Two versions of Flann O’Brien’s “The workman’s friend”
With some relevant chunks of Henry Fielding.
Tag: france
I am the way, but which way?
Three classic Francophone tubes I’d never heard of
Boby Lapointe in Ta Katie t’as quitté, Petit Yodé and l’Enfant Siro in Premier jour à Paris, and Zao’s take on Ancien combattant.
Wordsworth’s take on the French revolution cast in doubt by a French corpus n-gram
French and Russian cavalry rode backwards in retreat?!
This claim helped defeat Valentine Shortis’ insanity plea at his murder trial in 1895-6, but was it true?
More Guardian crap about Spain
Berlusconi and the wiseness of Mubarak
“The wisest of men” line isn’t the former’s, but ben trovato it certainly is.
Origins of cock and bull
I’m going to try and pin it on John of Bridlington’s rapidly disproven prophecy of a cock and bull and Anglo-French relations.
Coals to Newcastle, or the great Spanish electricity export swindle
If Spain is selling electricity to France, how come Spanish consumer prices are 50% higher than north of the border?
Three Russian rooster animations
“Big cock” and “The old man and the cock are versions of “Medio pollico” / “Demi-coq”, and “Why the cock wears shorts” is something else.
