The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October

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• 2018-10-31 13:53 Tech/politics Halloween story: Shiri’s Scissor http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
• 2018-10-31 13:37 Every time I walk through "rural" Hampshire a banker leans over a fence to tell me that sycamore poisons horses. This is what I'll chant back next time. https://twitter.com/lordbonkers/status/1057602551334473728
• 2018-10-30 10:18 If venta (Venta Belgarum (Winchester), also Silurum/Icenorum) really < Common Brittonic, etymology is surely popular Latin vendita < vendere, sell, like French vente, Portuguese venda, notably Spanish venta - markets with simple accommodation - Libro del Buen Amor, Quijote...
  
  
  
• 2018-10-30 08:51 Sword ID fail. The Met's Ladbrokes robberies case says samurai, but not curved. Neither is it the popular machete - not broad, heavy, shaped. Looks like a long utility knife, an amateurish ninjatō, and ninja, unlike samurai, are dishonourable thugs http://news.met.police.uk/news/gang-jailed-following-series-of-armed-robberies-329607
  
• 2018-10-30 07:20 Chordi has photos of the startling new poster-mural in the C16th church of la Scorziata round the corner from Piazza San Gaetano in central Naples, which has been sacked of its antiquities and wrecked over the past 40 years (PS the Caravaggio was a copy) https://madbar2.blogspot.com/2018/10/zilda-y-la-scorziate-napolitana.html
• 2018-10-30 07:12 Curious that Rome opposes subjecting small boys to sex changes when this will provide a large pool of castrati, enabling authentic performance of large portions of the Baroque & Classical (sacred) repertoire https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TGMEt90di3EJ:https://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php/articles/7672+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
  • 2018-10-29 17:10 Ei hoeve tu regrétt, biing aes yiett so littl cônversent in this Inglisch lênguetsch, uitsch obleitschës - miy, tu seh, in averi fiú words, theat ei em môhst grêtful for yur congratuleschens end gud uishes, end heili, flatterd, bei yur allucheon, to mei brother
• 2018-10-29 17:09 Speech written phonetically for Queen Victoria's Coburgian mum, who spoke German and French and probably a bit of Italian, but no English (source: Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.)
  
• 2018-10-29 16:54 An autumnal blow from the (Church of England) phallocracy in the parish magazine of Derrington & Haughton (Stafford). The departure of the rector of Haughton (f) is said to be coincidental.
  
• 2018-10-29 11:08 Only Czech poem to feature Clacton-on-Sea: he loved her and left her, I think. By Pavel Jirásek. Unfortunately his and Marie's puppet exhibition opens the day one leaves Brno http://www.brnopoeticke.cz/index.php?lang=cs&id=82&kam=basnici#basnici
• 2018-10-28 18:27 Video laxative https://twitter.com/Transblawg/status/1055883975946915840
• 2018-10-28 18:24 Jay scavenging on Cartwright Gardens London WC1, following sighting in E9 in July (. More here from Urban J: http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/08/04/july-tweets-from-londons-singing-organ-grinder/
  
• 2018-10-28 18:19 Unusual rabbit. https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1056365216009740289
  • 2018-10-26 10:46 History: coming soon http://www.georgeandthedragongnosall.com
    
• 2018-10-26 10:40 V excited about annual visit to George & the Dragon at Gnosall http://www.georgeandthedragongnosall.com
• 2018-10-26 10:02 TfL: geographic expansionism vs financial decline http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-tfl-polygon.html
• 2018-10-26 08:18 RT @9bills: EXPLAINED: The Difference Between UK Rappers & US Rappers 😂😂😂
  
• 2018-10-26 08:17 Hop not hat
  
  • 2018-10-26 07:07 No I haven't. Scrimshaw, etymology unknown: 1821 Light breezes and pleasant weather. All hands employed scrimshonting. So ends this day. 1836 Work all dun. An idle head is a workshop for the devil. Employed scrimshan. 1840 All hands employed scrimshorning.
  • 2018-10-26 07:02 At last I know what a tracing board is , though I've forgotten the word for ornaments carved from marine mammal bones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_board
• 2018-10-26 06:42 Masonic doggerel on a jar at : "A little health, a little wealth, A little house, and freedom; And at the end a little friend, And little cause to need him." Gin, morphine, a microdeity? Better than the Wilfred Owen variation in image? http://freemasonry.london.museum/three-centuries-of-english-freemasonry/
  
• 2018-10-25 12:28 Stroud (Hants) pesthouse apples are the best
• 2018-10-25 12:26 3 lawyers vs 3 MBAs https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/10/24/trade-secrets/
• 2018-10-21 13:02 Mills Brothers, Just a dream (at sunset / of you, dear)
  
• 2018-10-21 10:08 Worst YouTube vid ever? Stained Glass Attitudes does Cumbria
  
• 2018-10-21 10:02 Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease, If ever deed of honour did thee please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms http://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2018/10/voices-of-earlier-english-miltons.html
• 2018-10-21 09:56 RIP Wim Kok, who as prime minister I used to bump into as we cycled to workplaces: "Goedemorgen, meneer Kok." "Goedemorgen." Then came 9/11 and the murders of Pim Fortuyn & Theo van Gogh.
  • 2018-10-21 08:06 Much of this Ravilian landscape will be destroyed by the North Uttlesford new town planned between Great Chesterford & Great Abington, of course: http://www.stopnutown.org.uk/
• 2018-10-21 08:02 Great glory of Fry Art Gallery at Saffron Walden is being able to walk north over the chalk (northern rim of London Basin) to Chesterfords etc. (Why did Ravilious, Bawden etc. live at Great Bardfield on the clay.?) Malodorous greens now instead of downland flowers, but still...
  • 2018-10-19 14:41 @elilee_ Other face of the Khashoggi coin is non-Turkish descendants of Ottoman subjects with etymologically Turkish surnames - consequence of aggressive Ottomanisation/Turkification of names e.g. in Turkey via Mustafa Kemal's Ask the Armenians... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname_Law
  • 2018-10-19 11:39 Death must be Viennese
    
  • 2018-10-19 11:38 Original
    
• 2018-10-19 11:37 Looking for a Vienna hotel in mail and one finds a barrel organ version of Georg Kreisler's telephone book polka , communicated years ago by @Transblawg
  
• 2018-10-19 09:34 "The Cowboy's Last Wish" - beautiful song, but now raises too many eyebrows. This is Marc Williams, aka "The Cowboy Crooner," but there's also a great version by Burl Ives entitled "The Cowboy's Lament"
  
• 2018-10-19 08:59 Still broken-hearted cos @greggs on T Court Road wouldn't reheat a steak & cheese roll that had unaccountably got cold just before closing time
• 2018-10-19 07:59 I've often thought that hillforts would make great carparks (ditto cathedrals - put in a couple of extra floors....) https://twitter.com/CarlowWeather/status/1053026427027824640
• 2018-10-19 06:16 Muted "vibrant"
• 2018-10-18 16:33 You just pop out for a couple of decades and the bugger goes and builds a boat in his back garden
  
• 2018-10-18 13:46 Either those are fireworks outside or the next world war has started.
• 2018-10-18 13:25 Das Lied der Drehorgel (The Organ-Grinder's Song): 1959 radio play by Dieter Fuß, set in London. An organ-grinder is shot dead, apparently because a householder can no longer bear the single tune he plays. With Horst Tappert, later Derrick
  
• 2018-10-18 13:08 RT @anniemedz: RIP the legendary Anthea Bell, translator of the Asterix series (and Sebald, etc.); the first books I loved and the origins…
• 2018-10-18 08:06 Surely potential for coalition between the Brexit, slavery, PTSD and dyslexia marches http://fitzroviapartnership.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Saturday-20th-October-MAP.pdf
  
• 2018-10-18 06:51 Self-conscious limericks: A bather whose clothing was strewed By winds which left her quite nude, Saw a man come along, And, unless I am wrong, You expected this line to be rude. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/10/18/form-and-function/
  • 2018-10-18 06:47 The dock resurrected, people of God, draining into the Lea Navigation
    
    
    
• 2018-10-18 06:39 The zombie of the Lea Bridge India Rubber Works Dock seems to have gone quiet again after rising up and flooding the dispute-riven gurdwara (in the old Ship Aground) and the new flats' underground car parks
  
  
  
• 2018-10-17 16:38 BLOG: Several Viennese musical curiosities: Karl Nagl’s claim that, unlike the Germans, Viennese organ-grinders are musicians, because they have “crank-sense.” And female yodelling with Dudlerinnen Trude Mally and Maly Nagl: http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/10/17/several-viennese-musical-curiosities/
  
• 2018-10-17 08:55 Just what I needed to cheer me up: 2019 as Partition in 1947 https://twitter.com/PolemicTMM/status/1052468475824885760
  • 2018-10-17 07:37 Compare & contrast the contemporary Ghana Police Service Band:
    
• 2018-10-17 07:36 Gold Coast Police Band Suppe's Poet & Peasant - UK tour 1947: Critical article by Nate Plageman on political context: Highlife dagomba, also 1947: http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2018/10/black-history-month-the-gold-coast-police-band.html https://sci-hub.tw/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/677276/pdf
  
• 2018-10-17 07:00 RT @countcol: The other night 3 girls ran up to me and asked if they could walk with me through the churchyard, explaining they were scared…
• 2018-10-17 06:03 RT @MattCartoonist:
  
  • 2018-10-16 13:37 @Transblawg Lovely day
    
  • 2018-10-16 12:41 @Transblawg Laudator? Age-restricted?
• 2018-10-16 10:56 Why the postman calls me "boss" http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2018/10/big-chief.html
• 2018-10-16 10:55 Dear Pepper, if you're made in Middlesex, whence the American accent?
• 2018-10-16 10:33 Who's going to maintain the heritage of Ernst Mosch? Another Dutch Egerländer band stops & the decline is similar in Germany https://www.tubantia.nl/haaksbergen/na-33-jaar-heft-haaksberger-muzikanten-zichzelf-op~a3588a68/
  • 2018-10-15 10:08 They still haven't noticed the well known Catalan chef, Jamie Oliver, whose real name is Jaume Olivé.
• 2018-10-15 10:06 "Francis Drake was a Catalan called Frances Drac": latest Catalan nationalist pseudohistory, which already embraces Columbus, Cervantes, Vinci, Shakespeare and Erasmus. https://twitter.com/jcanadellb/status/1050671089704099841
• 2018-10-15 08:01 It's about asset allocation on the part of the banks, as well as QE, (foreign) money-launderers, etc. https://twitter.com/resi_analyst/status/1051729104649773056
• 2018-10-14 19:25 RT @AcWailing: @MrHarryCole No, Harry, there's only one person who should go on our £50 notes and he should be on the front!
• 2018-10-14 19:19 Apparently the Hoch- and Deutschmeister Band still use Austro-Hungarian imperial military high pitch at ca. 460 Hz. This is incredibly exciting. Unfortunately they don't seem to have any gigs this year https://www.deutschmeister.at/
• 2018-10-14 14:19 William Cobbett's "locust tree" (Robinia pseudoacacia) scam I'll bet his beer recipe is crap too https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uikiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA303#v=onepage&q&f=false
• 2018-10-14 14:15 Industrial Revolutionaries would surely have aborted their enterprise and fled to the hills had they been granted a glimpse of TV adaptations. The BBC's North & South, dear God, not a monkey to be seen.
  • 2018-10-14 11:41 @SydneyNudist1 That is not very goodthinkful of you, Sydney Nudist.
• 2018-10-14 10:29 Motorway churches https://twitter.com/Transblawg/status/1051401150279364608
• 2018-10-14 10:29 Someone needs to edit Suburbicon down to remove the embarrassingly redundant black-white racial stuff, surely Clooney's script contribution.
• 2018-10-14 09:03 NATO threatens to bombard a man in Tarragona for arguing with his European neighbours. https://twitter.com/elmundotoday/status/1051111959922442240
  • 2018-10-12 09:35 But "tax-eaters" is a great insult.
• 2018-10-12 09:08 Cobbett - sometimes entertaining, frequently obsessively mad & nasty. Tries to defeat Malthus by claiming that rents & church capacities show medieval England more populous & prosperous, & then there's the (quite modern) anti-capitalist obsession with "Jews and jobbers"
  
  
  • 2018-10-12 07:24 @Transblawg @igavels Who'd begrudge or cavil a judge their gavel?
• 2018-10-12 07:09 Visiting all the London boroughs in optimal time is a travelling salesman problem, except you don't need to get back at the end. I guess you can still do this with the Google Maps API https://developers.google.com/optimization/routing/tsp https://twitter.com/diamondgzrblog/status/1050628884427726848
• 2018-10-12 06:01 RT @weirdestband: How many bands just changed their name to Moonmoon? https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1050050002121297922
• 2018-10-11 20:41 For some reason Corriere della Sera isn't covering the Sun exclusive about Etna collapsing and causing a tsunami that will devastate the Mediterranean Basin
• 2018-10-11 17:31 Perhaps I'm an unspeakable xenophobe, but I think the phonetic jokes in the Two Ronnies' (south Asian?) sheikh sketch are brilliant. The four candles sketch works along the same lines, tho clearly designed to encourage hatred towards Greater Londoners
  
  
• 2018-10-11 08:35 Cobbett, 1826: To buy the thing, ready made, is the taste of the day; thousands, who are housekeepers, buy their dinners ready cooked; ... a man actually advertised, in the London papers, about two month ago, to supply childless husbands with heirs!
• 2018-10-11 06:35 More evidence that Dutch and German are the same language: the Black Rats (4th Infantry) disembark at Hoek van Holland crying "Guten Morgen!"
  
• 2018-10-10 18:38 Two really poor exhibitions at CaixaForum Barcelona. Used to be a safe bet.
  
• 2018-10-10 18:13 Can you still get Google News on a desktop? Seems they forgot this vanishingly small segment
• 2018-10-10 10:38 Ngram "new library building" 1850-2008
  
• 2018-10-10 06:40 Now Google Plus is dead, maybe time for resurrection of Google Reader, killed to drive people to Plus.
• 2018-10-09 17:59 Struggling to pronounce "Autunm in love," slogan at Cocotte, Horta, Barcelona
• 2018-10-09 09:58 BLOG: The Russian folk song in the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona: I thought it was a recent version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka theme, but it turns out that Pete Seeger is the intermediary. Plus an East End Jewish version of Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance. http://elorganillero.com/blog/2018/10/09/the-russian-folk-song-in-the-coen-brothers-raising-arizona/
  
  • 2018-10-08 18:18 Khaleda Rahman at the Mail already can't tell the difference between Dutch & German
    
• 2018-10-08 17:55 Low Saxon official language in the Netherlands. Speaking as someone who learnt it before Dutch & German, not sure whether that's a terribly good idea https://www.destentor.nl/binnenland/nedersaksisch-wordt-officieel-erkende-taal-in-nederland~a38657a5/
• 2018-10-08 06:36 One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug in Tim Hunkin’s Air B’n'Bug Machine http://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/10/08/tim-hunkins-air-bnbug-machine/
  • 2018-10-07 19:45 The guy on C. Lane kicking someone's door down and shouting "You want war, you get war" clearly wasn't serious, not the same league
• 2018-10-07 19:42 Most impressive thing walking Hackney-Chingford and back by different route is overwhelming smell of weed for considerable portions of journey. Even C19th religion can't have been as powerfully opiate as this.
• 2018-10-06 13:38 Clapping is about aural reciprocity: I make a sound you like, you make a sound I like. Jazz hands are the zombie apocalypse.
  • 2018-10-06 11:52 The story is a marvel & is apparently translated by Madeline Levine in the Collected Stories. Highlight: the organ-grinders playing "Daisy, Daisy". https://wolnelektury.pl/media/book/pdf/schulz-sanatorium-pod-klepsydra-ksiega.pdf
• 2018-10-06 11:32 Organ-grinder in courtyard - Bruno Schulz illustration to his story Księga, The Book, 1937
  
• 2018-10-06 11:13 C19th gym aesthetics https://twitter.com/Pani_Bufetowa/status/1048528054635696128
• 2018-10-06 11:11 1870s Gilbert Scott Grand Midland Hotel aka St Pancras vs 1990s Sandy Wilson British Library
  
• 2018-10-06 11:06 Hackney cyclists curious as to the fate of their front wheel could do worse than try outside the Cape House hostel on Dalston Lane
  
• 2018-10-06 10:22 Mortimer Wheeler at Gazala, 1942 https://twitter.com/FLODurhamFLO/status/1047859573145706497
• 2018-10-06 09:27 The postmistress on Well Street, Hackney also has this Sino-Latin cushion http://flavias.blogspot.com/2009/05/mystery-of-latin-pillow.html
• 2018-10-06 08:51 Birdie
  
• 2018-10-06 08:46 Philip Hammond is a vile man https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7430006/wine-makers-fear-tax-introduction/
• 2018-10-06 08:44 Italia DOC is back and we are happy https://uclitalianfilmclub.wordpress.com/2018/10/05/italia-doc-3/
• 2018-10-06 08:43 TfL assets? Diamond Geezer has them covered http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2018/10/tfl-assets.html
• 2018-10-06 07:26 The neighbours aka Homerton B made a video. Interesting times
  
• 2018-10-06 07:21 I think I'll have leeks for breakfast. https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1047965245187096576
• 2018-10-06 07:20 Continuing attempts to sell the integration of silent films into Varieté where sound film was to sweep all before it https://twitter.com/Transblawg/status/1048470350542061568
• 2018-10-05 11:44 Jump on the happiness train https://twitter.com/DinahHatch/status/1048126813522808832
• 2018-10-05 06:09 Carrying of portrait of Gypsy King Ivor Hughes at Martock reminiscent of older practice of bearing portraits of real monarchs in processions they were unable to attend https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/gallery/more-pictures-ivor-hughes-funeral-2072022
  
• 2018-10-05 05:54 Full-fat Giacometti, Hertford Union Canal/Lea Navigation
  
• 2018-10-05 05:41 "I do what I want to do and that wasn't worth doing." https://twitter.com/mandydennison/status/1047882345829883905
• 2018-10-04 19:00 Pedro, The Hand-Organ Man: 1906 Edison street fight between an Italian organ-grinder and an Irishwoman
  
• 2018-10-04 17:23 RT @MattCartoonist:
  
• 2018-10-04 10:30 James Last, Daar is de orgelman (There's the organ-grinder)
  
• 2018-10-04 10:14 Finally I am going to meet the man behind John Cage’s Disco Classics
• 2018-10-04 09:54 RT @ingeniousdeb: Pleased & v moved to see my father’s photo and letters in Shattered the #kristallnacht exhibition @wienerlibrary this is…
• 2018-10-04 09:53 "El tren d'Olot fa chuf chuf chuf" was one of the first songs I learnt in Catalan, but I'd never video of the (defunct) Gerona-Olot line
  
• 2018-10-04 08:35 Adorno said yes to wombats. Also, Marxist meerkats https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1401130/Animals-who-learn-Marxism-in-nursery.html https://twitter.com/nevada_hilux/status/1047710722258427904
• 2018-10-04 08:30 The hangovers I can take, but now they've slapped me with an unexplained health order.
• 2018-10-03 20:39 If Theresa May was going to come back after Geoffrey Cox and avoid being the monkey to his organ-grinder, her only option was to come out in a Darth Vader costume and do the whole speech in character
• 2018-10-03 11:41 RT @GavinAtwal: I used to suffer from depression but through hard work, persistence, and never giving up, I now suffer from anxiety and dep…
  • 2018-10-03 11:41 @c_massaccesi Meanwhile, the rest of world awaits, breath bated, for news of films at UCL this autumn...
• 2018-10-03 11:30 She's not the Queen, is she? https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1047443968924049411
• 2018-10-03 10:46 Season of mists and mellow fruit flies
• 2018-10-03 07:34 When I cycled into Hungary in 1994, the first bar I went into for lunch had You Rang, M'Lord (dubbed) on the telly. Thought at first it was a communist satire on the Brits, but gradually the dreadful truth dawned https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/03/you-rang-mlord-the-90s-british-sitcom-and-its-unlikely-hungarian-super-fans
  • 2018-10-02 21:33 Death to the high street!
    
• 2018-10-02 21:31 Cobbett on the growth of the high street
  
• 2018-10-02 19:00 Apparently Asda pharmacies refuse to dispense prescriptions from other EU countries, despite the European Single Market
• 2018-10-02 12:58 Have women never frolicked independently? "Ngrams not found: a frolic of her own"
  
  • 2018-10-02 10:48 @Transblawg Hence spad, signal passed at danger
  • 2018-10-02 10:30 @Transblawg Perhaps I mean the MP.
  • 2018-10-02 09:51 @Transblawg And how is the Aryan man doing in Upminster?
• 2018-10-02 09:37 Betjeman aged 13: Whatever will rhyme with Summer? There only is “plumber” and “drummer”: Why! the cleverest bard Would find it quite hard To connect with the Summer — a plumber! https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/10/02/summer/
• 2018-10-02 09:33 Bigger than the swastikas at Walthamstow Assembly Rooms, but perhaps less visible, because not at head height. Dates? https://twitter.com/Transblawg/status/1047044798522232833
• 2018-10-02 07:20 RT @chas_dave: Chas & Dave, September 2018.
  
• 2018-10-02 07:18 Perhaps building more houses in London increases the centralisation effect, raises rents, and forces more people to live in a place they fear and loathe http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/01/steelmanning-the-nimbys/
• 2018-10-01 18:24 Swastikas on the doors of Walthamstow Assembly Hall, built during WWII, but presumably with different glass. The Town Hall complex, still very fine, though shortly to be redeveloped, always reminds me of the slightly older Southampton Civic Centre, which had a beautiful library.
  
• 2018-10-01 15:38 Do all Japanese say "Prince Halibut and Meghan Mackerel"?

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