Unexpected finds

A couple of days back, Mr O sent me a list of URLs, none of which is quite as radical as it may first appear to a number of you: http://www.cummingfirst.com http://www.expertsexchange.com http://www.penisland.org http://www.scatissue.com http://www.childsexpress.com http://www.teacherstalk.co.uk http://www.budget.co.ck http://www.therapistfinder.com I commented that they were seriously undervalued, rather as http://burger.com would be if used to promote civic…

Reading this evening…

Flemish jurisprudence dealing with relationships between potato coops and their tax-mitigating members. One new expression: tegensprekelijk debat, from the French débat contradictoire of réunion contradictoire, meaning basically (and slightly bizarrely to my mind) a meeting or hearing at which several or all parties are present. Due to some aspect of legal history with which I…

New Andalusian national virtual reality hymn

Sounder quarters have noted growing interest in other-language versions of the dawnzer lee light song. Something similar is afoot here, where Andalusian nationalist-socialism has not been content merely to copy its entire statute of autonomy from the Polaks: Andalucía triunfante volverá a zer rica y llena Atráh ezta gente tan ufana y tan zoberbia ¡Buen…

Marseilles’ first female contract-killer

Having a gunwoman riding pillion on the scooter seems a good idea, rather like female coxes in boat racing. One can imagine few worse distractions from one’s enduring preoccupation with road safety than having some big sweaty guy fiddling with his gun behind one’s back.

Botellón

Kalebeul hopes to avoid the widescale unrest we believe will result from police action against nocturnal street drinks parties by implementing two preventative strategies: 30 years ago three gentlemen in Bar Manolo were given a monthly allowance on condition they drink all the alcohol in Spain. Project delivery date: 20:00 17/3/2006. All streeting from the…

Why not dump “nation” from the constitution?

Check Ana Nuño’s Pequeño manual de mitología española. As she notes, one of the big problems we face is the dispute between those who say that “nation” is used in the constitution to refer to the group constituted by most of those living within Spain’s frontiers, and those who say that the word is actually…

Why not dump "nation" from the constitution?

Check Ana Nuño’s Pequeño manual de mitología española. As she notes, one of the big problems we face is the dispute between those who say that “nation” is used in the constitution to refer to the group constituted by most of those living within Spain’s frontiers, and those who say that the word is actually…

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…

Off-topic

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

Stats

Thanks to Franco Alemán for the links–certainly helps drive up numbers, currently around 2,500 individuals daily. Re his point about the irrelevance of foreign correspondents: someone once told me that Rafael Ramos@London is in fact a Málaga cannabis lawyer, which surely isn’t true but which might explain a lot.