The coveted 1066 Award for the 1066th comment on the new blog goes to:
JPT
… who points out, at his place, that the Poles are integrating nicely over our way, which is more than can be said for some.
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[English note: I run these occasional posts in French because written French is fairly easy for English speakers to get the gist of, especially my own French, which is more difficult for the French to understand.]
Muriel Moreno est un exemple d’un artiste qui est la principale force dans un groupe, comme Deborah Harry et Susanna [...]
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Springtime for Hitler – Mel Brooks
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Good people, my only advice today is not to venture out this evening, when all the spirits of evil are abroad and whatever you do today or in the next two days, don’t go round the church widdershins and make sure you don’t dance nine times widdershins around a fairy ring of toadstools.
So, All Hallows [...]
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Nowhere is the Brit more conservative than in his choice of yacht. Uffa Fox, Chichester, Royal Solent and so on – the boat of choice is a bermudan rigged monohull, that monohull has traditional lines, it plugs its way upwind and ambles downwind with a brightly coloured spinnaker, not unlike the brightly coloured tie with [...]
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I have a question – you might like to watch this first:
So to the question:
Did Ben Johnson win that race in 9.79 seconds? Or did a beast win it?
Similarly, did Agassi win those tennis matches or did a beast win them? Did he drop the people in it who enabled him to carve out his [...]
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From a Dutch commenter at Reuters:
We dutch people said ‘NO’ to the new European treaty. Then Balkenende decided, that we should not be allowed to vote again after the politicians made same cosmetic changes to the treaty. Then Balkenende said ‘YES’ to giving away our rights and our sovereignty against our explicit will. So the [...]
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1. Casablanca
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Casino Royale [2006]
4. Singin’ in the Rain [two people]
5. Chinatown
Saturday – here are the answers:
Michael Curtiz, Victor Fleming, Martin Campbell, Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, Roman Polanski
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The world’s largest cruise liner on Friday began its maiden voyage to Florida, gliding out from a shipyard in Finland with an amphitheater, basketball courts and an ice rink on board.
The 16-deck Oasis of the Seas spans 1,200 feet (360 meters) from bow to stern. Its 2,700 cabins can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew.
Commissioned [...]
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Had to stop after the seventh. Which would you add?
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What four related words are merged here:
SWAS PURI UINM NTTU MGER MNER
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Lieberman simply says what a lot of of us are thinking:
“There’s a hard core of partisan, passionate, hardcore Republicans. There’s a hard core of partisan Democrats on the other side. And in between is the larger group, which is people who really want to see the right thing done, or want something good done for [...]
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