I've been enjoying Alexx's descriptions of signs he sees, but I really wish there was a Website where someone collected and captioned the best signs ( Read more... )

Posted mostly for the amusement of you know who you are. My screenreader does weird things with pronounciation marks, but you can find these words with their proper spelling and more at ( Read more... )

"The Name of the Roue"

Now I have the image of Maurice Chevalier wandering around the abbey singing "Thank Heaven for little girls..."

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Pelf is money gained in a disreputable manner, as in,
Pirates plunder pelf!
Mostly, I just posted this because I wanted to get that bit of alliterative silliness out of my ssystem. Also, for those of you who play Scrabble, this seems as if it would be a really useful word.

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What it was supposed to be: Purgatorio
What I heard: PurgaTokyo
The scanno: Purgatokio

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What I heard: "Caroling iron"
Is this some sort of blunt object carried by carollers in order to enforce payment of the figgy pudding? Sadly, no.

What the word actually was: a scanno of "Carolingian"

Carolling Carolingians carrying carolling irons? Could this be a new tradition?

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Found as an epigraph in a book about the philosophy of Abelard:

Suae specialiter suus singulariter

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I was listening to clips from a new Woody Guthrie compilation CD, and came across another compilation, titled "Til We Outnumber 'Em," which had a great MP3 by Craig Werner. He told a story about how, in the early days of his radio show, Guthrie would tell racist jokes, until he received a letter from a young black man who said that those "jokes" ( Read more... )

Diogenes the Cynic 5th century BC ( Read more... )

This is the epigraph to _The Encyclopedia of the Dead_ by Danilo Kis; I am including the translation given by Google, but it doesn't entirely make sense to me, so I wanted to make sure the translation was correct before I banged my head against it some more ( Read more... )