For a while it sounded like Morse machine being boiled alive, something which probably hasn’t happened for quite a long time, and for sure it’s a terrible thing to be doing anyway. (You may need to turn up the sound. I’m using YouTube and accepting its lack of editing facilities because, like various other famous…
El Niño de Tetuán singing fandangos (MP3s or him and a superb selection of others). We’re probably talking early 1930s, but I don’t know where–Seville or Jerez seems more likely than Tetuan :-): A esa liebre no tirarle cazaores de la sierra a esa liebra no tirarle porque está haciendo en la tierra madriguera pa…
Yes, I know that modern Aragonese ultra-nationalists aren’t quite the same as old German ultra-nationalists, but that c/z swap does look rather unfortunate, doesn’t it.
Solbes is going to fund his promised tax cuts (keeps the centre happy) by whacking up duties on alcohol and tobacco (fodder for the bulgy-eyed health fundamentalists), so what better way to stop him than by supporting a liberal constitutionalist called Bouza, and the hell with pronunciation and coherence.
The new version appears to have been introduced without any serious testing or any credible bug reporting system having been devised–check the chaos over at Something in Writely is broekn. My particular problem is that using IE6 on Win XP it is no longer possible to paste into docs without the browser crashing, which makes…
Urquhart, The Pillars of Hercules, Or, A Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848: “I observed, on a placard, the two following signs of progress and civilization, in titles of new works: ‘The defender of the fair sex,’ and ‘The Ass, a beastly periodical.’ The words were ‘Il Burro, periodico bestial.” Re the…
I didn’t know you could charter bits of Morocco (via Felix@Morocco Time), but then, unlike Isabel Choat, I’m not on a Grauniad account ;-) More on Moroccan vices and prices from Cat in Rabat, who ain’t got a cook neither.