Commissary, Pick Up

“ Steve the is a well-known oceanographer in an international top, his behaviour is peculiar, the lifetime and biggest habit is to goes to the bottom of sea risky… The place of the may appear a kind of extreme and terrible marine life very much. It is America.

— So true. Combining the themes of sea fleets and poor English, this is the blurb from my DVD of The Life Aquatic. I think it may be a knockoff.

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Embarrassed 19th Century Moldovan monkey.

“ In Kalmari, at single dwelling, copious are the anecdotes of monkey harm. Upon police visitation, man of offending is thrusting assurances all of monkeys are for to be made freedom. At length police are in belief of him, but wait. Lately is transpired that generous portion of monkeys were forcing to make circus funny, and often are dressing like men of the sea fleet, but for monkeys perhaps this makes embarass.

— I found this touching account on the website of the Moldovian Animal League, there is nothing funny about animal cruelty.

“ An unfortunate moment of municipality of Aliakmona, a dustman put an alive but fainted by poison dog in the garbage truck, and the dog pulped. This event followed by remonstrant from all the Greece. The mayor, as an authority, called the dustmen to give explanation about the crime.

— Welfare Animal Society of Kastoria; I found this website very moving, there’s a slew of anecdotes about horrible incidents of animal cruelty recounted in the sort of English you get on Vietnamese bootleg DVDS. I giggled inappropriately several times.

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A poopah. Who knew?

Bundt Cake! (via ohskylab)

This is where it’s at.

Bear Grylls. Wanker.

» Sam Wollaston: Spa tub, TV, steaks ... Bear Grylls survives a night in the wilderness | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

I’d never heard of Bear Grylls until I read this article last week. Now I know that he is rugged and wrestles blueberry pancakes.

“ More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

— George W. Bush

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The Internet is littered with fragments of Paul’s psyche.

Who is this mustachioed man? He looks awfully familiar.

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I didn’t know Hogwarts ran an adult education programme.

» A visit to the Cantillon Brewery

Brussels Museum of the Gueuze
“The Van Roy-Cantillon family welcomes you and will be glad to unveil to you the mistery of the production of traditional lambic.” Do they mean mystery or misery?

Hey, Nonny Nonny! I found a much clearer version of this hilarious strip.