pressure you decry; / There's too much cotton, whalebone, lace, / 'Tween you and I.
Sun Jan 01 14:49 Comment: @elorganillero
Sun Jan 01 15:14 The last that I heard / Of her and her Joey the clown, / They played in the streets / And trudged it from town into town
Sun Jan 01 15:15 Comment: @elorganillero If you for amusements wish, / Take advice from me in time, / You should take your girl to a music-hall, / Not to a pantomime.
Mon Jan 02 06:09 Comment: @tombcn Shows you word roots - handy for the ignorant - , but, like other Russian language sites, pretty sure the dictionary is ripped off
Mon Jan 02 07:03 Wedding concert of marrow bones and cleavers, Marylebone, London, 1810
Mon Jan 02 08:31 Comment: @tombcn Dutch dealer I used to know called his daughter Wietje - weed & personal name, so the courts couldn't act.
Tue Jan 03 13:25 New blog post: a sensational 1810 Parisian fire (inc 3 noseless Austrians) on top of an 1840s Russian barrel organ
Wed Jan 04 19:49 Is the skin Python curtus? Book printed/bound on Sumatra in 1915
Wed Jan 04 19:53 Comment: @elorganillero Max Dauthendey. Des grossen Krieges Not.
Wed Jan 04 21:09 RT @calroscow: I think we often forget how much of today's language Shakespeare gave us. Profound.
Wed Jan 04 21:14 Hierarchy of sausage consumption
Thu Jan 05 20:46 Bertie Crook's turkey
Thu Jan 05 20:48 Comment: @tombcn Didn't Jimi have his extended? Oh, no, I'm thinking of something else.
Thu Jan 05 20:48 Comment: @elorganillero
Fri Jan 06 20:52 Yes to monkeys, yes to the study of monkeys. Or, reversed, Yes to Leveson 2, no to Section 40
Fri Jan 06 21:00 @britishlibrary Issa trombone part, not a trumpet innit
Sat Jan 07 17:45 @melvillehouse Do you mean to make your book PDFs freely available?
Sun Jan 08 20:57 Solution for "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
Sun Jan 08 22:17 RT @BrandonEvrs: Men should have to pay a deposit at the start of any interaction they have w/ a woman. If they waste her time, they don't…
Sun Jan 08 22:44 It is very difficult to say enough good words about Owd Rodger, or, after two, any words at all.
Mon Jan 09 20:51 Not every decade that you meet up with one of the Lesser Known Tunisians Demigods
Tue Jan 10 18:52 Bad monkey
Tue Jan 10 18:57 RT @estwebber: today's best anecdote about the behaviour of Welsh-speaking dogs is from Lord Thomas
Tue Jan 10 22:18 Max Mosley’s Demand to “End Coloured Immigration”
Tue Jan 10 22:38 Classy Russian Robin Hood song
Tue Jan 10 22:48 2017, best year ever
Wed Jan 11 15:10 4 more African inflationary tunes: Ghana, Sierra Leone, Congo now covered, but nothing from Zimbabwe or in French
Wed Jan 11 18:55 Monkey googling germaphobe
Thu Jan 12 09:14 Stay clear of the sauces. Also:
Thu Jan 12 09:19 Comment: @elorganillero Gertrude: one could not be tossed by this one and this one did not toss himself enough to be another kind of a young one
Thu Jan 12 13:36 Monkey: "First the inconvenient journalists, then the organ-grinders..." #Impress Fascist Max Mosley Clobbers Copper
Thu Jan 12 14:55 RT @sauro: OMG IT FINALLY HAPPENED! THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG
Thu Jan 12 17:11 Re Russian automaton of Austrian ladies circling Napoleon, perhaps on top of a barrel-organ, someone sent in this
Thu Jan 12 17:54 RT @tkbeynon: This pub landlord described in the Times' letter pages honestly sounds amazing
Thu Jan 12 18:36 Your handy cut-out-and-keep instant rebuttal guide for countering neo-prohibitionist lies
Fri Jan 13 13:30 Picnic on the grass Hurry up One of these days The grass will picnic on you
Fri Jan 13 22:15 At last, a good Russian film
Fri Jan 13 23:27 Comment: @elorganillero Showstopper with fake Ivan the Terrible
Sat Jan 14 11:57 How were they to know that shaving rather than lances was the solution to Pthirus pubis?
Sat Jan 14 14:23 Good to catch up with Rod Liddle in Oxford
Sun Jan 15 08:42 Beautiful
Sun Jan 15 11:33 You're translating a piece about Russian ovens and along comes a talking one
Sun Jan 15 12:55 WTF: Chabag, Swiss-French wine-growing colony on the shores of the Black Sea
Sun Jan 15 12:56 Comment: @elorganillero image is of what they left behind
Sun Jan 15 14:17 Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West HD (Dubbed)
Sun Jan 15 20:59 Nice gyrating shadow lantern image in Fitzgerald's version of Omar Khayyam
Sun Jan 15 21:36 Comment: @tombcn I hope you're not going to discriminate against him on the basis of his sexual ostentation.
Mon Jan 16 13:38 Comment: @resi_analyst Does that include shared ownership? Basically institutionalisation of the tied cottage: go north, London retiree
Mon Jan 16 14:57 Ingenious 19th century contraceptive, ad from The Goings On of Mrs. Brown
Mon Jan 16 16:30 Grigorovich, Petersburg Organ Grinders (1843) has "2 blackamoors playing with a stick" #morrisdancing #blackface
Mon Jan 16 16:33 Comment: @elorganillero арап softened to Arab in previous English translation
Mon Jan 16 16:36 Comment: @elorganillero And the organ grinder doesn't know why it happens, apart from it's what's always happened
Mon Jan 16 18:37 Europeana Radio - for serendipping
Mon Jan 16 18:45 RT @OrkneyLibrary: And that concludes the traditional Orkney Library staff leaving ceremony... @_Stewart_Bain
Mon Jan 16 20:46 1860s Neapolitan-French ambulant translator Hamburg Arts & Crafts Museum collection online
Tue Jan 17 08:36 Hard to work when YouTube confusing mid-20th-century star Zarah Leander with the modern Turkish singer
Tue Jan 17 08:41 Comment: @elorganillero Hildegard Knef will do
Tue Jan 17 09:16 RT @estwebber: La La Land: like Singin in the Rain except nobody knows how to sing or dance or tell a joke
Tue Jan 17 22:20 Gulp, asked my first Proz translation question (RU-EN)
Wed Jan 18 08:26 Song by woman in Arnhem about her neighbour wars
Wed Jan 18 14:39 Comment: @GuidoFawkes @momentumexposed Non-white % also lower than Trump cabinet?
Wed Jan 18 15:23 Carlyle there to remind us of what happens when English forget duty to be mongrels and go whoring after German gods.
Thu Jan 19 09:39 Very beautiful, but why didn't they cut the corner? (Бег / The Flight < Bulgakov)
Thu Jan 19 09:42 @steve_guy Do you ever get the feeling you are walking in the fog and an owl is following you?
Fri Jan 20 10:48 Donald for Dalai Lama: A Trump Taj Mahal Casino multitrack jukebox.
Fri Jan 20 20:00 Comment: @tombcn But how does he know they're for ICBMs and not to turn off the central heating?
Sat Jan 21 10:13 We've all been there
Sat Jan 21 13:34 small manifestation of Yuri Norstein's genius:
Sun Jan 22 08:59 I've got a dress like that.
Sun Jan 22 09:11 Sit, chat, beer: thought I was the only one who couldn't bear sitting around in pubs
Sun Jan 22 11:43 McGonagall zombie invasion
Sun Jan 22 11:49 Comment: @elorganillero Well, it rhymes
Sun Jan 22 22:33 RT @POTORRUS: . @luisbanon @elmundotoday EIBAR WILL BE GREAT AGAIN. THE RESULT IS FAKE NEWS. SO SAD... #EibarBarçaEMT
Mon Jan 23 18:00 Where does the name of the King's Park Ward (Lower Clapton/Lea Bridge/Clapton Park/Homerton) come from? Aspirational? Related to Kingsmead?
Mon Jan 23 18:01 Comment: @elorganillero Ditto Chatham
Wed Jan 25 08:41 @BathChron's #bathlive hashtag provides some remarkable NSFW content
Wed Jan 25 10:24 Confused to discover that Deliveroo is not midwifery on demand
Wed Jan 25 17:24
Thu Jan 26 12:20 Missed me train, thanks #RMT
Thu Jan 26 20:04 iPhone barrel organ
Fri Jan 27 07:10 Twain on & in German
Mon Jan 30 09:51 Of course all vegan hot-dogs should be reduced to one GBP and their vendor-abusers publicly beaten. #NoSausage
Mon Jan 30 17:03 RT @CPRE: Is Bath’s world heritage status at risk from a park and ride? Just one of the many beauty spots under threat:
Mon Jan 30 23:43 Bulat Okudzhava: Barrel-organ charlatan / How sweetly you sing! [Some one else can finish this]
Tue Jan 31 11:28 New on my wishlist (: Count Bruga, by the Russian-Jewish-American literary colossus, Ben Hecht
Tue Jan 31 12:42 Comment: @elorganillero Graf Bruga
Tue Jan 31 21:05 Traffic policeman song from a 1908 Berlin review (Click the gear symbol for English subtitles) #GermanHumour
Tue Jan 31 21:37 Why do the angels in Revelation 8 get trumpets in English & Russian but trombones in German? Divine prejudice or indifference?