When I went out this morning onto the Rambla del Raval, a man was standing up on the boom of the 40 metre crane overlooking Calle San Rafael. He gesticulated and shouted at the firemen in the crane cabin and then wandered out to smoke a cigarette at the 35 metre end. Under the shadow…
Knew I’d seen it somewhere before but didn’t really think about it till I found this lying around. The PP’s got a bit of a reputation as the geriatric party, but someone must remember what CiU did in 2003.
Javier Celaya y Luis Sábat are reported by El País as saying its partly down to fear and ignorance of the internet. Being Spain, I can’t help wondering whether it’s not some obscure new money-laundering wheeze. (Via El Bibliómano)
A man who has been away for twenty years walks into the bar. The young waiter looks up at him and says, “You’re barred.” “Yes,” he replies, “but how did you know?”
Q: How do you form a Spanish barbarism from an English word beginning with “s”? A: Easy, you add a preliminary “e”, so that, for example, smoking (ie a dinner jacket, a tuxedo) becomes esmoquin. Q: How do you correct a Spanish barbarism beginning with “es”, thus demonstrating to your Spanish public your intimate knowledge…