Organ-grinding tweets for February

More untruths & idle opinions.

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SingingOrganGrinder
@elorganillero

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

  • Fri Feb 01 01:49 Historia de Barcelona, 1/2: * 1568: Auto de fe en el Born (0) * 1624: Faltan provisiones en Barcelona por la nieve (10+7) * 1809: Edicto anti-rave (242) * 1830: Nieva (8) * 1848: Los puercos de San Antonio (345+23) * 1881: Nace La Vanguardia, órgano del…
  • Fri Feb 01 07:51 Leeds is one of the most phonetically beautiful words in monkey speech, but if you turn the suffix S into a prefix and harden the D you get a sound expressive and significative of the awful thing that is about to overcome one.
  • Fri Feb 01 12:44 Guess what will happen here: 3 hipster coffee bars on a short high street, but the Turkish one has granny working for free on the till
  • Fri Feb 01 12:52 Re retail decor: "JPEG artefacts"
  • Fri Feb 01 12:58 HS2 vs HS2 bike path
  • Fri Feb 01 17:44 3 satires by Dutch Golden Age poet (Donne's translator)/composer/diplomat Constantijn Huygens on death of court physician, modern Dutch by Jean-Marc van Tol Here lies Verstraten in a big & pricey chest How he'd squint & scowl, our doc, if only he guessed
  • Fri Feb 01 17:45 Comment: @justinjerez Short break in Zim?
  • Fri Feb 01 19:58 Reconquista genetics: bet no one's going to claim Valencia for Aragón instead of Cataluña ;)
  • Fri Feb 01 20:01 Back in Psychoville & the mafia is filming a car sequence for a drill video in v cold rain, complete with audience of 12 yo girls
  • Sat Feb 02 09:40 earth can't be flat, or cats would have pushed everything off the edge
  • Sat Feb 02 09:45 Eric Griffiths in his Times obit: "reading is the search for the absent voice of another," i.e. text is not anything we choose to make it
  • Sat Feb 02 11:14 Hypnotic acoustic treats from German
  • Sat Feb 02 11:21 Ngram "funny little" vs "little funny": whence the 1920s/-30s peak?
  • Sat Feb 02 11:24 Savannah nut fledge tray book
  • Sat Feb 02 11:27 Comment: Cowper. Pike's. Agnes. Santa. Mabel. Cheyenne. Danube. Rack. Nut, Dance. Nut. Rally. Nut. Raid. Nut. Raul. Earth. Flown. Petrel. Forbid. Earth. Fitful. Earth. Fine. Earth. Sky. Tragic. Sky. Tindall. Sky. Towel. Sky. Trace. Sky. 0 Beat. 0 Brown
  • Sat Feb 02 11:39 "Shakespeare is Cervantes is a Barcelona ice-cream vendor." Why does the Arenys School of Cannabis Studies impose such domain/region/period requirements? Why not add Luo Binwang, Aristotle and Adolf Hitler to Mr Sirvent's remarkable CV? Fackwits
  • Sat Feb 02 14:50 Bad enough that my neighbour is possessed by a badger
  • Sat Feb 02 17:24 Barcelona without taxis was also pretty celestial
  • Sun Feb 03 05:27 Historia de Barcelona, 3/2: * 1112: Boda en Arlés de Ramón Berenguer III y Dulce de Provenza, inaugurando el dominio de la Casa de Barcelona en Provenza y, según la leyenda, de los trovadores provenzales en Barcelona (0+476) * 1510: Regocijos públicos…
  • Sun Feb 03 17:42 Article about Marcela Silvia Hernández Cortés, who repairs German barrel organs in Mexico City, begins with a crime report from a few days ago: a woman beat a organ-grinder over the head with a vase to stop him playing
  • Sun Feb 03 18:09 Premises licence granted @ £100 for Man Cave, Rear of 98 Gattison Lane, New Rossington, Doncaster
  • Sun Feb 03 23:29 Historia de Barcelona, 4/2: * 1387: El concilio de Juan I de Aragón se decide por el antipapa, Clemente (24) * 1493: Romería de los reyes católicos a Montserrat (16) * 1848: Los bailes particulares (1675) * 1872: Antonio López y López regala dos altas…
  • Mon Feb 04 18:46 Panorama of Port de Plan in the central Pyrenees, while walking over from San Juan de Plan, Bal de Chistau, Spain, to Tramesaïgues, France (2007 clip found on an old hard disk)
  • Mon Feb 04 21:54 A dog that might as well have been called Hope
  • Mon Feb 04 23:27 Comment: @Captain_Bionic I believe the English speckle is related to something like the German specken, to spot with bacon, Speck, and they've got a Speckvogel, a bacon bird, although I'm not sure whether that's a chicken decorated with bits of bacon or a species of its own - like the starling.
  • Mon Feb 04 23:38 Historia de Barcelona, 5/2: * 1567: Torneo en el Born (19) * 1601: Gran nevada (0) * 1640: Entra el conde de Santa Coloma tras su victoria (pírrica) en Salses (183) * 1848: La fiesta de Sta. Águeda y un refrán misterioso (60) * 1919: Pla: La meva…
  • Tue Feb 05 19:00 Spreadsheet as sequencer
  • Tue Feb 05 21:32 I didn't realise that there were a whole bunch of 1830s industrial secessionists ex the Ancient Order of Druids (like the Loyal Order of Druids, formed 1829, Bolton) - basically mutualist democrats. LOD also keen that members understand basic physics:
  • Tue Feb 05 21:33 Comment: Just because you're a druid, doesn't mean you should remain in ignorance of pronouns. Excellent stuff. Including the grip.
  • Wed Feb 06 00:50 Historia de Barcelona, 6/2: * 1461: Negociación entre Juan II de Aragón y los catalanes sobre el encarcelamiento de Carlos de Viana (29) * 1610: Gran nevada y helada (58) * 1919: Pla: .Montjuïc * 1939: Falta de confianza en los mercados después de la…
  • Wed Feb 06 09:42 27% lying about alcohol consumption strikes me as very low. Of course, one would never lie to a poller.
  • Wed Feb 06 09:47 Splendidly composed photo by one Hernán Díaz of a Bogotan organ-grinder. If only one could see the direction of the bird's gaze.
  • Wed Feb 06 09:47 Comment: Via @OrganillerosMex
  • Wed Feb 06 09:48 Comment: And what's the inscription on the front of the case, and what make is it?
  • Wed Feb 06 09:50 Ivanka vacuuming Some people are just determined not to let an immigrant woman succeed.
  • Wed Feb 06 10:03 For UK rural walking I often check 1890s OS 6-inch - fascinating, free via NLS. OpenStreetMap is catching up in middle-class zones. Google Maps's not a walker's friend - but satellite imagery is globally good. Got me API key but not really using it for web stuff
  • Wed Feb 06 10:08 Another vid from an old disk: l'abueli con sus gafas de sol marcianas
  • Wed Feb 06 10:17 Back-to-the-future Bolivian clock, and the world turned upside-down
  • Wed Feb 06 20:37 At last, a Chinese shop assistant in Barcelona has helped me with some basic English
  • Wed Feb 06 20:48 Nice work if you can get it: "A year of research into alternative methods of wet cleaning knotted carpets"
  • Wed Feb 06 20:57 Tory Eurosceptic Mark Francois has a beautiful name, only lacking in a cedilla. Maybe, as I am also donating vowels to the Slavs. he will also get a ç for his birthday.
  • Wed Feb 06 21:00 Louise Kaiser sings "aah" (not 440)
  • Wed Feb 06 21:11 But what will Donald Tusk's special place in Hell look like? (Catholic) theology is notably vague on this - almost as if it doesn't exist
  • Wed Feb 06 21:41 Yolo: Som d'or / Som cor
  • Wed Feb 06 21:44 Comment: Grill intermitent que rasca al meu dins / pampalluga de fulla al sol i al vent / que xiula una melodia pura / brou pou d'un infern que no és meu, sinó teu También canta
  • Wed Feb 06 21:48 Provocative: did urban planning in England peak ~ a couple of thousand years ago?
  • Wed Feb 06 21:58 Gitanillos en microbike, Nerpio, Murcia
  • Wed Feb 06 22:36 The deceased weighed 130 kg, & if you talk to the neighbourhood rock band who carried him out in a bodybag it's difficult to understand why he lived at the bottom of 30 steep steps.
  • Wed Feb 06 22:36 Comment: But if you sit on his stool in the bar, the Conscription Hermitage, & the wind blows up the canopy, you get the best-ever view of Tibidabo.
  • Thu Feb 07 00:56 Historia de Barcelona, 7/2: * 1163: Alfonso II reconoce los derechos locales de Barcelona (10) * 1564: Llega Felipe II a Valldonzella en la vispera de su primera entrada como rey (14+5) * 1848: Los bailes de buen tono (1520) * 1919: Pla: A la Biblioteca…
  • Thu Feb 07 08:22 Comment: @justinjerez More than I realised, hahaha. It's not called a washing-up machine after all.
  • Thu Feb 07 08:31 It was mostly John Humphrys' voice on Today that kept me in touch with English during the years in Holland when no one I knew spoke it and my syntax and vocabulary began to get pretty weird.
  • Thu Feb 07 10:24 Comment: @Transblawg @ShannonDingle (Goddess) Hera
  • Fri Feb 08 01:03 Historia de Barcelona, 8/2: * 1461: Sublevación a favor de Carlos de Viana; fuga de Galcerán de Requesens (22) * 1554: Nuestra Señora de Montserrat resucita a un niño muerto (176) * 1630: Magnífico espectáculo y fiesta de disfraces para la infanta María…
  • Fri Feb 08 08:42 The art of standing still
  • Fri Feb 08 08:46 The one pound lady
  • Fri Feb 08 10:20 Batshit
  • Fri Feb 08 10:22 "Just because it rhymes doesn't make it true." We monkeys beg to disagree.
  • Fri Feb 08 15:48 Ex-colleague with curious name
  • Fri Feb 08 20:07 If I were Mexican, I'd be a Living Human Treasure.
  • Fri Feb 08 20:16 Can't believe I'd never read Middlemarch. Best novel ever, surely, and about Coventry, apparently. Why isn't there even a half-decent C19th novel about Liverpool? Only notable because Dickens tends to exile characters via it.
  • Fri Feb 08 22:31 Get them when they're young
  • Sat Feb 09 01:09 Historia de Barcelona, 9/2: * 1425: Una gran procesión pública pide ayuda contra los terremotos (114) * 1842: Primer día de Cuaresma, 1842 (67) * 1848: Los dentistas y la fiesta de su patrón, santa Apolonia (278) * 1919: Pla: Diumenge * ☼ 07:51-18:18,…
  • Sat Feb 09 10:45 Arachnid conspiracies & anatine reparations in book titles
  • Sat Feb 09 13:07 Welsh, allegedly C13th cognate of the Aragonese/Catalan heraldic legend of the bloody origin of four bars on a noble shield. More versions in Genealogica & Heraldica: Ottawa 1996

  • Sat Feb 09 13:10 Comment: His son was also unfortunate
  • Sat Feb 09 13:38 Comment: The C18th belief that the Welsh were never entirely beaten by the Romans is echoed in C21st Asturias, where, standing next to a Roman road and speaking a Romance tongue, a patriot once assured me that the Romans had never managed to establish a foothold N of the Cantabrian Range
  • Sat Feb 09 23:25 Historia de Barcelona, 10/2: * 1319: Privilegio de Jaime II concediendo a Barcelona el derecho de usar pendón (163) * 1887: Intensa nevada (19) * 1939: Pla publica su "retorno sentimental de un catalán" (537) * 1944: Ejecutado Justo Bueno, "asesino de…
  • Sun Feb 10 19:16 Carnival Trump from Viareggio
  • Sun Feb 10 19:27 The musical phrase on Hugh Gordon Langton's stone at Poelcapelle, West Flanders ( is like the ones on birthday cards - well-meaning but meaningless - flat sign is misplaced horizontally & vertically. Perhaps he should get a new stone
  • Sun Feb 10 19:41 1 way of reversing insect loss ( in Britain would be to proscribe post-1750 drainage/sewage, housebuilding & health tech. Interesting side-effect: death of 1/2 the human population. Ctrl-F Gilbert White Natural History for flies etc
  • Sun Feb 10 20:03 RIP X.Ray Burns, a favourite on my favourite radio show, WFMU
  • Sun Feb 10 20:04 Comment: Watch those house prices fallllll.....
  • Sun Feb 10 20:06 Hungarian family policy
  • Sun Feb 10 20:11 Back to the land heaven: King Cannabis pricing out tech startups #gentrification
  • Sun Feb 10 20:16 Comment: (King Cannabis < King Cotton, not some modern brand. If California ever wants to secede it may want to start exporting...)
  • Sun Feb 10 21:13 The phrase "It's all or nothing" was first spoken by a hungry person requesting a small pointed tool to open a pressurised jar of food
  • Sun Feb 10 21:31 The Czech sweet, Metro Dezert (because the four pieces resemble the four wagons on the first Prague metro), reminds one of an English sweet from the 70s or 80s, but what?
  • Sun Feb 10 23:23 Historia de Barcelona, 11/2: * 1742: Nace Ramón Lázaro de Dou, último cancelario de la Universidad de Cervera (19+58) * 1873: Proclamación de la Primera República (0/i) * 1919: Pla: Les porteres de Barcelona no arriben a fer mai, quan parlen amb la gent,…
  • Mon Feb 11 07:32 Comment: @Transblawg My favourite food in Brno is Austrian, which they seem to do better than the Viennese, but who doesn't want to eat a train?
  • Mon Feb 11 08:00 Diamond Geezer, already the Tube Tsar (, now needs to be given regulatory powers over TfL
  • Mon Feb 11 08:53 The plum porter's my favourite from the George & Dragon at Gnosall
  • Mon Feb 11 19:42 Queues
  • Mon Feb 11 23:28 Historia de Barcelona, 12/2: * 1808: Bienvenida con reservas para las tropas de Napoleón; infelicidades meteorológicas y eclesiásticas; Brusi entra en la clandestinidad tras confiscarse su Diario de Barcelona (7+552) * 1826: Corre agua del nuevo…
  • Tue Feb 12 07:54 Appalling idea.
  • Tue Feb 12 07:56 The mint-green sign on the left is a bit unclear but says "Wurse"
  • Tue Feb 12 08:28 Just need a horn section
  • Tue Feb 12 10:10 Comment: @Transblawg Imagine if Indian English had been closer to another tonal English dialect like Scouse
  • Tue Feb 12 10:15 Comment: @Transblawg My impression is N Ireland & W Scotland, but then you'd expect rather more Presbyterian lifestyles
  • Tue Feb 12 10:21 Comment: @Transblawg It's all very interesting. My Merseyside relatives were of those origins but afaik didn't do Scouse. And 19th century representations seem quite different from modern experience, playing functions at the Adelphi.
  • Tue Feb 12 10:51 Gordon Banks played for Fort Lauderdale Strikers at Pompey in 1978, & I swear I saw him jump one way and then change direction, mid-air, to make one save, & him more or less blind by then. Bugger the Pelé incident.
  • Tue Feb 12 11:07 Not enough has been written by industrial historians about the role in the textiles revolution of the Yorkshire villages of Upper and Nether Thong
  • Tue Feb 12 11:09 Comment: Thong Bridge may however be allowed to rest in obscurity
  • Tue Feb 12 14:47 Comment: @BBCR4Feedback Done...
  • Tue Feb 12 19:23 New traffic warden ticketed only a couple of the dozen cars always parked on double yellow by the Turkish & West Indian grease monkeys. Sensation! Outrage! Surely not negotiating his payoff.
  • Tue Feb 12 23:36 Historia de Barcelona, 13/2: * 1939: Una "operación policial" sustituye a la guerra civil (117) * 1960: Amistad al azar entre un marinero estadounidense y un niño sordo (50) * ☼ 07:46-18:23, 10:36 horas; ☾ luna menguante, iluminación 61,68%, antigüedad…
  • Wed Feb 13 08:34 "put to justice" < "put to the sword/treadmill"
  • Wed Feb 13 08:34 Comment: nowt so vicious as an angry embroiderer
  • Wed Feb 13 08:37 The East German Ladies' Swimming Team is a Highgate Men's Pond tribute to "the most masculine swimming team we could think of: the 1976 East German Ladies Swimming Team, vanquisher of all opponents at the Summer Olympic Games in Montreal" H/t @Transblawg
  • Wed Feb 13 23:46 Historia de Barcelona, 14/2: * 1257: Expansión de la participación en el gobierno político (20+27) * 1494: Primera edición de las constituciones catalanas de Johann Rosenbach (60+494) * 1630: María Ana de Austria se muestra muy religiosa (1147) * 1845:…
  • Thu Feb 14 07:38 No law prevents an NHS nurse from referring to herself as Pussy Cat or twanging her knicker elastic as she walks past the gents on Acute, none of whom seemed particularly disturbed by the phenomenon
  • Thu Feb 14 07:58 Is Hackney Council fiddling its air quality monitoring?
  • Thu Feb 14 13:50 Drill as the new Robin Hood ballad: "as a form of catharsis and therapy ... as an entry point of engagement not only into music but into other pathways away from antisocial and troubling outcomes" The Department of Education is funding something the Met wants to close down...
  • Thu Feb 14 13:59 Reports of gin-fuelled mayhem and gunshot wounds at noon on a rural puffpuff in the Wild Southwest. London, oasis
  • Thu Feb 14 14:01 Comment: Cider, no cider?!
  • Thu Feb 14 23:46 Historia de Barcelona, 15/2: * 1519: Carlos I de España entra y jura los fueros (36+23) * 1603: Tres palmos de nieve en Collserola (132) * 1938: Cuatro días de nevada (33) * 1971: Pete Seeger da su primer concierto en Barcelona en el bar de la familia de…
  • Fri Feb 15 05:59 Hoping one's bovine artificial insemination contract client will embrace "handelen of nalaten" -> "act or emission"
  • Fri Feb 15 06:00 Comment: Background music:
  • Fri Feb 15 06:18 Friday is anti-scouse day: Mid C19th Diet Table Established by the Governors of the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum: Saturday-Thursday: Porridge, Scouse, Porridge. Friday: Porridge, Potato Pie, Porridge
  • Fri Feb 15 06:22 Comment: Prisoners at Wakefield sentenced to Australia are not forced to eat as much scouse as the Lancashire Loonies. Correlation vs causality
  • Fri Feb 15 06:27 Comment: Marryat, Jacob Faithful has them consuming the ancient dish of lob scouse

  • Fri Feb 15 07:52 Lobscouse, Labskaus
  • Fri Feb 15 08:26 A brigading mob on social media promoting a venture or a scheme is a clear-cut sign of its inability to gain traction on merits alone
  • Fri Feb 15 09:28 The latest on national govt & Hampshire County Council's efforts to get people out of cars and onto shared transport & their own hind legs:
  • Fri Feb 15 09:31 Comment: Basically in rural areas you need a car (cycling is too frightening, because cars no longer expect to encounter slow movers) or volunteer-driven buses, like the excellent Meon Valley Community Bus scheme
  • Fri Feb 15 09:35 Comment: But in this densely populated, wealthy county, service provision is far worse than in even the poorest, remotest, least populated parts of great, empty Spain
  • Fri Feb 15 11:14 Kilvert's Dairy is on Internet Archive. God knows what it will contain: his diary was bad enough
  • Fri Feb 15 11:27 Comment: @LowEbbs I suppose that one fear is that she does not think that she will be living among people she betrayed
  • Fri Feb 15 13:03 Comment: @LowEbbs But I'm sure that absolutely no one in their palace on the Thames is hoping that the Donald will clear things up for them, because that is not how we do things.
  • Fri Feb 15 15:16 Comment: @justinjerez Yes!
  • Fri Feb 15 17:39 Comment: @justinjerez Where there's a beer there's a way. Good choice.
  • Sat Feb 16 00:30 Historia de Barcelona, 16/2: * 1528: Guerra contra Francia e Inglaterra (23) * 1604: Nevada sobre la ciudad (0) * 1615: Nevada (0) * 1711: Los ingleses pierden un buque de guerra frente a la costa (87) * 1809: Decreto por el qual se manda sacar de…
  • Sat Feb 16 15:02 Rarely a day goes by that I don't remember the best thing ever written: 'Pangloss sometimes said to Candide: "There is a concatenation of events in this best of all possible worlds etc etc etc" "All that is very well," answered Candide, "but let us cultivate our garden."'
  • Sun Feb 17 00:36 Historia de Barcelona, 17/2: * 1566: Solemne oficio en la capilla de la Diputación tras justas en el Born (59) * 1839: Espectáculo del prestidigitador y titiritero Antonio Muñoz en un café de la Rambla (93) * 1846: Abre la escuela de párvulos de san…
  • Sun Feb 17 09:23 Jacob Cats: booze ain't for beasts: De wijn is voor de mens en voor de rapste geesten, Maar water uit de beek ten dienste van de beesten, Al wat de wijngaard geeft dat is een schone vrucht, Om al wat droefheid smaakt te drijven op de vlucht.
  • Sun Feb 17 11:57 Polis/pueblo. Campanilismo describes literally a pub landlady I knew, whose husband decided she should have a holiday & took her to beach village 50 miles away. Next morning: no church bells, & she began to weep uncontrollably, & had to be taken home
  • Sun Feb 17 14:06 Public transport black arts
  • Sun Feb 17 22:21 Blackburn has changed: "this property will be offered for sale by modern method of auction"
  • Sun Feb 17 22:46 Dunning-Kruger set to Nessun Dorma: Some people's own incompetence / Somehow gives them a stupid sense / That anything they do is rate / They think it's great / But no, it's not.
  • Mon Feb 18 01:19 Historia de Barcelona, 18/2: * 1566: Se lleva a bañar la Vera Cruz para aliviar la sequia (17+7) * 1919: Pla: Com que la situació de Barcelona continua essent molt delicada i no es pot anar enlloc sense que us facin posar amb els braços enlaire, em quedo…
  • Mon Feb 18 22:53 Nietzsche bought silk knickers for Wagner
  • Tue Feb 19 01:22 Historia de Barcelona, 19/2: * 1925: La regulación municipal de los taxis en respuesta al Decreto Real de 25/12/1924 introduce franjas de color amarillo y azul para distinguir su categoría de servicio (1140+15) * 1944: Nieva (10) * ☼ 07:38-18:31, 10:52…
  • Tue Feb 19 09:37 Comment: I now understand German Romanticism & the 19th century
  • Tue Feb 19 09:38 Comment: But without Dunning-Kruger, very old men would lay down and die, and how boring life would be then.
  • Wed Feb 20 01:28 Historia de Barcelona, 20/2: * 1809: Edicto por el qual se manda barrer las calles de Barcelona los miércoles y sábados de cada semana (174) * 1815: Se comienza a arar para hacer el Jardín del General (15+100) * 1919: Pla: Dijous * 1956: 5 centímetros de…
  • Wed Feb 20 21:05 Office apparently stricken by mass anxiety attack following coping-with-anxiety session on Monday. Monday is a for recovery, not redundancy or therapy
  • Thu Feb 21 01:35 Historia de Barcelona, 21/2: * 1852: Estrena de la comedia bilingüe "La festa del poble", con castells y bailes provinciales (96+97) * 1873: Rebeldes militares de varias regiones de España y con apoyo popular exigen una república federal en la plaza San…
  • Thu Feb 21 09:47 On tuning bells
  • Thu Feb 21 18:09 Clever couplet: Danny Dyer had the front / To call me a twat.
  • Thu Feb 21 19:17 Auto-tuned cat
  • Thu Feb 21 19:24 1963 soloist Roy Goodman on Ivor Atkins' late Romantic Allegri Miserere. More over at the New College Choir blog:
  • Thu Feb 21 19:53 If the client wants celebratory instrumental Handel on trumpet, trombone and barrel organ, with infants on saucepan and lids, then the Water Music is certainly more manageable than the Fireworks. But who cares.
  • Thu Feb 21 21:47 Le Gym d'Arthur
  • Fri Feb 22 01:40 Historia de Barcelona, 22/2: * 1550: Celebraciones por la coronación del papa Julio III (15) * 1571: Jueves lardero 1571: justas a costa de la Diputación (23+19) * 1789: Guerra entre cirujanos y médicos sobre una niña con dos cabezas (897+236/i) * 1824:…
  • Fri Feb 22 08:18 Re AI text generation: "Maybe it’s not worth turning the brain’s predictive ability completely off overnight, so instead you just let it run on 5% capacity, then throw out whatever garbage it produces later. "
  • Fri Feb 22 08:22 Great memoir by my favourite modern poet
  • Fri Feb 22 10:18 YouTube just streamed Gerry Mulligan Night Lights after John Dowland Captaine Piper, His Galliard. Why? Presumably because they begin with the same 4-note motif: do-mi-la-sol
  • Fri Feb 22 10:22 Comment: @Transblawg @PoliticalPics Didn't someone write a version of the abandonment of all hope from the perspective of Cerberus?
  • Fri Feb 22 12:14 I think the first question of anyone on discovering that their (youthful) brother-in-law has a complete set of false teeth would be, "Who punched him?"
  • Fri Feb 22 12:18 Comment: @oobr @NicoleBadstuber @JosephSealDrive @stevemilton @SantanderCycles Followup: If it is the end for dockless bikes, how long will it take before all the bikes are recovered & will the polluter pay? Ofo still popular on Hackney estates despite their withdrawal
  • Fri Feb 22 14:20 New corbyn mask
  • Fri Feb 22 15:45 Siesta dream that the herring had tossed the mackerel back into the Atlantic and gone to live in the Red Sea with the butchering beluga
  • Fri Feb 22 16:05 Doggerel alert: "Tim replies: Many thanks for your excellent poem." Does Spoons employ a readers poet, like provincial newspapers used to a have a lowly readers letters writer in the tearoom?
  • Sat Feb 23 01:49 Historia de Barcelona, 23/2: * 1432: La Diputación compra unas casas más para el Palacio de la Generalidad (20+11) * 1559: Entra el virrey García de Toledo en el primer coche visto en la ciudad (49) * 1560: Encarcelados unos músicos y bailadores por…
  • Sat Feb 23 08:42 Google Smart Compose has no idea what I'm about to say. Does that mean I'm a freaking weirdo?
  • Sat Feb 23 11:26 Maybe Twitter got right what the press got wrong & focused on cats instead of crime. Maybe ballads about the cony barber (A young Ladies Delight, how she trim'd her Maid, when she was on the Straw asleep) were barking up the right cavity after all
  • Sat Feb 23 13:02 When what you're translating is the utter and universal incomprehension the text creates in the source language
  • Sat Feb 23 16:13 You casually google syntax in Yoda & Welsh, and you get proof that the former is the latter
  • Sat Feb 23 19:05 Bomb coal plants in China & India to save the planet
  • Sat Feb 23 20:17 Local Bangladeshi takeaway presenting, as is customary, Pakistani cuisine as Indian: "With a team of ***carefully curated chefs*** who do their best to emulate the complexity & depth of flavors that is associated with Indian food"
  • Sat Feb 23 20:20 Comment: I've got over speakers who start sentences with "So" instead of "Well," but the only curator I recognise is "A person appointed as guardian of the affairs of someone legally unfit to conduct them him- or herself, such as a minor, an insane person, etc"
  • Sat Feb 23 20:21 Comment: And I sympathise with CofE curates in 19th century novels.
  • Sun Feb 24 01:57 Historia de Barcelona, 24/2: * 1560: Fiesta de toros y cañas para celebrar la boda de Felipe II (31) * 1634: Entra como nuevo obispo el castellano García Gil de Manrique, ya presidente de la Diputación del General (39) * 1864: Estreno en el teatro Odeón…
  • Sun Feb 24 07:43 Waking thought: A Welsh dresser fell on my uncle. He never recupboard.
  • Sun Feb 24 07:44 Comment: Things can only improve.
  • Sun Feb 24 09:30 Comment: @Transblawg I didn't know that one, ta!
  • Sun Feb 24 10:16 List of fictional badgers
  • Sun Feb 24 10:34 Harper's says my pronunciation of cumin (CUH-min) is the traditional one. + Wilmink, Emigranten on the preservation of tradition by those who leave their land.

  • Sun Feb 24 10:36 Mistreating the music teacher reinforces children's self-esteem
  • Mon Feb 25 01:56 Historia de Barcelona, 25/2: * 1017: Muere Ramón Borrell (6) * 1565: Torneo de á pie en frente del nuevo palacio del Lugarteniente General (26) * 1793: Herido el científico Méchain inspeccionando una máquina de su colega Salvá, que hace de caballo…
  • Mon Feb 25 08:18 Two Californians now know the true story of how Dick Whittington granted a licence to a 15th century Nigerian fried chicken takeaway on the banks of the Thames, giving rise to the word Blackfriars #BlackHistoryMonth
  • Tue Feb 26 01:59 Historia de Barcelona, 26/2: * 1559: García de Toledo visita los baluartes (19) * 1887: La abolición del cuarto a favor del céntimo hace subir el precio y el tamaño de La Esquella de la Torratxa (192) * 1919: Pla: Ara que em revé el gust de l’olfacte,…
  • Tue Feb 26 06:54 Philosophical limericks
  • Tue Feb 26 10:54 BLOG: All around his bed: a hospital mini-odyssey
  • Tue Feb 26 11:18 Comment: Another neo-classic: Il sogno di Omero / Homer's dream at Italia Doc next week
  • Tue Feb 26 23:10 Historia de Barcelona, 27/2: * 1461: En el conflicto catalano-aragonés, noticia de la liberación de Carlos de Viana por su padre Juan II (30) * 1632: Muere Serra, obispo de Lérida, enterrador de monstruos, ladrón de santos aragoneses, presidente de la…
  • Wed Feb 27 07:17 St Paul's Cathedral (3.5 miles corbyn's flight) no longer visible through the smog
  • Wed Feb 27 08:15 West Cornwall Pasty Co (hot) beats Greggs (always tepid)
  • Wed Feb 27 08:36 Curious: the Anglican Welsh church in London does nothing at all in Welsh
  • Wed Feb 27 09:11 D divides humanity into useful idiots and useless idiots. I am a possum.
  • Wed Feb 27 11:10 I'd never trust a restaurant where the staff are thin
  • Wed Feb 27 12:41 WTF is wrong with Tesco's supply chain? Having real problems restocking in various stores since Oct/Nov - not Brexit - starting to look positively Soviet
  • Wed Feb 27 12:43 Became Simon le Pasteymaker became Simon the Pieman after consulting a linguist
  • Wed Feb 27 21:22 Beautiful - 20 years of eagle flight data from Horn of Africa to Central Asia. Doesn't like water, so what about the Madagascan roc in Marco Polo & the island one in Arabian Nights?
  • Wed Feb 27 21:29 Health can't be described as a genuinely consumer-driven market until old people are given a choice between the care home & being tied to a chair in a field and pecked to death by rooks


  • Wed Feb 27 21:31 Comment: Beautiful birds. Glad they're learning to eat Big Macs like everything else & moving into towns.
  • Wed Feb 27 23:24 Historia de Barcelona, 28/2: * Jueves Lardero es el 28 de febrero este año; en 1842 fue el 3 de febrero * ... y en 1571 fue el 22 de febrero * ... y en 1848 fue el 2 de marzo * 1461: Prohibición de bailes de carnaval mientras se celebra la paz entre Juan…
  • Thu Feb 28 08:29 V disappointed that etymologists trace "phat" to American vulgarity (image) rather than to Vietnamese Buddhism (vid)
  • Thu Feb 28 15:59 Joburg pastor Alpha Lukau resurrecting some guy
  • Thu Feb 28 16:01 Comment: Video The facial expressions are wonderful
  • Thu Feb 28 16:01 Comment: Man also has LinkedIn, obvs
  • Thu Feb 28 16:03 Comment: So #ResurrectionChallenge tributes
  • Thu Feb 28 17:57 Comment: @Captain_Bionic The final vestiges of Central-European Romanticism: while we Brits urinate in our phone boxes, you smoke in yours
  • Thu Feb 28 17:59 Bicycle (self-?)identifies as dog
  • Thu Feb 28 18:21 Homer's Dream, in Italian
  • Thu Feb 28 23:38 Historia de Barcelona, 1/3: * ~1165: Llega desde Navarra el gran viajero judío Benjamín de Tudela (131+113) * 1716: Se empieza a construir el baluarte del rey de la ciudadela (18) * 1796: Nevada hasta el día 4 (0) * 1809: Cárcel para 20 por evasión…

Bizarrely, Twitter data downloads don't include others' comments on your tweets, or tweets on which you comment, e.g.:

/ I say something
// Someone replies
/// I reply to them
... and so it's impossible to show tweet trees involving third parties correctly.

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