Tweets for March 2017

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

Thu Mar 02 08:42 DISGRACEFUL!!!!
Thu Mar 02 08:43 Welcome to our schools' digital skills revolution
Thu Mar 02 08:45 Comment: @elorganillero Open up the screengrab and say thankyou to Edward O'Connor, aged 10
Thu Mar 02 10:54 Frank Zappa playing the bike
Thu Mar 02 10:59 Comment: @elorganillero Possibly a clip from The World's Greatest Sinner - I've never seen it
Thu Mar 02 11:44 New photos on Barcelona flat advert
Fri Mar 03 11:53 Comment: @oobr Nothing to do with obesity trends?
Fri Mar 03 12:58 BTW, could have sworn I saw an Apache flying low over Walthamstow Marsh yesterday. Glad I'm not a pheasant.
Fri Mar 03 13:03 Comment: @MiriamHaywood On second thoughts, maybe we should all buy pheasant costumes. What do you advise?
Sun Mar 05 22:46 It's not every day you commission a Romanian Domino's sandwich boarder to comb the gutters of Bath for someone's dentures
Sun Mar 05 22:53 Hypothesis: inverse relationship between the n-grams for "Van Morrison" and "Morrisons van" is at the heart of the current political crisis
Sun Mar 05 23:22 Comment: @Transblawg Oh God
Mon Mar 06 09:11 Comment: @Transblawg Had no idea, clearly trapped in a grubble bubble
Mon Mar 06 15:32 Fine hipster satire: Accidentally bought part of 5.80 pint tother day, severe allergic reaction lasted till next AM
Mon Mar 06 15:59 cop a load of these sheds
Mon Mar 06 23:56 Amazing: no one seems to have documented a walking route from Bath to Frome via the Stranglers' beloved cider pub, Tucker's Grave
Tue Mar 07 10:21 Like, you notice, I don't wear a beard. / Beards were in but now they're out.
Tue Mar 07 13:58 What, though tis said I have a voice; I know tis but that hollow noise Which as it through my pipe doth speed Bitterns do carol thru a reed
Tue Mar 07 13:58 Comment: @elorganillero Richard Lovelace
Tue Mar 07 21:01 Jerk it and ferk it
Wed Mar 08 08:18 Weeping Angel v. 0.0.1 #WikiLeaks #CIA
Wed Mar 08 08:20 Comment: @elorganillero Relevant retroactivity:
Wed Mar 08 09:20 Audio excerpts now work on the website. Google didn't like me streaming MP3s from Drive
Wed Mar 08 11:51 Frome and Villages Bus Users Group: TRUE LOVE THREATENED BY 267 BUS CUTS
Wed Mar 08 12:57 Times toon should really feature a Hammond-barrel organ mashup
Wed Mar 08 13:22
Thu Mar 09 08:00 I wish patchy cloud would actually look like Apache, signed Geronimo, the yawning one
Thu Mar 09 11:41 So Bova Korolevich is spawned of Bevis of Hampton #ComeOnYouSaints #TradingNation etc
Fri Mar 10 09:14 Le petit prince, in Andalusian. "Tú no ereh d'ahkí -le diho er zorro."
Fri Mar 10 09:15 "Discover the K'Ré d'Ars à la carte menu with its iodized flavours."
Fri Mar 10 09:29 RT @BathEcho: Appeal launched to restore historic portable barrel organ which toured Bath in 1945
Fri Mar 10 10:33 Spreadshit Phil and beer duty: Back on the escalator
Fri Mar 10 12:20 Comment: @JustinJerez jaja qué bueno, aunque Twitter thinks it's Slovenian
Fri Mar 10 13:57 English-language babble: on Chrome all the MP3s autoplay. Nothing like "rhubarb, rhubarb"
Fri Mar 10 17:59 Seville oranges being turned into marmalade: smells like the Valencia countryside in Feb, but Valencia wasn't sticky underfoot
Sun Mar 12 21:42 Somerset neologisms: it's a bit of a mess-muddle (what you expect), I guess you'd like something more up-together (organised, functional)
Sun Mar 12 21:44 Somerset, where restaurant beer-lists begin with Thatchers
Wed Mar 15 11:30 Why on earth would a Barcelona estate agent tell a client they have never met how much they loathe Catalans?
Wed Mar 15 13:13 Someone unscrupulous could have fun with this: Dutch voter turnout above 100% in various locations
Wed Mar 15 17:47 Divine pied-à-terre for sale in 18th century convent in Barcelona's Old Port (Photoshop genius, no?)
Thu Mar 16 08:15 Classification of English words by average frequency, hi to lo
Thu Mar 16 10:30 Person & context. Eric Ball Resurgam, IM RJH Knight
Thu Mar 16 10:32 Comment: @elorganillero Single take, warts & all, and a sound you won't hear again
Fri Mar 17 13:58 Hoping the Syrian friend who has suffered a Damascene loft conversion will find a way to talk about it
Fri Mar 17 21:50 Why does Eddie Cantor do blackface but not blackpalms?
Fri Mar 17 21:57 Comment: @elorganillero And why did Pigmeat Markham black up even though he was already black?
Fri Mar 17 21:59 Comment: @elorganillero Extra: Pigmeat in (allegedly) the first rap recording, from 1968, Here Comes The Judge
Fri Mar 17 22:06 Sound pulpit layout from @BishopBullwnkl Don't get a monkey if you ain't got a fire extinguisher
Sat Mar 18 09:06 "Frome" rhymes with "home", sez honeymooning GK Chesterton (Ballad of the White Horse), so homophonous with Dutch "vroom", pious, holy. Hmmm
Sat Mar 18 09:08 And only dogs can hear whistles
Sat Mar 18 09:44 Ah, yes.
Sat Mar 18 16:37 Comment: @Transblawg Eh? lost, but don't whatever you do kiss Michael Mistletine
Sat Mar 18 16:43 Al cliento muy güisquero del Mercadona del Ninot: lo normal es "no comprar uno, conseguir uno gratis", no tres
Sat Mar 18 19:11 Euphoniums have moved on since I last touched one
Sat Mar 18 23:08 The only Angi I'm really going to miss
Sat Mar 18 23:08 Comment: @elorganillero I mean, there must be some plans
Sun Mar 19 10:26 Writing about illegal arguments in Python inevitably opens up snakepit of stories about the reptile skin trade. What was Guido thinking?
Sun Mar 19 14:11 Comment: @la_buloteca @Uvejeje Más vale Twitter en mano que RAE en Madrid?
Sun Mar 19 20:17 Hace gracia la abuela que masacra Andaluza d Granados 15 veces/hora puerta del Palau pq su vibrato es lo de Bernardo
Sun Mar 19 20:19 Comment: @elorganillero QEPD...
Sun Mar 19 20:37 Yes, but what did the singing actually sound like? My guess: something like your local CofE temple on Sunday morning
Mon Mar 20 23:32 Apotheosis of YouTube: man makes way slowly & carefully along the Bohemian-Saxon border on old Erzgebirgs-Kammweg
Mon Mar 20 23:35 Comment: @elorganillero Passes birthplace of Ferdinand Stamm (Orpus) without comment, but good butterfly shots
Mon Mar 20 23:39 Comment: @elorganillero Great moment: explanation of the panorama, in the middle of a forest
Tue Mar 21 08:49 OK, so Hainan in PRC has worse tourism than Barcelona: ca 55 million vs population of 9
Tue Mar 21 08:50 Comment: @elorganillero
Tue Mar 21 09:59 Europeana celebrates World Poetry Day with Slovenian poem (Gregorčič, Soči) calling on a river to drown all Italians
Tue Mar 21 10:39 Artist's impression of the Park and Ride
Wed Mar 22 12:57 not organ harvesters but organ grinders, you silly monkey
Wed Mar 22 12:58 Comment: @elorganillero (non angli, sed angeli)
Wed Mar 22 14:28 Terrible
Wed Mar 22 14:31 Comment: @nntaleb Played there on numerous occasions, so nocturnal existence at least, of a sort.
Wed Mar 22 23:01 Silly of C4: all of my neighbours are in prison
Thu Mar 23 00:17 Pink trombone voice synth - find a config (with pitch wobble, obv), ideal music-while-you-work
Thu Mar 23 07:02 Now Is The Winter Of Approximately 1592
Thu Mar 23 07:06 Comment: @elorganillero I find it far easier to comprehend than the usual Home Counties posh/Rada
Thu Mar 23 07:13 Comment: @Transblawg This fan of the personal & political AM loves the Herlinde Koelbls
Thu Mar 23 07:15 I'm duck-struck
Thu Mar 23 07:28 Jelly Roll Morton & Kiedis n Flea have obscured some greats of London pub rock, Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers
Thu Mar 23 09:21 Let's build a wall, a bouncy castle wall. The organ probably passed contra our pious friend on the M6 yesterday but missed its chance
Thu Mar 23 10:00 Somerset Art Deco (that's what it says). Looks like concrete shed meets armour piercing rounds
Thu Mar 23 10:17 Comment: @elorganillero Not that I have anything against concrete sheds
Thu Mar 23 12:25 Comment: @SimonNeville Try opening a bank account if you're British, self-employed and have never borrowed money.
Thu Mar 23 14:26 Otra gran canción de la Cantante Sin Nombre/Zangeres Zonder Naam sobre la guerra, ahora habla un refugiado español
Thu Mar 23 14:26 Comment: @elorganillero Más:
Thu Mar 23 14:29 Comment: @elorganillero El militar ciego acaba de volver de la guerra, y llora porque no ve a su hijo, recién nacido
Thu Mar 23 14:31 Comment: @elorganillero Y la mejor: Madre de los Soldados
Thu Mar 23 14:53 Ear-orientation in humans: but unfortunately no discussion of people who wrongly believe they can pivot their ears
Thu Mar 23 20:21 Found some old 35 mm films. Who best in UK to process & scan? (Spammers -> blacklist)
Fri Mar 24 09:19 Een worstseller is dus niet een goedverkocht boek over in dierendarm geconserveerde vleesproducten. You live and you learn, albeit slowly
Fri Mar 24 10:10 Comment: @jmmulet competencia desleal? Logroño vive de la venta de producto mágico
Sat Mar 25 08:52 Dion Fortune, Sea Priestess: totally bizarre novel of 1930s Brean Down (Fort), Somerset society, and posh occultism
Sat Mar 25 08:55 Comment: @elorganillero Just ignore the 1980s Glastonbury/schlock rock patina. Wiki is a treat , ditto
Sat Mar 25 08:55 Comment: @elorganillero Also & Gareth Knight
Sun Mar 26 08:02 90s Petersburg, when love was a Sony Discman and noodles
Sun Mar 26 08:21 navel orange < portuguese umbigo, belly button, not scurvy naval types
Sun Mar 26 10:31 Trying to understand the morphology of the derivation of "makhorka" (shag) from "Amersfoort" #etymology #russian
Sun Mar 26 10:34 Comment: @elorganillero Probably bollocks
Sun Mar 26 10:49 Worse than the (religious) fanatics' ban on smoking in Europe: the Indians' peace pipe is on the way out
Sun Mar 26 10:50 Comment: @elorganillero Peter the Great paid for his (Dutch) navy with the (English) tobacco concession
Sun Mar 26 10:54 Comment: @elorganillero Religious persecution of tobacco in Russia
Sun Mar 26 11:05 Comment: @elorganillero tevreden roker = geen onruststoker
Sun Mar 26 11:10 Category "should be true": Prince Philip shook Tom Lehrer's hand and said he’d always enjoyed listening to “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”
Sun Mar 26 13:42 How to build and fuel a traditional Russian-type oven
Sun Mar 26 18:12 Italian @ Coppermill Lane singing to her daughter. Me: "You know O Sole mio!" Her: "No, it's the ice cream song."
Sun Mar 26 18:12 Comment: @elorganillero O solomillo, con patatas fritas
Sun Mar 26 18:32 Old favourite
Sun Mar 26 19:51 Still one of the best pharma papers ever: red colobus monkeys eating charcoal to clean out dietary cyanide
Sun Mar 26 20:01 Comment: @elorganillero Cinder tea, anyone?
Mon Mar 27 12:21 Method of Instructing Children Rationally in the Arts of Writing & Reading (1813): We intend to dung this land. Thou hast lost our dung fork
Mon Mar 27 13:37 Salaam alaikum/Alaikum salaam = Nice to see you, to see you nice. Innit.
Mon Mar 27 14:17 Russki joke: Worm & infant emerge from dunghill. "Mum, how beautiful everything is here! How come we don't move out?" "It's home, son."
Mon Mar 27 21:01 Happy is he whose granny tells fortunes.
Mon Mar 27 21:03 Comment: @elorganillero Was looking for a proverb along the lines of "Happiness is transient and full of cares."
Mon Mar 27 21:04 Comment: @elorganillero Johan Cruyff: Every disadvantage has its advantage.
Mon Mar 27 21:26 Comment: @elorganillero Morrissey: In the midst of life we are in debt, etc.
Mon Mar 27 21:27 Comment: @elorganillero Feuchtersleben, allegedly: Onzeker en vergankelijk is het geluk; zeker en eeuwig blijft de plicht.
Mon Mar 27 22:29 RT @northumbriana: This is superb: Norwegian sailors singing a sea shanty as they sail into Bergen harbour. #Vikings /via @paulcareyjones…
Tue Mar 28 08:57 Gallego? Comorrrrrrr? #jerga
Tue Mar 28 10:19 Guiri special - the great Jimmy Mitchell
Tue Mar 28 10:20 Comment: @elorganillero More (Mack the Knife is great):
Tue Mar 28 10:53 Anyone know what system Google Translate is using for Russian romanization? Speaking as absolute beginner...
Tue Mar 28 11:44 McAdam (whence tarmac) on the common rut (1819 evidence to Select Committee whilst working on Bristol highways)
Tue Mar 28 21:19 What do you call the front left and right sides of a jacket? Not flaps, not breasts...
Wed Mar 29 09:46 Ca 1520: The hunt is up * 2, And it is well nigh day; And Tresa our queen is gone hunting, To bring her deer to bay.
Wed Mar 29 09:48 Comment: @elorganillero Was William Gray of Reading's poem a metaphor for European disunity?
Wed Mar 29 18:56 Comment: @petersymon Was relying on you for that
Wed Mar 29 20:15 Merry Andrew" maybe not just a random type of street buffoon, but echo of Andrew Borde, a rather curious C16th medic
Wed Mar 29 20:17 Comment: @elorganillero From Catalonia he sends [T. Cromwell] the seeds of rhubarb, 200 years before that plant was generally cultivated in England.
Thu Mar 30 06:11 Modern theatre (C Sprague, Boston 1791-1875): Vaulters who rightly served at home perchance Had dangled from the rope on which they dance
Thu Mar 30 11:47 Me and "Me" (photograph taken by children at Woodlands Park Nursery School & Children's Centre)
Thu Mar 30 12:59 Great find at #AlexandraPalace: The wages of sin is death, the wages of a carpenter is worse #opendoors17 @Yourallypally @WillmottDixon
Thu Mar 30 13:01 Comment: @elorganillero Bollock flaps, says Savile Row
Thu Mar 30 16:31 St Mary, Hornsey, recently with St George, but today with the cranes St James of Mammon aka The Berkeley Group (crane logo unclear, sorry!)
Thu Mar 30 17:22 Ally Pally Angel aka Ceres (?) trumped by 1936 VHF transmission mast trumped by CCTV #AlexandraPalace
Thu Mar 30 18:00 Swedish Phonoscope-style musical postcard - Koster Waltz / Kostervalsen
Thu Mar 30 20:20 Bij intro van Margootje denk ik altijd aan de middel 8 van Somewhere & Judy Garland maar ik zit heus wel verkeerd
Fri Mar 31 10:18 Comment: @Uvejeje Y damos Cataluña al BCE en vez de pagar la deuda?