Category: Les bourgeois

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Although this fact may not have occurred to American journalists, living in monolingual paradise, it’s hard choosing names in a global market where everything means something bad to someone, somewhere.

Autonomous street organ

By one Martin Preston: The machine is coming along very nicely, judging by the photos being posted over on Feisbuk. One of my eardrums exploded in August after a surfeit of Ivor Cutler, but they’re hoping to put in a new one in 4-6 months time which, if it doesn’t accurately render real sounds into…

Breogán redux

Featuring Sophie Tucker’s “There’s Something Spanish In My Eyes”

Typhoon Buttocks?

If only the Spanish nalga were also a Latin first declension noun.

An old Dutch A&E joke

And the abbot who thinks little of his neighbour the emperor’s worldly ambitions.

Seen but not heard

How to stop 1444/Vodafone phuckwits from waking you up during the siesta.