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(in our Swedish Signs For Fridays Series)

"Clean, Sexy Water"-- charity: water

The NYT just did an article on a friend's uber fab nyc based charity, charity: water which you can read here and add your thoughts here.

this video tells all...

giggle and hop

Despite all his success as a painter and illustrator, Edward Lear felt like an outcast in respectable British society. He wrote in his diary:

"Nothing I long for half so much as to giggle heartily and to hop on one leg ... but I dare not."

and now for something completely different... Inflationary Language--watch the clip on my Tumblr blog--and try your hand at some inflationary language of your own.

HISS

Sign in Helsingborg. In our Swedish (even though I do actually speak not one word of Swedish as such) Signs for Fridays Series.

Limerick Challenge!

At the suggestion of Kristen I am launching a Limerick challenge: for you to try your hand at The Limerick and write your very own.

If you feel like it put your limerick in the comments spot of the limerick post yesterday (here) and we'll all have a good laugh (with not at you I promise!)

Limericks

Now it's high time for some more Limericks. Limericks? you say. (I mentioned them last post but here we delve deeper... I like saying "delve" it makes me happy. You try. It's even better if you can add "dig" in, too. See if you can get "dig and delve" into several conversations today.)

Limericks are sometimes looked down on. Reasons given are:
1/they're simple
2/short
3/only have 5 lines
4/and they're not very hard to write

(come to think of it, isn't that pretty much what some people think of ch

the father of nonsense

Edward Lear (1812-1888), the British poet and painter known for his absurd wit, has been called "the father of nonsense" and wrote, what else but, The Complete Nonsense (a bind up of all his various nonsense: nonsense alphabets, nonsense botany, nonsense songs, nonsense stories, nonsense pitures, nonsense rhymes), which is the first book I remember reading all the way through. I was about 7 and adored it. I didn't know it was allowed. To speak and write such a load of nonsense like that. And get

BAD sign

(in our small Swedish Signs for Fridays Series)

Fourth Plinth

(Plinth is a nice word. And Fourth Plinth is even nicer. It's also quite nice to say it twice. Fourth Plinth Fourth Plinth. Except then you feel as if you have something wrong with your tongue)

Trafalgar Square has four plinths. (Sorry. Why are you telling us this again?) The plinths are these enormous pedestals that stand at the four corners of the square. Three of them hold statues of George IV, Henry Havelock, and Sir Charles James Napier. (No, seriously, why?)

The fourth plinth (fourth plinth

PS random odd fact

random fact for today

it will be... shortly...
(in America at least)
12:34:56 7/8/9

and all over the world, in a couple of months, it will be
09:09:09 09/09/09

What does it all mean? Nothing

and now i have a headache.