Category: Vehicles

Daisy, Daisy, give me your serpent, do!

One of the proudest memories of my musical career is of a mission undertaken on behalf of the Dutch nation to a Swedish folk festival, at which a programme of James Last covers was performed to accompany the wobblings of a display team of penny-farthing riders. Some believe that the deep affinity that exists between…

Holdups

“It is unfortunate it happened but it could have happened to them anywhere,” said the Spanish Tourist Office of a roadside attack here on a family from Devon by a Latino gang. Er, probably not in Devon.

road opera

Not only (as Margaret Marks notes) has the BBC started using trucker instead of lorry-driver or patient with chronic back pain and a dietary disorder: the Americanism has been the preferred usage in Holland for years. Henk Wijngaard’s 1978 hit, Met De Vlam In De Pijp, is probably the best-known Dutch truckliedje. Try singing this…

estratègia de basura

un problema Del MediaDailyNews: [Un] estudi … [ha revelat] que els espectadors [americans] han d’aguantar un increïble 52 minuts de basura promocional durant un bloc típic de tres hores de prime time en les quatre cadenes principals. Aquesta xifra és 8% més que en 2000 i 36% més que en 1991… La durada mitja dels…

gerry adams in syria

Slugger O’Toole quotes Mark Durkan on RTE’s Question and Answers: “Gerry Adams has been on more roads to Damascus than a Syrian bus driver.” For the best election analysis you’re likely to read anywere, check the current edition of Portadown News.

MTV

Should the lawyers of what sometimes used to be known as Music Television be talking to those of Motos TV (or Motor Bike Television or whatever), or is this simply a hobbyist wrecking his van?

semàfors

Als EUA es ven (p2) un aparell per a canviar alguns semàfors de vermell a verd.

Toch wel

Ik heb onze politici onderschat: je gaat straks toch meer betalen om hier je auto niet te zien verdwijnen van de straat. De duurste tovenaars van Spanje, de gemeentelijke wegsleepdienst, gaan miv 1/1/2004 EUR130 vragen. Nu is de oppositie … boos. Want, zeggen ze, de bedoeling van deze verhoging is niet om de dienst kostendekkend…