Óscar Suárez Bermúdez, 81, his son, Óscar Suárez Melián, and his daughter-in-law, Lucía Díaz Medina, joined it onto the neighbours’ and repainted the façade in the hope that the repossessers would not be able to find it. (Via Subastas Judiciales, who I believe is also of the opinion that if – as the millenarian Plataforma…
The itching time came up yesterday, probably referring to Francoism, while I was prancing around in a new wig for purposes that will shortly be revealed. DCVB says “l’any de la picor” refers to distant times, and proverbologist Víctor Pàmies cites Joan Amades’s hypothesis that it comes from the Year of Fleas and Famine, 1471,…
Cf. one of the tales from the Decameron which made me laugh most as child, that of the hermit Rustico who teaches the virgin Alibech how to put the Devil back into Hell.
Rather weary yesterday PM after a morning’s rabbit-hunting, so bumbled through Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant Decline and fall and Vile bodies, which contain quite a number of afternoon naps. Conjecture: the British began to replace the expression with “siesta” as they started staying awake after lunch and drowsing off became associated with the lazy Latins. Refutation:
Observed today: When all the stations in an area are full (often the case in the port/beach district), leave your bike next to a station in the hope that someone will ride off on it and dock it somewhere, soon. This almost guarantees a small fine, and carries a considerable risk of a large one…
You’ll find various subscription options on the site. Different language, different audience, the imminent resurrection of Albert O. Pernales, Messiah…
Ayuda encontrarás en The Big Problem of Small Organs de Alan Kitley (h/t Transblawg), que cuenta como la mujer de E. Power Biggs le sopla su órgano. A ver si la RAE se anime a admitir este anglocabronismo, cuyo uso ya es generalizado. Y no olvidemos los entendres dobles de Clarence Williams en el Organ Grinder Blues:…
