Takeovers

So will La Caixa ask Montilla for its money back if Gas Natural fails to get Endesa or ends up paying more than bargained for? (e.on’s bid mini-site includes the revelation in the Discurso de Dr. Wulf H. Bernotat that they have a programme called on.top. If German-based concerns want to appear international, then maybe…

Carnival in court

Here, from 1957, is Cádiz Renfe’s stationmaster using the regional Information and Tourism-crat to get a carnival club to change the title of their mini-show from “The Stationmaster and His Subordinates” to “Infernal Train Emigrants”. Here‘s an equally hilarious case from 2004, in which the mayoress and assistant of Archidona (Málaga) obtain a court order…

A village called Sin

Shame Guy Bellamy (A village called Sin) wrote about Compton Sinton instead of Sín, Huesca.

Off-topic

“For brevity, all references to plaintiff’s current name will be shortened to ‘I am the Beast’.” (Via MM)

Copper popper

This Torygraph reference to Blair’s determination “to hurl the full force of the law against anybody who dared to ‘glorify’ terrorism” had me imagining constables being trebucheted into Luton. Not, fortunately.

Werner von

My favourite enemy is hearing alarm bells going off in his head. Do his ears face inwards or what?! He also regularly has lunch with Willy J. Now, that I am prepared to believe.

Bumgalow/lumbago

Maxime calls it an anaphoneme. Pig Latin is more complex, but voice confidentiality tool Babble appears to be anaphonemic: Babble is a desktop device that connects to the telephone and sends the user’s voice out in multiplied and “babbled” form through proprietary speakers arranged in the work area. It achieves confidentiality without distracting the user…