¿Museo de la Felación?

La Verdad: El Museo de la Gaita Humberto Rodrí­guez ‘Mamada’ está ubicado en la parroquia Santa Lucía. Diccionario normativo galego-castelán: Gaita: … Pene, miembro viril del hombre… Alerta Digital: Un pastor evangélico brasileño convenció a sus feligreses de que practicaran sexo oral para alcanzar el Espíritu Santo. Triskel: Si tanto le gusta el sexo oral…

Things people tell me

Towards the end of the war the Japanese generals went to Hirohito and said, “Emperor, unless we find new troops immediately we will have to surrender.” But a devilish light shone in the eyes of the occupant of the Chrysanthemum Throne, and he spoke defiantly, “Gentlemen, send the palace dwarves into action, and have them…

One for the mobile phone radiation paranoids

From Afferbeck Lauder’s great pioneering study of Meganesian lang and lit, Let stalk Strine: Aorta stop all these transistors from cummer ninner the country. Look what they doone to the weather. All this rine! Doan tell me it’s not all these transistors – an all these hydrigen bombs too. Aorta stoppem!

Mike Tyson was once asked why he had been so bad for so long

“Well, you thee,” he lisped, “for yearth I thought that ethicth wath an Englith county.” Bad Muslim, fucking cool Muslim: vote Ahmed Aboutaleb (via). Rotterdam, probably the ugliest city in Western Europe, but in terms of linguistic expression second to none.

Galician retards

Here’s a splendid selection, with ditto commentary. The Good Lord’s distribution of blessings just ain’t equitable.

Marcoms tips for (proto-)jihadists

Keep it short and snappy. “Allah is great and you’re all going to die” = fail. Don’t show your full hand. You’re going to beat your women? Fine! but “It’s only a small stick” = fail.

Rebranding Babel

The London Borough of Newham is looking for a Professional Tutor: Our client is a single sex secondary school based in the heart of East London. […] The school is a specialist Language school and they currently offer an unrivalled range of languages taught on the curriculum and in lunchtime clubs: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French,…

Nice early example of context-sensitive help

“If any good grain is taken out by this trunk…”, with some other great photos of the Hook Norton brewery and of Shepherd Neame (I always think of it as Shepherd’s Neame; why?) in Faversham, over at Martyn Cornell’s beer blog.