La bigamia è avere una moglie di troppo. La monogamia lo stesso.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Bigamia é ter uma esposa a mais. Monogamia é o mesmo.
La bigamia consiste en tener una mujer de más. La monogamia lo mismo.
La bigamie consiste à avoir une femme en trop. La monogami aussi d'ailleurs.

O. Wilde

...and apparently, so do the corny puns.

It seems that Dutch supercarmaker Spyker has agreed to buy Saab. This pleases me; I always did like that slightly eccentric Swedish brand ( Read more... )

The interesting things one can learn in a dictionary: Houston may take a faintly terrifying turn in the future, but somehow, I doubt this. Wiktionary's current example sentence for the word "rakish": ... the rakish Dennis Quaid, a Houston native who is moving to Texas in a couple of years and wants it to become "the new Hollywood." (Houston ( Read more... )

Ian: "We have Valentine's so that adults can have a prom every year."

This article documents something truly amazing. I don't have a lot of commentary on it, as the author herself seems a bit incredulous at the entire idea of a blog devoted to griping about having to trim off a portion of the utterly wretchèd excess that constituted these women's entire lives now that their finance jockey boyfriends/lovers/paramours/ ( Read more... )

If you want some evidence that America is dumbing down, I offer you conclusive proof today: Jeopardy!I never watched Jeopardy! too much (in large part because my father claims to have had the Final Jeopardy! theme song stuck in his head continuously for three years, and was not eager to expose himself to it again after getting it loose), but when I ( Read more... )

I've commented before on how short our memories are. This is rarely made as clear as during a political campaign. What prompted me to start wondering aloud about this was when I noticed the consistency with which Hillary Clinton is referred to as "Senator from New York", without the slightest hint of irony or sarcasm. Let's be clear on this here: ( Read more... )