Just for a second, I wouldn't be spending any more time here for a while, but this event is too momentous: International Monty Python Status Day. And what could be better to celebrate the day than this:
Back to that vacation now. And thanks to Liza.
Due to various family affairs this blog will hibernate for the duration of two months.
Take care you all and don't take no wooden nickels from no strangers.
It wouldn't be the first time when the reality slavishly follows a writer's imagination. Still, judge for yourself: May 6, 2010, Guardian:
.A British company has struck oil in the Falkland Islands for the first time, threatening to ratchet up the diplomatic dispute with Argentina.And now this: Ghost Force, Patrick Robinson, 2006:
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A report about the announcement in La Nacion, Argentina's leading newspaper, prompted anguished reader comments. "They continue robbing us from under our noses," said one. "After a war, the winner imposes the conditions," said another.
Argentina lost a brief 1982 war with Britain over islands it calls the Malvinas. It still claims sovereignty and terms British control an occupation
The year is 2011.Uhu...
An oil-hungry world is starving . . .
. . . and Argentina, with Russia's help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to the islands for the second time in thirty years
The letter below reached our department by mistake, and we feel that it's our duty to make it available to the public:
Dear Sir/Madam,
In the selection of "Chinglish" signs that you have published recently on your esteemed site, there appears a picture that, in my humble opinion, doesn't belong to the selection:
As a person who have purchased and tasted on several occasions the beverage appearing in the picture, I hereby declare that it is not, I repeat, NOT a case of erroneous or, indeed, funny use of your highly esteemed language.
With profound respect,
Your ... [signature]
Here come snapshots of the on-line front pages of four different media sources, taken a few hours after the incident (click on the image to enlarge).
NYT:
WaPo:
Fox News:
And now - CNN:
Find the common missing element. No prizes.
Check out the male interviewer's eyes. Hilarious.
Why don’t we see demonstrations against Islamic dictatorships in London, Paris, Barcelona? Or demonstrations against the Burmese dictatorship? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the enslavement of millions of women who live without any legal protection? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the use of children as human bombs where there is conflict with Islam? Why has there been no leadership in support of the victims of Islamic dictatorship in Sudan? Why is there never any outrage against the acts of terrorism committed against Israel? Why is there no outcry by the European left against Islamic fanaticism? Why don’t they defend Israel’s right to exist? Why confuse support of the Palestinian cause with the defense of Palestinian terrorism? An finally, the million dollar question: Why is the left in Europe and around the world obsessed with the two most solid democracies, the United States and Israel, and not with the worst dictatorships on the planet?More here.
Gosh, why no one ever invites me to parties like this one? Is it antisemitism? Or ageism? Or what?
If only I were able to draw... Details by Wolf Howling.
That's truly a surprise as surprises go. It took her four years to get it through... and here I am, ready for adoption and already toilet trained...
Another page was turned in the annals of unnecessary research:
When the researchers controlled for other dietary factors that could be linked to mood ... they found only chocolate consumption correlated with mood.In other words, the more chocolate you consume, the more depressed you are. Strange, that: usually I am the most depressed when a sudden craving for chocolate comes on and there is none around.
Like alcohol, chocolate may contribute a short-term boost in mood followed by a return to depression or a worsened mood.Them scientists: so clever - for short term and limited points of view. Have they given thought to our day being a sequence of short time periods that could be made quite lovely by finely timed and tuned intake of chocolate, alcohol, tobacco and food? I guess not...
There is no English translation, but it's hardly required.
No comments.
I wonder... with the quantities of missiles they test every few days - do they shoot every missile off as soon as it leaves the factory gate?
Someone better explain to them... or not?
