May 2011
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May 31st
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May 31st
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May 29th
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Date ideas
Click here! And if after proposing such dates your boyfriend is still there, marry him.
May 28th
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Simple desktops →
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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Fire if you're deaf. →
It’s so politically correct that it can’t be moving. But it is.
May 13th
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May 13th
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May 13th
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Say something new (French edition)
À boire ou je tue le chien! Bring me something to drink or I kill the dog!   Arriver comme un cheveu sur la soupe About a remark in a conversation, to be completely irrelevant (literally: “to arrive like a hair in the soup”)  Attaquer bille en tête He didn’t beat about the bush (literally: “to attack with a marble in head”)  Avoir chaud aux plumes To escape a...
May 12th
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May 12th
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“Au fond de l’Inconnu, pour trouver du nouveau.”
– Charles Baudelaire, Le Voyage
May 11th
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The answer is 42.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of Douglas Adams. Probably it’s a good occasion to say thanks for all the laughter, for the importance given to common towels, for teaching us that sometimes questions are more important then answers and that the Infinite Improbability Drive is exactly what moves our lives.
May 11th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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Bang!
My Dutch granny: So, do you have a friend?
Me: Ehm, no.
My Dutch granny: Oh. (Slightly disappointed)
Me: It's just that it's hard to find someone new and interesting...
My Dutch granny: Ja... It has to be like "Bang, that's him." You'll see, and you should go ice skating. It works.
Ice skating. Now.
May 10th
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May 3rd
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IT WAS THE LINGUISTS
A small story of linguistic relativity by David Chess. Maybe it wouldn’t have been so bad if we hadn’t been each other’s First Contacts. Virgin civilizations, groping each other in the dark. “Damn it, damn it, damn it,” the smaller of the two men moaned, his head down in his arms on the broken table, as the sounds coming in through the half-boarded-up window...
May 3rd
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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By the sheer centripetal force of sympathy.
Useful phrases for random use. A A bewildering labyrinth of facts A blank absence of interest or sympathy A bloodless diplomatist A breach of confidence A brilliant and paradoxical talker A burning sense of shame and horror A century of disillusionment A certain catholicity of taste... Click for more
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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Book Spine Poems →
Nice and funny, now I know how to waste my evening.
May 1st
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May 1st
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