Kaleboel – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Son of a broker

A Dutch compliment becomes a French insult.

Is the anglocabrón longing for sun, sangria and sex a new phenomenon?

Blasco Ibáñez says that actually we have always thought “at all hours of the Mediterranean rim.”

Can someone work out from this steaming pool of verbal diarrhea if they’re loading the donkey down with GPS recorders etc and then letting it go wherever it wants? Now that would be really interesting. Er, not, actually. [Whatever happened to Deirdre (?) and the donkey and cart with which she made her way from…

Bites with denomination of origin

Tracing that hot doggie.

Raphael tortures Aquarius, Matt Monro destroys Libre (subtitled)

Do Spanish speakers get more excited about “defective” accents than English speakers?

Mysterious Zaragoza nights

Between-wars texts about Zaragoza by Germans who appear never to have visited the place.

El gallito inglés / le coq anglais

Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.

Photo by <a href=http://www.drbizarre.net/post/el-gallito-ingles>Dr. Bizarre</a>, licence <a href=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/mx/>CC 2.5 Mexico</a>

SCAM

Or, the (Parisian) Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia (via). Recalls SHIT (photos), the Servicio de Hosteleria Industrial de Terrassa, which sells big saucepans. Should organisations aim for stupid/obscene acronyms on the basis that all shit is good shit?

Man combing Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in Cuenca courtyard

Or perhaps it isn’t.

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