Jamaican bat guano soup, anyone?

While garden show presenters who can’t tell the difference between cannabis and cabbage would probably do better sticking to alcohol, I’m intrigued to note that healthcare scammers, All Nutritional Supplements, are advertising bags of Jamaican bat guano, apparently for human use. (Yes, it’ll also do wonders for your cabbages, although the Scots may want to…

Eggcetera

Handy performance tips for the new eggcounting

Kanjigate

Ben Berg: Kanjigate (v.). To write in kanji. Langmaker is a site for people who like creating new words and languages. Here’s the history of Chicken.

rumbled

The excellent Mr Pullum highlights the attempts of the Plain English Conspiracy to destroy Donald Rumsfeld. There is, of course, nothing wrong with the example for which they awarded Ronald (as La Vanguardia’s Asian correspondent calls him) their Foot in Mouth trophy; indeed, a glance at their list of previous winners suggests that they have…

Polpa ficció

Peter Griffin ha hagut de comprar 490 exemplars de la seva traducció d’una novel·la per a evitar la seva polpació.

Colomes de la mort

Segons fonts prop de la Guàrdia Civil d’Albacete, era ben sabut des de fa molt que quan no podia dormir Antonio Peñafiel, el subjecte de les notícies tràgiques d’ahir, tenia costum de disparar a les colomes des de la seva habitació en la caserna a Valdemoro on treballava. El que no entenc (si això és…