Singing Organ-Grinder tweets for April

Disclaimer

SingingOrganGrinder
@elorganillero

• 2018-04-30 19:42 I'll never have his job, he'll never get mine https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/991009901496422400
• 2018-04-30 12:11 Daan Kersbergen's Jan Klaassen (Pulcinella) show on the Dam in Amsterdam in 1970 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jean-paul-margnac/365079514/in/album-72157623604309552/
  • 2018-04-30 11:59 And the Alcázar of Toledo, still in ruins from the siege during the Civil War, has now been rebuilt
  • 2018-04-30 11:58 And here he is again three years later, in 1958, on a motorbike https://www.flickr.com/photos/jean-paul-margnac/sets/72157603854648010
• 2018-04-30 11:54 I know the concrete anonymity and mass tourism of 21st century Spain is progressive & splendid, but oh! to be able to step back into this album posted by Jean-Paul Margnac https://www.flickr.com/photos/jean-paul-margnac/sets/72157637566704436/
  • 2018-04-30 06:31 @Transblawg I'm afraid my lot were also Joneses at one stage
  • 2018-04-29 20:18 @Transblawg Son of Elwyn Jones
• 2018-04-29 19:18 The scholar
  
  • 2018-04-29 19:07 @Transblawg As in: I hate you You hate me Tinky Winky shot Dipsy With a great big bang And a hole in the head Sorry Laa Laa Dipsy’s Dead https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3666083/The-nursery-rhyme-collector.html
  • 2018-04-29 19:05 @Transblawg Patronising pap. I was just thinking that if only dear Dan Jones would actually get round to publishing The Singing Playground (or whatever his monstrous collection of children's rhymes was going to be called a decade ago), then how exciting life would be https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/may/08/schools.uk1
  • 2018-04-29 18:58 @ibexsalad Got a geodesic dome in the garage if you know any buyers
• 2018-04-29 17:33 Adults (not children) always want The Wheels on the Bus, but I can't do it any more. I hate it. It's a terrible song. 10 Green Bottles is as far as I'll go down that road.
• 2018-04-29 17:22 Best Smithfield's market song: Momus, Pervert Doppelganger: "where refrigerated lorries unload dead cows"
  
  • 2018-04-29 17:18 @oldmudgie @mjt_1970 Ex banker down the road can't push into poor fat people's houses to lecture them, so confronts them on the street & demands they sign up to her cooking courses
  • 2018-04-29 08:58 Last Sun's 6AM encounters: junkie ripping out block's electrics, posh Spanish raving @ Hackney Marsh, Leyton acupuncturist closing "we have to go back to China to do something very important", Thai ladyboy in tears on phone, Bangladeshi throwing rubbish onto street from 5th floor
• 2018-04-29 08:54 River Lea smells of elderflower this morning
• 2018-04-28 15:35 Epic cab ride with barrel organ & Istanbul/Wood Green driver back from @LeytonFood: "Looks like a good market. So what kind of food have they got? Any Turks, any Greeks?" "Nope." "OK, I'm sick of driving for XY, I'm going back now to try to rent a stall for next week" @wfcouncil
  • 2018-04-28 08:14 Perhaps the problem's there in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: 7 ungerim swyðe ænlices folces forð mid = and with them a countless number of very unique/incomparable folk as well http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/e/e-L.html
• 2018-04-28 07:51 In Spanish people also use "unique" absolutely or relatively, but afaik without the debate with (anti-)clerical tones about whether something can be beyond compare. Quevedo on the "very unique" shirts of the charity scholars of Salamanca (Los sopones de Salamanca):
  
  • 2018-04-27 21:43 @ifyoutickleus It'll be interesting to see whether priority is also demanded by other populations which emphasise speed, e.g. those from Mediterranean countries
• 2018-04-27 20:53 Chilean organ-grinder & chinchinero in the puppet museum on Tibidabo, Barcelona. Hoped it would be representation of me, but memories are short https://twitter.com/OrganillerosMex/status/989967956833718276
• 2018-04-27 20:49 Perhaps re Korea & the Trump Nobel: Time squats in our present, devouring our future and excreting our past. Trying to imagine what kind of face the Angel of History might then have, eyes to the past and mouth to the future http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/about-time.html
  • 2018-04-27 20:23 @GouldingChris @kjhealy I thought that was just me. Ditto Dutch motorways with "Uit"
• 2018-04-27 18:25 A Greek trying to convince a German. I'm trying to think of a German with big gestures. Even Karajan was incredibly restrained. https://twitter.com/MehreenKhn/status/989758391416340480
• 2018-04-27 15:15 Another year, another conference, and still @SAGB hasn't booked me to sing Miley Cyrus' terrifying epic, "Pablow the blowfish", which deals with the four large teeth of her pet, which, fused into an upper & lower plate, are used for crushing the shells of crustaceans and mollusks
  • 2018-04-27 14:51 @steve_guy Yeah, but he thinks some animals are more equal than others
  • 2018-04-27 14:45 @steve_guy ‘Toad Hall,’ said the Toad proudly, ‘is an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence, very unique.’
  • 2018-04-27 14:36 @steve_guy More unusual, yes, but there'd still only be one of you, and you still wouldn't be able to say "unique New York" ten times without dribbling hopelessly
  • 2018-04-27 14:15 @steve_guy But the "one" already qualifies the "kind" & you've just said that you can't qualify the "one"? How about pursuing the "unusual" usage: you have 100 dogs, 1 with 2 heads, & 100 cats, 2 with 2 heads; can you say that the bicephalic dog is statistically more unique than the cats?
• 2018-04-27 14:08 @SuttonHouseNT Just wondering whether the water meter personhole cover should be rotated thru 180º to make it fit. Um.
  • 2018-04-27 14:02 @Transblawg Twitter threading is shite, isn't it. Someone should invent a different kind of platform that does proper content and commenting delivery. They should call it a blog.
  • 2018-04-27 09:59 @Transblawg Ah, yes!
  • 2018-04-27 09:58 @Transblawg Think I'll give that one a miss & focus on me Chas & Dave ballads
  • 2018-04-27 09:56 @steve_guy Oops, relied on Gog's tweet generator. Relativists often say that people are qualifying cos "unique" sometimes means "unusual" but I think it's just our monkey brain saying "put bigger tyres on me Mini" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=quite+unique%2Cvery+unique%2Cabsolutely+unique%2Cuniquely+unique&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cquite%20unique%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cvery%20unique%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cabsolutely%20unique%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cuniquely%20unique%3B%2Cc0
  • 2018-04-27 09:06 @Transblawg Advantage of longevity. Wunderlich nostalgia: I used to know a failed Dutch operatic tenor who sat in a bar doing Fritz impressions. He probably fell downstairs while drunk too
• 2018-04-27 08:58 Why I bet 6 months ago that Trump would win the Nobel Peace Prize: hidden connection between his orange sun lotion & Korea: http://www.myseoulsearching.com/2013/05/the-colors-of-korea-orange.html
  • 2018-04-27 07:54 @Transblawg I'm very conscious of not having spoken German got several decades, so when I do my bleeding chunk from Mahler Zwei blauen Augen I tend to use the Dutch translation - like anyone would notice. In English it sounds silly
  • 2018-04-27 07:43 @Transblawg Ooh, I wish! I wish I could find a recording of Fritz Wunderlich, but Rudolf Schock's facial expression always makes me laugh I suppose it might work, calmed down a bit, and I'd be most happy to sing it for your MP
    
• 2018-04-27 07:20 Ngram 1800-2000 of comparative/superlative modifiers of 'unique': '[quite unique]', '[very unique]', '[absolutely unique]', '[uniquely unique]', . https://twitter.com/share?text=Google%20Ngram%20Viewer:%20%27[quite%20unique]%27,%20%27[very%20unique]%27,%20%27[absolutely%20unique]%27,%20%27[uniquely%20unique]%27,%201800-2000%20in%20English
• 2018-04-26 20:54 I love people who ruin keyboards - check the vid at the end http://www.noystoise.com/2018/04/fun-years.html
  • 2018-04-26 20:53 @PostOffice It didn't occur to you that we looked at that page before ringing the helpline a week ago? I'm sure you don't mean to take the pi$$, but...
  • 2018-04-26 20:51 @Transblawg Oh dear, oh dear, and our mayor's a beard too. Candidate I'd be least unlikely to support to run our rotten borough is the WEP barrister, but all pretty dismal.
  • 2018-04-26 17:03 @PostOffice Haha, well that was a waste of time!
  • 2018-04-26 17:00 @ibexsalad Incredible guy http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/09/24/alfred-hitchcock-in-leytonstone/
  • 2018-04-26 16:59 @PostOffice The original callcentre guy last Friday was apparently meant to have asked us to do some tests, but didn't.
  • 2018-04-26 16:58 @PostOffice No.
  • 2018-04-26 16:51 @Transblawg It's the pretzel knot that kills me. I mean, how incredibly useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretzel_link
• 2018-04-26 16:50 Journey to the home of Hitchcock https://twitter.com/Transblawg/status/988838874586763264
  • 2018-04-26 16:49 @PostOffice Cancellation of tomorrow & rescheduling for Monday was received in voicemail at ca 16:20 today
  • 2018-04-26 16:42 @PostOffice E9, reported Friday 20th AM, fix promised by Wednesday, guy booked to come tomorrow cancelled, rebooked for Monday 30th
• 2018-04-26 15:59 Dear Lord, why does so much rice get stuck in the crevice separating the sieve from its frame?
• 2018-04-26 15:41 Innit great living at the heart of thrusting hi-tech London: just entering second week without landline or internet. Ta, Post Office
  • 2018-04-25 15:47 Photo by @LittleStormDes
• 2018-04-25 15:47 Geezer's got his safety helmet on & is plucking up courage to hi5 me. Much more popular in England than in Spain, where, after one school session, all 90 kids spontaneously formed a queue to give me a proper old-style handshake. Teachers were cool with it: 10 min off next lesson
  
  • 2018-04-25 13:57 Calls are presumably VOIP routed thru 01223-851778 which belongs to Magrathea & has track record of facilitating spam
• 2018-04-25 13:52 How do you know when your landline's down? No cold-call phishing from the Indian gents in the employ of Donald M Rees of Llanelli aka DMR Financial Services
• 2018-04-24 12:38 Mandek Penha (anagram: naked hep man): When I Touch my Leg More on the Church of Sarrean Alignment
  https://weirdestbandintheworld.com/2018/04/23/weird-band-of-the-week-mandek-penha/
• 2018-04-24 10:05 Wish people would stop talking bollox about the Bard: Sheikh's Pier is from Eastbourne. "Mr Gulzar said fishing on the pier was dangerous and an excuse to drink cider" https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/695656/Pier-owner-who-is-going-for-gold-angers-locals
  • 2018-04-24 09:13 No sound in the BL, but I think Harry Worth is doing "Let's all go to Civic" at 0:57 in this compilation, after which you may wish to turn off
    
• 2018-04-24 09:07 Tall, powerful, Kings Cross type strolling down Percy Circus chanting "Lenin was a vanker" to the tune of Harry Worth's "Let's all do the conga." "I mean, what a cant, might as well put up a plaque to Adolf Hitler." Excellent page on the circus by Jack: http://www.locallocalhistory.co.uk/municipal-housing/percy/index.htm
  
  • 2018-04-24 08:51 @Transblawg I'm no lipreader, but perhaps that's what he's saying to you
  • 2018-04-23 13:51 @mandyist Nokia 100, I'm afraid. Guy was laying out the pebbles this morning. I'll see how far he's got this afty
  • 2018-04-23 13:31 Beats per minute vs bites per minute - read it all https://www.improbable.com/2018/04/23/beats-per-minute-affects-bites-per-minute/
• 2018-04-23 13:27 V pleasant lunchtime had Saturday at the Leytonstone Food Market on Church Lane - impeccable organisation, bright sunshine & an (uncooked) white rabbit. I'm back next Saturday at 13:00, hopefully with a 5-year-old guest singer @LeytonFood @wfcouncil Photos by @Transblawg
  
  
• 2018-04-23 13:04 16,016 BBC Sound Effects & not a single barrel organ http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk
  • 2018-04-23 12:57 @julianpharrison @BLMedieval @britishlibrary So, no sibling called Dragon yet
• 2018-04-23 11:29 Londoners aren't interested any more if you tell them you've just bumped into a red kite. But are they eating kebabs like everything else, or stuff left out in gardens?
• 2018-04-23 10:00 Job that's probably less fun than it looks: renovating the pebbles & mosaics on Freeform 1980s florists & sheep on London Fields. Menacing pre-renovation pic: @mandyist http://www.emminlondon.com/2012/11/a-gorgeous-saturday-morning-in-broadway.html
• 2018-04-20 10:12 Paris mayor from Cádiz, so no reason in principle (law?) why someone born in Barcelona (tho with French passport) shouldn't be mayor there. Anyone prepared to bet that Cs will still be below 30% in the national elections in 2020? https://twitter.com/LaVanguardia/status/987243261369647104
  • 2018-04-20 07:23 @oobr Do those figures include the hacked ones used extensively for neighbourhood deliveries by London teenagers?
• 2018-04-20 07:20 Survey spam from 'Which?' Thought they'd promised to stop using prize draws
  
• 2018-04-19 20:36 Top Spanish allergologist mate who rescued me from nasty pine processionary caterpillar attack said that the only way of curing anything was to take twice the recommended dose of the next grade up. Notoriously cautious bloke. #hayfever
  • 2018-04-19 17:34 @SBaltimoreBoy @BLMedieval Could have been a great soccer player
  • 2018-04-19 15:11 @BLMedieval What's it all about, Alfie?
    
• 2018-04-19 12:05 Can't get enough of that photo https://twitter.com/wfcouncil/status/986909808732397568
• 2018-04-19 12:04 Walthamstow Marsh particularly Noël Cowardy this lunchtime. The drones will eventually decapitate someone but dogs will take care of the remains
  
  • 2018-04-19 09:29 @ArchitectsJrnal @MarleyEternit I suppose it's too late to enter my barrel organ.
• 2018-04-19 09:21 May try out my first Polish song https://twitter.com/UrbanEASTa/status/986881060532350976
• 2018-04-18 16:21 Non-stop mechanical music from Cornwall... https://twitter.com/dundonradio/status/986318018073579526
• 2018-04-18 06:32 Looking forward to singing at the new Leytonstone food market Saturday, but a bit short of local numbers - "Orient, Orient, Orient" probably won't hack it. Suggestions? @wfcouncil @LeytonFood @WFculture19 https://walthamforest.gov.uk/content/celebrate-spring-four-new-markets-leytonstone
  • 2018-04-17 19:23 via @lordbonkers
  • 2018-04-17 19:23 More Clapton images https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/search?keywords=Clapton&country=global&year=all
• 2018-04-17 19:22 Clapton Stadium, Hackney Power Station, Millfields South, Lea Bridge pumping station, filter beds, depot (RIP, but not the house), curious objects on Leyton Marsh
  
• 2018-04-17 08:33 On at 11 https://twitter.com/wfcouncil/status/986144979285348352
  • 2018-04-12 21:18 Rhyme of harem & (Eugene) Aram is inspired
• 2018-04-12 21:17 Orwell A happy vicar I might have been Two hundred years ago To preach upon eternal doom And watch my walnuts grow; But born, alas, in an evil time, I missed that pleasant haven, For the hair has grown on my upper lip And the clergy are all clean-shaven. http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/i-wasnt-born-for-age-like-this.html
• 2018-04-12 16:19 The red told my confused mind these were steel chilli ploughs, and close inspection would reveal a field of Capsicum https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/984462636434841600
  • 2018-04-12 16:13 @soxgnasher Nice one! The hole my foggy brain didn't twig for ages was this http://leabridge.org.uk/nature-and-open-space/bomb-crater-pond.html
  • 2018-04-12 15:32 Eureka moment like the shell hole pond on Walthamstow
• 2018-04-12 15:29 At last I understand the ground level differentials on Leyton Marsh: Blitz rubble https://twitter.com/soxgnasher/status/984452369453912065
  • 2018-04-12 13:54 Communist sex witches: The shuttle flies, the loom creaks loud, Night and day we weave your shroud, Social democrat, at your shroud we sit, We’re weaving a threefold curse in it, We’re weaving, we’re weaving! https://morbidbooks.net/2018/04/12/from-a-void-2-ask-a-shamanic-communist-radical-life-advice-with-stewart-home/
• 2018-04-12 13:39 Till Death us do Part viii. 135 What are you talking about, you great hairy pilloch?
  • 2018-04-12 12:46 De Ster in Hengelo, old-school provincial Dutch bar, one-time watering place of Arie Stronks
    
  • 2018-04-12 12:39
    
  • 2018-04-12 12:38 @Transblawg Tadpole?
• 2018-04-12 12:33 Gerrit Bellers canoe-dling
  
  • 2018-04-12 12:29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gagarin-Poyekhali.ogg
• 2018-04-12 12:29 The Clonmacnoise airship https://twitter.com/PeritiaEditors/status/984330852195856385
  • 2018-04-12 12:15 @Transblawg My name is Diogenes I live in a tub I work best when I'm starkers Or pissed in the pub
• 2018-04-12 12:04 Dear authors, if you can't define the difference between a colon & a semi, then either stop using them or turn over on your front and let me take a cattle prod and explain
  • 2018-04-12 06:51 @azforeman LITHP ith thaid to be utheful in proceththing lithtth
• 2018-04-12 06:38 By a long chalk the most popular page on my website: Come on people, this is far more interesting: http://elorganillero.com/la-compania/el-organillero/lenguas/traductor-castellano-andaluz/ http://elorganillero.com/la-compania/repertorio/by-genre/self-referential-organ-grinding-songs/
• 2018-04-12 06:32 Mairzy Doats
  http://languagehat.com/in-fir-tar-is/
• 2018-04-12 06:27 Iggy & Cristiano. I don't think I want to discover the truth re the old story about the Ig's reasons for alleged rib removal https://salmonetesyanonosquedan.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/iggy-cristiano.html
• 2018-04-12 06:20 Someone explain to me why Spanish voters have been pretty much impervious to massive and comprehensive evidence of universal embezzlement and incompetence, but throw a tiz on discovering that politicians have corruptly obtained useless bits of paper from degree mills.
• 2018-04-12 05:17 RT @JaneyGodley: Imagine the #ZUCKERBURG hearing was in Glasgow #ZUCKERBURG #janeygodleyvoiceover
  
• 2018-04-11 20:32 Beautiful old photo of the Beehive (now flats) & the Robin Hood (demolished) just along from the Anchor & Hope on the Lea Navigation at Clapton https://twitter.com/soxgnasher/status/984156885992591361
• 2018-04-11 15:31 Videos claiming geographical exclusivity ("Only in Milwaukee") invariably show the most universal of human traits (desire of obese men to dress up in bikini & heels before shopping in the pound store)
• 2018-04-11 11:27 Why do publishers of musical cards never check their example with someone who can read music? Like website localisation by someone who once went to London https://twitter.com/dem_doodles/status/983747383623372801
• 2018-04-11 11:24 Mupdate: patch released by childish clown
• 2018-04-11 09:54 Heaven will have fluffing horn players
  
• 2018-04-11 09:35 The Kremlin would have some sympathy if it started poisoning pigeons instead of people. Combating spring onslaught of the randy buggers is like being housemaster in private school boarding house
• 2018-04-10 20:55 Wheels, bus
  
• 2018-04-10 16:13 Santiago de Compostela Effect - one person's shrine makes some money so everyone opens one https://twitter.com/ibexsalad/status/983737398327758848
• 2018-04-10 15:41 Herodotus on the Massagetae: Though they fix no certain term to life, yet when a man is very old all his family meet together and kill him, with beasts of the flock besides, then boil the flesh and feast on it.
  • 2018-04-10 14:00 Not their fault we don't want to be improved
• 2018-04-10 13:59 Just can't help translating corporateSpeak "démarche de progrès" as "Great Leap Forward"
• 2018-04-10 08:25 Dog walkers live in fear of the Hampstead Russians
  
• 2018-04-10 07:23 Obviously kids want to delay arrival at school, but there must be a better way than sitting in a traffic jam https://twitter.com/lordbonkers/status/983474443715600385
• 2018-04-09 17:25 Rural Hampshire on a Monday: toxic smoke from builders burning the interiors of Victorian houses under demolition; lardy arses barrelling down tiny lanes in huge vans to bring packs of surgical gloves to geriatrics; a lady goose stepping on Botley station to keep her abs in order
• 2018-04-09 15:39 Dodgy sales of public land offshore, inc by part of the Mayor of London's Office https://twitter.com/darkgreener/status/983295807129575424
• 2018-04-09 15:32 Already appalled by the attack in Münster, scene of some of my best(-catered) gigs, but now the Mirror etc. have mistaken a verb for the surname of the suspect. FFS, use Google Translate, morons https://twitter.com/Transblawg/status/983307260880392193
  • 2018-04-08 22:40 The Russian version [of a Baudelaire thing] was due to the pen of Merejkovsky, who had even less poetical talent than Balmont. It began like this: My sweet little bride. Let’s go for a ride; Promptly it begot a rollicking tune and was adopted by all organ-grinders of Russia.
• 2018-04-08 22:38 1941 Nabokov rant on translating Russian lit: The third, & worst, degree of turpitude is reached when a masterpiece is planished and patted into such a shape, vilely beautified in such a fashion as to conform to the notions & prejudices of a given public https://newrepublic.com/article/62610/the-art-translation
  • 2018-04-08 22:27 Comparison of various translations by Miss Lupine Lady https://sites.google.com/site/tolstoytranslations/tolstoy/war-and-peace
• 2018-04-08 22:17 The Briggs translation of War & Peace "risks sounding like a child’s pirate movie made by Australians" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/04/found-in-translation/304725/
• 2018-04-08 22:03 I always get this one wrong
  https://twitter.com/Ergophizmizplc/status/983099425760448512
• 2018-04-08 22:01 Imogen Holst says that Gustav heard the tune in the Brook Green Suite, 3rd mvt at 04:21 at a puppet show in Sicily Rings no bells here
  
• 2018-04-08 13:55 Curious about Madam Glass, Bristol piano teacher in the 1930s/40s, visited in hospital there by Myra Hess and Irene Scharrer ca 1947. Anything to do with the pianist/teacher Richard Glas, pupil of Leopold Godowsky in Vienna?
• 2018-04-06 06:47 Eric Bristow 180
  
  • 2018-04-06 06:07 Presumably interest in potential of Mother Shipton in 1820 because of Reform & Peterloo
• 2018-04-06 06:06 Lovely picture in link of City's C17th (?) weathervane dragon on steeple of Mary-le-Bow, subject (Timbs, Curiosities of London) of a Ma Shipton prophecy re London carnage if met Exchange's grasshopper, which happened in 1820 @thegentleauthor http://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/04/06/the-weathervanes-of-london/
  
  
• 2018-04-05 17:15 Lammy blaming the Albanians, the Albanians the Jamaicans, & Sadiq the (white) Westminstrians recalls an oldskool Islington council tenants meeting where peace between God's peoples was only restored when someone announced that he was there to represent the squatters
  • 2018-04-05 06:46 Cylindrical wheels and squealing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelset_(rail_transport)#Semi-conical_shape
• 2018-04-05 06:45 Nice vid showing value of train wheelset conicity WP says that
  
• 2018-04-04 20:02 Some fool says the couplet "Your pedal extremities are colossal,/To me you look just like a fossil" sounds better than it is
  
• 2018-04-04 19:03 Author of book about Cologne Carnival says that gala jokes aren't jokes because no punchline. My experience is that most German jokes are like that http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/autor-walter-filz-mein-vater-der-karnevalist.700.de.html
• 2018-04-04 15:08 Worth checking when you sign what you think are a Green Party bod's election nomination papers that the crafty buggers haven't recruited you as a candidate
• 2018-04-04 08:59 Parody of the Sulkowicz hoohaa, brandwashing, WTF? https://www.emma-mattress.co.uk
  • 2018-04-04 08:45 @Transblawg I think I used an IBM or AT&T labs online generator. Pleasingly primitive. Google Translate's TTS is now so good that it's no fun.
• 2018-04-04 08:24 Wanna make money & connections with music? You'll need money & connections https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/04/03/1522749472000/Who-needs-the-labels-anyway-/
  • 2018-04-04 08:23 @Transblawg Used it for Punch&Judy-style computer animations for a power company 23 years ago.
  • 2018-04-03 21:00 @Transblawg OK, Amazon doesn't pay tax, but at least they don't pretend they're a charity
  • 2018-04-03 20:59 @Transblawg It's mental. When they recommended equipment I always thought, they're taking bungs, but now they're just an expensive version of Amazon
• 2018-04-03 20:11 Google's HTTPS push is an utter megalomaniac pain in the posterior end, designed to further massacre us dwarves https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/981131234502995969
• 2018-04-03 20:04 Terrible joke https://twitter.com/ifyoutickleus/status/981257621721223169
• 2018-04-03 20:04 When did Age UK (= Age Concern + Help the Aged) become an online retailer? https://www.ageuk.org.uk/products/
• 2018-04-03 07:51 When you're not going to be the next face on Gramophone mag: “They worked hard. But they worked hard to turn me into a trained monkey. Anyone can become a monkey. Even a chimpanzee can become a concert violinist.” Via @lordbonkers https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/nyregion/redemption-of-a-lost-prodigy.html
• 2018-04-02 21:21 Amongst lesser-known masterworks of early Spanish science, a "Treatise in which is proved that snow is cold and wet", published in 1630 by the incorrigible barber of Córdoba, Lucas de Valdés y Toro http://datos.bne.es/edicion/a4523185.html
• 2018-04-02 19:40 The duck quacketh https://twitter.com/BL_prints/status/980859754921758722
• 2018-04-02 08:41 Dan Geesin kind of thinks it's fine to say "google it up" What’s the meaning, Huh? What’s the meaning of life What’s the meaning, Huh? What’s the meaning of life I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up I’m going to g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g google it up https://dangeesin.bandcamp.com/track/google-it-up
• 2018-04-01 19:33 633 Squadron, one of the first tunes I played with a brass band, & a Ron Goodwin classic. Still haven't seen the film #RAF100
  
• 2018-04-01 09:16 C8th BC bronze with articulated arm of Astarte (one of whose symbols is the lion) found at Cerro del Carambolo, Seville is definitely the origin of the East Asian lucky cat
  
• 2018-04-01 09:07 Manolo Escobar as Sweeney Todd v2 https://twitter.com/gontzallargo/status/980364282960498688
  • 2018-04-01 08:33 (Seen at the brilliant UCL Italian film club ) https://uclitalianfilmclub.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/italia-doc-2-0-screening-of-pagani-on-tuesday-27-march/
• 2018-04-01 08:31 You think you've got a reasonable handle on spoken Italian, and then you see the tranny sisterhoods of Pagani and it's back to square no. 1 https://vimeo.com/204355412
  • 2018-04-01 08:25 @ibexsalad Those of Montpellier have a strong claim to those waters, since its their wee that washes down the coast
  • 2018-04-01 08:21 When that Aprilis, with his showers swoot, The drought of March hath pierced to the root Because it definitely didn't rain in March this year
• 2018-04-01 08:15 The loss of the idea of trad pub open to everyone (did it really exist?) is also the loss of the ability to really understand the Canterbury Tales & Quixote. What we get instead are closed societies like the villa of the Decamerone

Disclaimer

Bizarrely, Twitter archive downloads don't include others' replies to your tweets, or tweets to which you reply, e.g.:

/ I say something
// Someone replies
/// I reply to them

... and so it's impossible to show tweet trees involving third parties correctly. Until I figure out something smarter I've just indented my replies, & good luck and bon voyage.

Similar posts

• July tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder
  
• The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October
  More rubbish.
• The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September
  A rubbish heap in which a Ukrainian nuclear fireman finds romance with Willie Nelson.
• June tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder
  More barrel organ news from Hackney. Includes first posts from Top 10 Russian Football Song series.
• The Singing Organ Grinder’s tweet archive for February 2018
  Another abundance of redundance. Featuring Russian, German and Italian puppetry, organ-grinding, and other nonsense.