London organ-grinding tweets for October 2017

Lukewarm barrel organ-ish ephemera from Hackney, London and thereabouts.

A bull attacks the first public train service in Russia, causing the ceremonial organ-grinder to teeter dangerously.

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

Sun Oct 01 19:57 Someone at Wetherspoon's described @Nigel_Farage as the British Gandhi. Where can we send the loincloth?
Sun Oct 01 20:07 More Wetherspoon's: reaction to Boris Johnson Mandalay actually about post-WWII English crits fear of rhythm & rhyme
Sun Oct 01 20:08 Comment: Some handy Kipling background:
Sun Oct 01 20:10 Comment: is great, but no Wetherspoon's Wisdom a/c
Sun Oct 01 21:28 Comment: @jonno50 @Nigel_Farage [He clears his throat]
Sun Oct 01 21:29 Comment: @Transblawg Off the production line at a 50s marmalade factory?
Sun Oct 01 21:30 Comment: @deliavenables @Transblawg My blog's legal in the Philippines
Sun Oct 01 22:08 Comment: Kenn Dodd singing The Road to Mandalay as sung by Billy Benett: MudCat has it all
Sun Oct 01 22:23 Comment: @jonno50 Oh dear, oh dear. There used to be proper jobs for people like you.
Sun Oct 01 22:23 Comment: @ibexsalad But Bosnia is supporting Rajoy.
Sun Oct 01 22:34 San Pietro, Saffron Hill, outstanding C18th Neapolitan nativity, and some rather fine cake
Sun Oct 01 23:06 Por fin
Mon Oct 02 11:30 Any good songs re Spanish 1978 constitution, or disastrous electoral system it engendered? This made me laugh most
Tue Oct 03 07:14 "It is commonly suspected that the writings of UK Le Guin are not actually written by UK Le Guin, but by another person of the same name"
Tue Oct 03 09:02 Blog: So, would you rather visit Tory party conference or the 1660 Foire de Saint-Germain? (We believe in choice.)
Tue Oct 03 12:05 WTF ceremony in C18th Poland involving Jew dancing with a large puppet & engaging in obscure acts with "Turk"
Tue Oct 03 13:16 At last, strategic analysis of the Catalan situation
Tue Oct 03 20:35 Comment: @lordbonkers Have Belgian waterways really had anything to report since they finished the Rhine-Schelde link in the 70s?
Wed Oct 04 09:38 RT @arrroberts: Surely too good to be true, this.
Wed Oct 04 09:45 Brilliant collection Russian early-/mid-imperial memoirs e.g. Vigel pre-1830 theatre/opera
Wed Oct 04 09:47 Counting votes in Catalan "referendum" Republic or theocracy?
Wed Oct 04 13:31 Not as exciting as one might hope
Wed Oct 04 13:41 Comment: Apologies, there's actually some pretty racy stuff towards the end
Thu Oct 05 09:32 How Dell Support, after denying that the part existed, sent the three small screws to replace ones fallen out of a poorly finished laptop
Thu Oct 05 09:34 More criminality from deepest Somerset. Judge: "You could have looked at anything online - aeroplanes, motorcars, steam engines..."
Thu Oct 05 13:49 Danzig street cries 1765: A nasty leap in his barrel organ tune is stressing out the magic lantern man.
Thu Oct 05 19:41 RT @wicko3: So, just a house then.
Fri Oct 06 07:59 Ha ha ha ha
Fri Oct 06 10:08 I haven't mentioned for a while how much I like the custard tarts at Palmeira on Leyton High Road
Fri Oct 06 10:31 Victor Borge phonetic pronunciation I hadn't seen his piano act either
Fri Oct 06 11:45 First Russian legal translation, out the door. Russia has laws, so many & diverse that the Civil Code = an unbeatable cabinet of curiosities
Fri Oct 06 11:46 Comment: @WateryTom Read the small print: the pollution has killed off our critical brain cells
Fri Oct 06 11:50 @LittleStormDes
Fri Oct 06 12:59 1st mention of yodelling, ex Schikaneder, mate of Mozart, establishing Tyrolean as cheerful fool smelling of cow poo
Sat Oct 07 08:27 Comment: @DavidDeutschOxf Bored by the whole business
Sat Oct 07 08:35 Our literati don't usually take modern rhymed verse as seriously, because the masses enjoy rhyme too much
Sat Oct 07 09:09 Is The Fugitive Kind (1959 w Marlon Brando) the best calliope movie ever?
Sun Oct 08 08:17 1 show & 6 pints of London Pride & I too am convinced that Derren Brown is Banksy, but does it matter?
Sun Oct 08 11:49 deconstruction of a dutch bridge, live. even more exciting than formula 1
Sun Oct 08 12:35 Gran tema de Lucho Gatica, cuyo guardaespaldas en La tía Julia es nuestro querido Vargas Llosa, hoy en las noticias
Mon Oct 09 12:35 Baroness Trumpington & some asshole
Mon Oct 09 17:32 Only solution available now to Catalan disaster is restoration of direct rule of Hispania from Rome
Mon Oct 09 17:34 Comment: Come back Marcus Aurelius
Mon Oct 09 18:30 Comment: @_Juarma_ Son colombianos
Tue Oct 10 07:21 Challenges for a small press
Tue Oct 10 08:03 Comment: @jonno50 @HampsonChris Belge. What an extraordinary concept.
Tue Oct 10 08:27 Musical glimpses of the Sahel before the Islamic veil, inc one particularly fine Mohammed Wardi clip
Tue Oct 10 08:56 Critter ID help needed: alpine marmot (?), squirrel monkeys (?), Pulcinella. 1840s Russia
Tue Oct 10 09:00 Comment: Russia had native (Bobak & Forest-Steppe) marmots, but I'm guessing imported ones were used. Squirrel monkeys favoured by German artistes.
Tue Oct 10 09:50 Great language/AI updater
Tue Oct 10 10:19 Aged 6, I went to the zoo & saw the elephant take a crap & thought, "That's the biggest asshole ever." But today may hold a surprise
Tue Oct 10 13:42 Detlev von Liliencron (late C19) still pictures barrel organ + shadow puppetry. Translation Isay Mandel'shtam, suffered dreadfully in USSR
Wed Oct 11 07:51 Comment: @ibexsalad Cain-et: meeting where you determine how to deal with your brother
Wed Oct 11 07:54 Que malos/quémalos
Wed Oct 11 08:06 Rorty's crystal ball, by a lib
Wed Oct 11 20:42 Prolific armed robber imprisoned near Barcelona files habeas corpus writ since Spanish criminal code surely no longer applies
Wed Oct 11 22:02 Crusading reviewer faceplants
Wed Oct 11 22:24 Ballad: 1st (Stephenson) locomotive (samovar on rails) Petersburg-Tsarskoe Selo (1837) attacked by bull. Organ cameo
Thu Oct 12 09:43 Maulaffe/gawker/badaud. Hence baudaderies, gawkings, whence Richard Gawkings
Thu Oct 12 10:33 Don Aminado on Goebbels' exclusion of Heine from the encyclopaedia: One rules the word, the other the dictionary
Thu Oct 12 20:20 Don Aminado: We sympathise with Abel but write poems about Cain
Thu Oct 12 22:35 New expression for me: Noddy box, where Prince Charles and property developers meet
Fri Oct 13 06:50 Mein Gott, the latest East London ammonia psycho is an idol for tens of thousands. & there's me with me silly kazoos
Fri Oct 13 07:09 More research needed into Windows 10's NQ
Fri Oct 13 07:31 A song for each Spanish provincial capital Via Miguel Castañer, who recommends Lugo (top left)
Fri Oct 13 07:33 Comment: That site looks fragile, so here:
Fri Oct 13 08:10 Comment: Los Toreros Muertos sobre el jamón turolense etc son demasiado buenos
Fri Oct 13 10:47 Gogol: þe so-called inhabitants of Naples, a people which lies stark-naked in the street all day swallowing macaroni of exorbitant longitude
Fri Oct 13 11:16 @ibexsalad
Fri Oct 13 13:32 Don Aminado: In the company of the deaf and dumb, the stutterer is considered an absurdist.
Fri Oct 13 14:35 1/3 Ranty obesemobile gridlock as usual at Lower Clapton school kicking-out time
Fri Oct 13 14:35 2/3 Substantial health benefits of chicken wings offer at Tasty Fish Bar & Best Kebab, Chatsworth Rd/Blurton Rd nullified by pollution
Fri Oct 13 14:35 3/3 Fried-chicken-lovers say: Ban all private car travel Hackney 0730-0800 + 1600-1630
Sun Oct 15 18:33 80s English cheatsheet for Spanish taxi drivers. HACER EL AMOR = FOQUIN
Sun Oct 15 18:50 Who made the deep narrow gullies on Rodborough Common, Stroud?
Sun Oct 15 20:45 Comment: @chiquitocalzada Te queremos mucho nen
Mon Oct 16 06:51 Don Aminado: It is better to sin quietly than repent loudly
Mon Oct 16 14:21 26, Hackney's version (in my head) of MVRDV's Alphabet Building in Amsterdam, with Ophelia's (actually more sulphurous) remains behind
Mon Oct 16 14:30 #RedSun . No, wait
Mon Oct 16 16:38 Trying to think of romance where Xstian knight wins his king's princess' hand after defeating her father in battle on behalf of Ottomans
Mon Oct 16 16:50 Comment: All the devices in the Russian epic I've got are in Tirant lo Blanch, in a different order. & names are like transliterated Romance
Mon Oct 16 17:03 Missing Windows 10 file previews fixed with DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
Mon Oct 16 17:42 Comment: Trigger is more like Guy of Warwick
Mon Oct 16 20:17 One crowd, one beat, one DJ: slightly over-enthusiastic troll compares raves with Nazi multimedia shows in the 30s
Mon Oct 16 21:53 Don Aminado: When throwing an anchor of salvation to a drowning man, don't necessarily try to hit him on the head
Tue Oct 17 09:49 Don Aminado: All's bad that ends badly.
Tue Oct 17 11:11 Does chilli powder gel really work against pigeons? (Theory: they walk on it, scratch their wobbly bits, don't return.)
Tue Oct 17 14:42 Don Aminado: Literate people may marry an ad, but illiterates are condemned to love
Tue Oct 17 20:24 Houdini's copy of Daniel Schwenter's 1636 (1st ed) Mathematical and Physical Delights. List of the tricks he used?
Wed Oct 18 07:21 Where do you buy sugar paste for cake decoration?
Wed Oct 18 08:42 80s Muji muzak Via Klau
Wed Oct 18 08:58 Don Aminado/Дон-Аминадо: Rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb, but spend the rest of your time with people
Wed Oct 18 13:19 Dialogue outline of satirical Karagöz play in Constantinople/Istanbul during 1877-8 Russo-Turkish
Wed Oct 18 18:16 Don Aminado: If you get beside yourself, don't forget to come back
Wed Oct 18 19:40 At least the bots are handing out cash
Wed Oct 18 22:01 Yevgeny Bonver, what a guy
Thu Oct 19 07:57 Don Aminado: Republicans struggle without a king in charge
Thu Oct 19 11:10 Keum boo revisited
Thu Oct 19 19:53 Far easier to focus on Hollywood
Thu Oct 19 21:04 Mmmmmm
Thu Oct 19 21:16 Mind-blowing thread on using hops to clear the way for wild yeasts in starter cultures
Fri Oct 20 07:00 Don Aminado: Though your belly lie on the altar of the fatherland, keep on thinking with your head.
Fri Oct 20 07:16 Bagpipes & gramophones for Antarctic penguins Dogs generally more interested in pigs/monkeys than barrel organs
Fri Oct 20 08:49 Ale production customs of the middle classes of the English people
Fri Oct 20 11:18 WWE wrestling in pre-1917 Samara (Volga): Vanka Cain (bent copper), Jap Saraka, "the negro Bambula," champ of Egypt
Fri Oct 20 13:54 I hope they've used enough glue
Sat Oct 21 09:54 Don Animado: Do not immediately think ill of all your neighbours, work through them one by one.
Sat Oct 21 12:01 Don Aminado: You can't slam the door if you have been thrown out of the window.
Sat Oct 21 13:06 Once played just round the corner, but never saw the Zaandam house where Peter the Great stayed in 1697 as apprentice Dutch shipbuilder
Sat Oct 21 18:56 Don Aminado: Delusions wound, magnanimity kills.
Sun Oct 22 21:24 Don Aminado: Love humanity as much as you want, but don't demand reciprocity.
Mon Oct 23 07:19 Shocking increase in number, size, speed of cars in rural Hampshire this century. Often worse than suburban London, without pavement/lights
Mon Oct 23 07:31 Comment: Not taking exercise is a life-saving strategy
Mon Oct 23 20:49 Don Aminado: The point of longevity is to outlive your creditors.
Tue Oct 24 06:29 Still my favourite bit of Franglais
Tue Oct 24 06:30 Comment: You can still tell Bill Bailey and Jacques Brel apart, though: Brel talks just as he sings
Tue Oct 24 06:51 @tombcn Bolshevik Tom: Soviet anti-American kiddie prop
Tue Oct 24 07:08 Dementure: Hackney Police abbreviation for a medical condition comprising memory loss and false teeth
Tue Oct 24 12:39 Knew that stash of round pound coins would come in handy.
Tue Oct 24 12:43 Comment: When they said that they'd to take them out of circulation, I never imagined that that meant that they'd take them out of circulation
Tue Oct 24 14:20 Comment: @Transblawg Tesco has apparently dropped out, so the top 3 are now Aldi, Iceland, Poundland. One is definitely counterfeit.
Tue Oct 24 14:40 Comment: @Transblawg Probably have, the swine. I started noticing pounds being refused by the auto till ages ago and it just didn't click
Tue Oct 24 16:35 Comment: @Transblawg I think they've all stopped. Aldi's your retail redeemer till the end of the month.
Tue Oct 24 18:19 Comment: @Transblawg They still take shillings, I believe.
Wed Oct 25 07:44 Don Aminado: Rich people decorate the table with flowers and with poor relatives.
Wed Oct 25 07:53 Astrud - "Noam Chomsky is in love with you" - 2007
Wed Oct 25 11:20 The organ-grinder's in the brown jacket behind
Wed Oct 25 11:30 National Rail Enquiries is so impossibly lame, even compared with Renfe
Wed Oct 25 17:54 I love thes
Wed Oct 25 17:54 Comment: Free e: e
Thu Oct 26 06:42 Sierra Leonese undertakers in the shirts of Real Valladolid
Thu Oct 26 07:22 Montserrat isn't as close as it looks, and its monks are neither clever nor charming
Thu Oct 26 07:41 Comment: @anne_goldgar ¡Esos no son cebollas!
Sat Oct 28 15:36 Today's the feast of Jude the Apostle, patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes
Sat Oct 28 18:04 Don Aminado: Proverbs are an expression of folk art, but so are gallows.
Sun Oct 29 09:12 Comment: @ibexsalad
Sun Oct 29 09:14 Por fin pillo el anuncio de Ikea
Sun Oct 29 10:33 No gag will stop a lawyer's tongue - William Combe's Dr Syntax
Sun Oct 29 11:21 I have a feeling this is not going to work on a Nokia 100
Sun Oct 29 11:57 Phonetic Polish map of England: Southend > Saufend (= present participle of German saufen, drink: Oh I do like to booze beside the seaside)
Sun Oct 29 15:52 Spanish animal lovers signal appalling case of mistreatment of Tyrannosaurus rex
Mon Oct 30 16:50 In Barcelona I do hereby witnesseth no freaking sign of the republic
Mon Oct 30 22:59 @KRLS Puigdemont tocando sax en Holanda
Tue Oct 31 08:41 Whatever you do, don't take away Our vacuous Zombie for the Day @BBCr4today
Tue Oct 31 08:52 Retro or retard?
Tue Oct 31 09:03 Litcrit, you have failed! No decent comparison of Ignatius J. Reilly & Oblomov
Tue Oct 31 19:40 Fightback by Vueling employees against invasive gerund-participle
Tue Oct 31 19:44 Comment: @carlesenric Caracas, conexión en ... Madrid. No, wait.
Tue Oct 31 20:35 Comment: @carlesenric Via Moscú a Moldova? Su mujer es de cerca de la frontera y es fácil viajar entre los dos
Tue Oct 31 21:54 Comment: @miquelroig @KRLS @EUPARTYEFA Yo iría a Moscú y luego Moldova, donde mi mujer tiene una casa al otro lado de la frontera con Romania