Tweets for February 2017

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

Wed Feb 01 09:59 Comment: @Transblawg Yup, good thread: But Derek Watkins was always going back upstairs
Wed Feb 01 10:08 Comment: @elorganillero Couldn't do this with trombones:
Wed Feb 01 14:44 Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer; / Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer.
Wed Feb 01 19:43 Comment: @DrBeachcombing The monster actually took him, and it looks pretty human to me
Wed Feb 01 21:56 Comment: @ibexsalad Ex mother-in-law: You're not an immigrant, you're white!
Thu Feb 02 11:05 What were folk singers called before they were called that, i.e. in the C19th?
Thu Feb 02 11:11 Comment: @ibexsalad So you didn't know whether you were going to hear Jenny Lind or Lottie Collins? National/popular bummer
Thu Feb 02 11:15 Comment: @ibexsalad Ah, those neat and tidy Chairmans with their Volkssänger
Thu Feb 02 11:36 #MakeRiotsGreatAgain
Thu Feb 02 13:58 Greatest romantic singers of C20th all had horse teeth, e.g. Brel and George Formby
Thu Feb 02 14:16 Comment: @elorganillero Shane MacGowan not the same since he went to the dentist
Thu Feb 02 18:57 Russians bake hedgehogs alive in clay. Certainly easier. #StuffTrumpShouldConsider
Thu Feb 02 21:42 Great Handle Festival of 1885. My kind of punning
Thu Feb 02 23:08 Barrel organs tend to be made of wood so that you can burn them if they start talking back
Fri Feb 03 08:53 The Spanish think it's hilarious that Calatrava is going to bugger up Greenwich, and are praying that he'll also build Trump's wall
Fri Feb 03 08:59 Comment: @elorganillero Thread:
Fri Feb 03 09:26 I like lawyers who use proverbs in serious contracts. I want to meet them. Otherwise 2 Henry VI still applies.
Fri Feb 03 14:47 Not what the cetophile imagined when she said, "Can you bag that for me." Gruesome.
Fri Feb 03 14:50 Comment: @ReutersSonyaD @ibexsalad @CNBC We like a man who looks after his eyebrows rather than raising others'
Sat Feb 04 05:57 William Smith geological maps online: A favourite section:
Sat Feb 04 06:13 Who has eaten the piano? Kto s'el pianíno?
Sat Feb 04 21:16 Forgettable film, but what a beautiful drunkard's head has Andrei Mironov
Sun Feb 05 16:31 @BBCRadio4 Miserables: "sprog" is 1940s
Sun Feb 05 16:57 New blog post: Where did Petersburg’s organ-grinders go in winter? Featuring Yuri Norstein, Gogol and others
Sun Feb 05 20:26 tortilla cardíaca
Sun Feb 05 23:02 Pleasure to discover "scraggy" is so old - "thin" just doesn't do it, except for emphasis #LitTrans "Her sister, who was thin and scraggy"
Sun Feb 05 23:15 Comment: @elorganillero Grose: Catamaran. An old scraggy woman; from a kind of float made of spars & yards lashed together, 4 saving the shipwrecked
Sun Feb 05 23:30 Not all there, is he
Mon Feb 06 18:12 Resentment Against Immigrants, Five Hundred Years Ago
Thu Feb 09 07:19 Trump tried to make money predicting what I like so why can't we predict machine behaviour
Thu Feb 09 07:19 Comment: @elorganillero Ah, the Newtonian Casino
Thu Feb 09 16:12 RT @RobinFlavell: Hard to to believe they wrote all those great songs
Thu Feb 09 21:44 Comment: @elorganillero DT: ‘Liza Minnelli gets $75,000 a night to sing, and I’m really curious as to how I would do.’
Fri Feb 10 10:28 RT @vizcomic:
Fri Feb 10 15:40 Señor senegalés a mí: Buena Tardis (/ˈtɑːdɪs/), señor. Es buenísima.
Fri Feb 10 20:04 RT @Uvejeje: Cerca de Al-Bab, Isis controla un pueblo que se llama impotencia en asturiano.
Sat Feb 11 09:31 German carillon tune banned for being mean to foxes, Grimms' Fairy Tales next?
Sat Feb 11 10:16 Taxation of bellringers' wedding fees
Sat Feb 11 12:16 My neighbours
Sat Feb 11 20:08 Comment: @ibexsalad
Sat Feb 11 20:22 Looks like my monkey
Sat Feb 11 20:27 Re my Trumptracker : Pierre Bastien has a rather superior jukebox
Sat Feb 11 20:32 Comment: @elorganillero I like this installation Bear with it
Sun Feb 12 12:04 There's one thing worse than not being able to read one's mails from 2002
Sun Feb 12 20:07 Czar given masterpiece of British industrial revolution: mechanical flea Левша / Lefty (1986) is a very strange film
Sun Feb 12 20:16 Comment: @elorganillero Modern English translation of the Leskov novel: or an old one for free
Sun Feb 12 20:29 check the whole thread
Tue Feb 14 08:10 lo que en secreto quiero preguntar a cada inmobiliario barcelonés: andas todo el día, dónde compras los zapatos?
Tue Feb 14 11:19 Comment: @ibexsalad So last week
Wed Feb 15 08:07 not that i know of
Wed Feb 15 13:38 Comment: @estwebber BTW The Real pastissers have been worrying for a while that a trade deal with the EU would prevent them from calling them Cornish
Wed Feb 15 20:31 Thought it was going to be a carnival song
Thu Feb 16 07:11 Recording from 1860: voice into barrel -> vibrating parchment -> pig bristle -> glass/paper
Thu Feb 16 18:58 He's old enough to remember when Romney was Hitler.
Thu Feb 16 19:04 Comment: @elorganillero Been vaguely wondering for couple of months what a skomorokh might look like - short description in
Thu Feb 16 20:59 Nunca había visto Aló Presidente. Parecen empleados queridos campamentos vacaciones Butlins
Thu Feb 16 23:32 You are Little Red Riding-Hood. I’ve had wolves in my life, I’ve had hunters, but you are Little Red Riding Hood
Thu Feb 16 23:33 Comment: @elorganillero
Thu Feb 16 23:35 Comment: @elorganillero
Fri Feb 17 16:02 Comment: @steve_guy Apparently you can buy yoga tablets.
Fri Feb 17 23:11 Comment: @Transblawg Bite their eds orf
Fri Feb 17 23:18 Off in a few hours to see Puigdàlber A in the 4th Catalan League. The sarnies are excellent.
Fri Feb 17 23:18 Comment: @elorganillero Group 10
Sun Feb 19 06:52 @justinthurgur Many thanks 4 kind words Aware of yr success, but thought you must have found the path at uni - Trev
Thu Feb 23 08:49 Violinist has a lucky escape
Thu Feb 23 11:37 Comment: @tombcn @Cerdanyola
Thu Feb 23 15:55 Gardening for the robots: AI’s inflation paradox
Thu Feb 23 20:14 RT @_patrono: Increíble el nuevo tráiler de The Avengers.
Fri Feb 24 08:35 Dorothy of Oz, serial killer
Fri Feb 24 09:26 Every time I think of talking to a Spanish lawyer, I think of the fine example set by Hieronimo
Fri Feb 24 09:38 Wetherspoons to offer banking & beer from RBS offices
Fri Feb 24 10:59 Lovely day out with music-man John in the Penedès
Fri Feb 24 11:37 Eureka! French organ grinder transcribed recently ( was doing A Woman in Love by Frank Lösser. Still my top version
Fri Feb 24 11:40 Comment: @elorganillero André van Duin came a very high 2nd
Fri Feb 24 15:57 That's what I call a bass drum
Sat Feb 25 10:21 Juniper & Mabberley, The Story of the Apple: one of the best books I've ever read @LittleStormDes
Sat Feb 25 11:30 Comment: Utterly different:
Sat Feb 25 14:34 I've sorted out my self-referential organ-grinding song repertoire
Sat Feb 25 18:21 When modernism was still pleasingly newsworthy
Sun Feb 26 12:39 Knives go blade-up in the breakfast washing-up rack to alert us to the beastly brutish brevity that remains till lunch
Mon Feb 27 19:01 font [obs.] of exasperation
Tue Feb 28 08:55 Can someone tell me more about the Samuel Troll automaton at the beginning of Alicia Keys' No One?
Tue Feb 28 09:32 WTF "cement factory, dating from the first period of the industrialization of Catalonia." Gimme a brick mill any day
Tue Feb 28 17:14 This man doesn't realise it, but he's doing something pretty difficult
Tue Feb 28 17:16 Comment: @elorganillero He's cueing off the lead trombone in the intro, unaware that it's a 9th not an octave
Tue Feb 28 19:22 When I am Czar, all the cowboys in the Russian вестерн/vestern will have to wear wifebeaters