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Foreign cuisine in Liverpool
Other Men's Flowers | July 8th 2008
In the sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, Alf Garnett's socialist son-in-law was played by Anthony Booth, whose daughter later became the wife of Tony Blair. Alf frequently called him (Booth, that is) randy scouse git.The word scouse for a Liverpudlian or read more
Coin Harvester Without Remorse
Back of the Cereal Box | July 7th 2008
Worthwhile links from my Google Reader shared clips page:Giant squid found off the Santa Cruz coast.Not for the weak-stomached: the trailer for the horrific Tokyo Gore Police.The incredible craftiness of the octopus.Everyone else seems wowed by the c read more
"Green" - as promised...
Diane Smith - Illo Talk | July 7th 2008 by Diane Smith
As I mentioned before, I did another study in acrylics that I'm sharing here.I've been working on this because (1) I need practice with the acrylics, and (2) it's part of the project I'm working on for my Saturday Community College Illustration Class read more
Urban Dictionary - WOD, Random, Slang Lookup, and a funny Thesaur…
Google Mini Apps | July 7th 2008 by Mini Apps
if(showGadget){document.write("[inline]");}[/inline]Google Gadget Description:This Urban Dictionary Gadget does it all. You can get todays Word Of The Day, roll the dice and hit the Random button, Look up funny Slang words or even use UD like a Thesa read more
Time wasting fun!
Four-Part Harmony | July 7th 2008 by Harmony
Here is something neat I found on Jenny's blog. It is called a Wordle and you can make your own here. Here is a few I made today:This one I made just by using a bunch of words to describe me and my familyThis is one I made for my friend Peanut, using read more
English language genercide: the power of popular usage.
Rob's Megaphone | July 7th 2008 by Dr. Rob
In one of my first posts titled Evolving Language, we saw that with over 600,000 words, English contains more words than any language in human history. That posts explored how the English language acquires new words. This post adds another dimension; read more
Naš dom
matej.blog | July 7th 2008
je že precej star. No, vsaj tisti izvodi revije so bili, ki sem jih odkril pohajkujoč po že omenjenem Hotelu Jasmin, kjer sem bil prvo noč popolnoma sam. Samcat. Alone. Edini gost. V celem hotelu. Brez receptorja, kuharice ali sobarice. So šli d read more
Information Tontology
FairyVisions | July 7th 2008
Come ho numerose volte esternato su Twitter, in questo periodo il mio capo, siccome va in ferie, mi ha preso un assistente per darmi una mano nei lavori più noiosi. E fin qui lo apprezzo. Ma. L’assistente è figlio di un dirigente di questa az read more
Felicity Schickfick
Back of the Cereal Box | July 7th 2008
As the result of aimless Wikipedia-wandering, I somehow ended up on the page for Heather Graham’s character in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Why she warrants her own Wikipedia page, I couldn’t tell you, but the article includes an intere read more
Youth Day Special
Let Peace Inspire You | July 7th 2008 by Peace
Mystery of the Mysteries Today is a special day. First time Youth Day celebrated on 7 July. Youth Day normally celebrated on 1st July. First time, I could not believe what Ricsson told me, until it was really true, after what I had seen with my ow read more
A brief history
Ellis Nadler's Sketchbook | July 6th 2008 by Ellis Nadler
A brief history of the world.Scraperboard 24cm x 13cm. Click to enlarge. read more
Uma imagem vale mais que mil palavras…
Sharing our love with all world | July 6th 2008 by Isaque Jesus
Lê-Nos Para Nós Site Pois é, porque queremos que o nosso site esteja sempre actualizado, deixámo-nos de conversa e pusémos mãos à obra! …e porque adoramos os teus comentários… Agora não precisas de escr read more
An Affected Effect
Electronic Ephemera | July 6th 2008
Confusing Words - A collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused. read more
Wordle makes your text into a word cloud!
momo | July 6th 2008 by momo
Jonathan Fineburg has created a lovely thing called Wordle. It allows you to make word-clouds out of any text and play around with fonts and colors. You can then post your creation to a gallery. The site's gallery makes these images available to anyo read more
Scalpitante come un cavallo
FairyVisions | July 6th 2008
Venerdì mattina ho fatto un colloquio di lavoro. Mi hanno fatto un’offerta, una lettera di impegno e tante promesse. Ho firmato la lettera e sono rientrata in ufficio convinta di licenziarmi. Poi 4 ore di riunione con il mio capo, e ho stravol read more
Vacation is hard work!
Travel Blog | July 5th 2008 by Marco Belemmi
Getting ready to go on vacation is hard work! My parents have rented a house on Whidby Island in the Puget Sound, WA. We’ve been there before. My minister uncle lived there for a while and Dad sold his art in some of the stores up there … read more
Email Saying I am a Cross between Jane Austen Author and June Car…
My Outlook on Everything Blog | July 5th 2008 by Outlook-Everything
Nothing is strange in my life but today it is one of those days. I got an anonymous email today by someone maybe it is from heaven I don’t know. Yes people in heaven can sent you email. I think this one of those letters but maybe not. Telling me I read more
Lazy Eights
Back of the Cereal Box | July 5th 2008
See this?See that there? That number eight, drunk on its on power? Grown floppy from the knowledge that it is the first whole number to be both a square and a cube? It’s not an eight. It’s considerably greater than that, as it signifies infinity. read more
“Woody and Tinny Words”
Language For You | July 5th 2008 by Mark Stoneman
Here’s a funny Monty Python sketch about words. It includes a few “naughty words” too, so don’t say I didn’t warn you. You might also want to read the transcript. read more
Is It the Sardine Smell?
Back of the Cereal Box | July 5th 2008
Wait, was I the only person who didn't know that "pasta puttanesca" literally translates to "whore's noodles"? read more
Lovesick
The Boy Who Could But Didn't | July 5th 2008 by Ben Leto
But it was not until the 22nd century and the refinement of quantum theory to the point of application that such aspects of pathology were truly understood. Once physicists first observed the behaviour of particles that existed in a multidimensional read more
Fighting Poor English Usage
Language For You | July 4th 2008 by Mark Stoneman
Whenever I run across words that people mix up with other words, I try to explain the problem. This effort has led to posts on the following words: between / among, many / much, fewer / less effect / affect en masse, read more
Nagradne igre ovefloweth
matej.blog | July 4th 2008
Tokrat posebna nagradna igra - brez nagrade, odštevši čast in slavo. A ugibanje je tako zabavno! Torej: kaj je narobe na zgornji fotografiji?Look closely... read more
Happy Fourth of July to All, USA 4th of July 4
My Outlook on Everything Blog | July 4th 2008 by Outlook-Everything
With high gas process, the war, people losing jobs, loss of homes, higher prices on everything. It makes a person wonder if this is such a happy Fourth of July. To be honest I am really scared right now for America. Are we strong to survive this we a read more
The Friday Five - Vol. 2
BlogsWeLuv | July 4th 2008 by Tish
Welcome to our second addition of the Friday Five! As with all blogs we present to you here, I’m hoping you’ll find something that grabs your interest in this week’s five spotlighted blogs. As will always be welcome, if you read a g read more
My Life No Internet for a Day, Computer Scans
My Outlook on Everything Blog | July 4th 2008 by Outlook-Everything
Was having problems with my internet provider could not get online at all. I sort of took the day off not by choice really because I was in work mode. But it gave me time to actually work on my computer doing things that I have been putting off. I ha read more
Dont Help Each Other Didnt Do Anything, Woman Died Right in Hospi…
My Outlook on Everything Blog | July 4th 2008 by Outlook-Everything
What has happened to humans no one helps each other anymore. I heard about this story in the news on how a woman died right in the waiting room of the hospital. She was lying on the floor for an hour with no doing a thing to help. She is in hospital read more
Add Fireworks to Your Next Presentation
Bigg Success | July 4th 2008 by biggsuccess
We’re celebrating the 4th of July here in the United States. Fun, friends, and … "Fireworks! I love the fireworks. Watching them always makes me feel like a kid." "One of my favorite stories is about a fireworks sho read more
Dopust je bil obilen
matej.blog | July 3rd 2008
Za to so poskrbele ogromne večerne porcije v Hotelu Jasmin v Podčetrtku. Tale me je pričakala prvi dan:Vino je beli Konjičan iz Zlatega griča... po okusu me je (vsaj takrat) spominjal na Srebrno radgonsko penino :PKar mogoče niti ni tako far-f read more
Summer tips no.3 - Summer listening
cataspanglish | July 3rd 2008 by cataspanglish
Podictionary is a short, free podcast with a transcription available daily or weekly.Charles Hodgson, creator of Podictionary says,"Every day podictionary delivers a new short story about the history of a common word to thousands of subscribed listen read more
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