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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
8:48 am	Собственно, одно другому не мешает (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
8:04 pm	Marital Visit The odd thing put away in the wrong place – cups and plates back in the cupboard that I always leave out, curtains open on the street that I always keep drawn, remind me of your recent brief progress through here, looking for something in the attic. How could I forget: butter in the fridge, but never eggs, burnt matches everywhere, in spite of the gas lighter, jam jars soaking in water to get the labels off. How typical of you to give the Chinese teapot a last chance to prove itself in company. And look at that tea towel slung like your signature over the back of a chair. I could weep for the small spoons lying down with the forks, the corkscrew with the tea strainer. Leave them where they are forever? Or harden my heart and put them back where they belong? Hugo Williams (2008) (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
1:10 pm	Другой формат И пели сплошь по-французски сначала. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
11:06 pm	Лучшее в Евровидении -- это Твиттер. (Comment on this)
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8:53 am	Две ссылки на тему дня Жесткое IMO the Guardian о том, что стоит смотреть, а когда можно и отлучиться: Special mention to Lithuania, the country that wrote a song about how love is blind, called it Love Is Blind, and then literally blindfolded the singer just to make sure that everyone understood precisely how blind love is. That's dedication above and beyond the call of duty. И прошлогодний комикс Scandinavia and the World, который нужно смотреть по ссылке, потому что в пост он толком не вставляется. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 25th, 2012
1:11 pm	Британская королева -- своими руками Инструкции -- на сайте The Lady. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
12:00 pm	UPD к новостям культуры Выяснилось, что это перевод Фалена -- тот, что "The devil take you, Uncle. Die!'". (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
7:36 pm	Кстати да You will remember that, contrary to what you might assume, depicting Isabella of France as being willing to take a lover at the age of sixteen and foist a child of non-royal blood onto the English throne is an insult to her, not a compliment. (Comment on this)
4:18 pm	Новости культуры Вот они и ходят в ru_translate с вопросами вроде "у автора неправильно -- можно я исправлю?": Orlando Figes translation scrapped in Russia amid claims of inaccuracies. Между тем Стивен Фрай записывает аудиокнигу "Евгений Онегин". Интересно, по которому переводу. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
2:59 pm	Королева Виктория -- теперь и в Твиттере https://twitter.com/#!/QueenVictoriaRI Правда, только на две недели -- но вдруг ей понравится, как Пипсу, и она станет постить и дальше. (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 20th, 2012
6:37 pm	ad vestales graecas Despite the disintegration of their politics and economy, the Greeks can still muster a crew of vestal virgins to light and nurture the Olympic flame. The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze. (отсюда) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
9:03 pm	How to DO remember that the best snubs are the ones that give the impression that you have changed your mind about something. Turning down an invitation immediately with an excuse, even a vague one, isn't a snub; as Sofia has shown, accepting an invitation and then cancelling at very short notice is. So, DON'T say "I'm sorry, I can't come after all because I realised that I had a conflicting engagement, what a terrible shame, I'll make it up to you". DO say "I'm sorry, I can't come after all because, well, you know". Then, do a close-lipped smile. И другие полезные советы о том, как правильно и эффективно выразить свое презрение (хотя я не вижу совершенно точного русского эквивалента для [to] snub). Между тем, западная молодежь открыла для себя бактерицидный гель как алкогольный напиток. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
7:42 pm	Вот уж отпраздновал инаугурацию French President François Hollande returns to Paris after lightning hits his Berlin-bound jet, says CNN affiliate BFM-TV. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 14th, 2012
7:27 pm	eejit “But in a cold-blooded way, as a writer I’ve had full value from Catholicism - I can say that. “It’s a great training in doubleness - this looks like bread but it is actually a man’s body, this looks like wine but it’s actually blood. And that’s very much a writer’s way of thinking - she comes in and says good morning, but she means damn you to hell.” (2 Comments |Comment on this)
7:21 pm	RTFM He signed off texts with "DC" or sometimes "LOL" – until she explained that the latter phrase meant "laugh out loud", not "lots of love". Вот же не везет человеку -- сначала про пирожки наврал с перепугу, а теперь уж и вовсе покрыл себя вечным позором. (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
11:02 am	Родителям маленьких детей На Гутенберге появилась весьма актуальная книжка 1908 года о том, как и чем занять ребенка разного возраста при помощи подручных материалов -- от фольги до зеленого горошка. Многие вещи вполне очевидны, но вдруг кому пригодится: Home Occupations for Boys and Girls. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
6:52 pm	Непереводимая игра слов на местном диалекте ...Then again, you can hardly eff and blind when addressing a leading independent school such as Brighton College. Not unless you happen to be a war hero like Douglas Bader, who reputedly treated the girls of Roedean or Cheltenham Ladies’ College (the uncertainty hints at urban myth, but we’ll let that pass) to a story of airborne derring-do in which one Fokker appeared on his tail, another Fokker attacked him from above… and so on, until the headmistress tried to staunch the pubescent giggling with: “Gels, I should perhaps explain that the, ahem, Fokker was a Second World War German fighter plane.” “Madam, that may very well be,” so legend has Bader responding. “These buggers were in Messerschmitts.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9260243/We-public-schoolboys-need-a-good-beating.html (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
11:00 am	Первое в истории нигерийское письмо Calabar February 2nd 1929. Kind Sir, On opening this epistle you will behold the work of a dejobbed person, and a very bewifed and much childrenised gentleman. Who was violently dejobbed in a twinkling by your goodself. For Heavens sake Sir consider this catastrophe as falling on your own head, and remind yourself as walking home at the moon's end of five savage wives and sixteen voracious children with your pocket filled with non-existent £ S D; not a solitudery sixpence; pity my horrible state when being dejobbed and proceeding with a heart and intestines filled with misery to this den of doom; myself did greedily contemplate culpable homicide, but Him who did protect Daniel (poet) safely through the lion's dens will protect his servant in his home of evil. As to reason given by yourself — goodself — esquire for my dejobbment the incrimination was laziness. No Sir. It were impossible that myself who has pitched sixteen infant children into this valley of tears, can have a lazy atom in his mortal frame, and the sudden departure of eleven pounds monthly has left me on the verge of the abyss of destitution and despair. I hope this vision of horror will enrich your dreams this night, and good Angel will meet and pulverise your heart of nether milestone so that you will awaken, and with as much alacrity as may be compatable with your personal safety, you will hasten to rejobulate your servant. So mote it be - Amen Yours despairfully Sgd. Asuquo Okon Inyang. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/10/dejobbed-bewifed-and-much-childrenised.html (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
7:48 pm	Правила ономастики Не нарекайте мальчика именем его отца. Помните, что однажды настанет день, когда их начнут называть "Старый Джон" и "Молодой Джон". Не датируйте девочку ее именем. Jubilee -- прелестное имя, но его обладательница не поблагодарит вас лет через тридцать. How to Be a Good Wife 1936 (Comment on this)