You're not gonna believe this, but there is a female analogue for Pope, and it's Mome. :)

define political prisoners

´"We came back to the issue of political prisoners in Cuba and their health, and the answer we got was that in Cuba there are no political prisoners," the Czech minister added.´

EU-Cuba meeting - BBC Article May 11th, 2009

filozoful era timisorean.

I've got an obsession for this image I randomly found on Google.

Adică am înrămat-o şi/sau lipit-o pe pereţi, la mine sau la alţii, am înmânat-o prietenilor care erau în trecere pe la mine, ca să se continue înpereţirea, şi am imrpresia că o mai aşteaptă lucruri măreţe.

Ain' it a darling?




found on history of ze shirt (in ze German language)

de pe Ctrl V

People who do things are happier than people who don't do things. I rarely do things.
the man who fell asleep.
(turning gold into base metal since 1975)

no comment.

M-am tot gandit la gumele de mestecat-tigari in ultima vreme... si ajungeam mereu la concluzia ca sigur nu le mai gasesc nicaieri, ca trebuie sa fi fost interzise, ca doar instiga minorii la fumat... and to my surprise... intram intr-un kiosk, Romina isi cumpara tigari si mie imi cad ochii pe niste cutiute...



(daca sufli in tigara iese "fum" alb)
((Made in Macedonia!))

Am dormit într-o noapte cu uşa de la intrare larg deschisă, şi să nu credeţi ca ar fi existat vreo casă a scării, ceva... Nu. Uşa dă din stradă direct în hol iar din hol se intră în camere. Totuşi, uşa de la hol era închisă, ceea ce mi-a înlesnit lipsa de observatie şi cum eram singură acasă eram ocupată cu chestii care mă absorb oricum şi nu prea mă gândeam la lucruri aşa palpabile cum e uşa de la intrare. A doua zi dimineaţa am privit surprinsă uşa larg deschisă şi am închis-o imediat (ca să compensez pt toate orele din noapte - amintiţi-mi să fac ceva cu yala aia că uneori rămâne blocată pe deschis şi pe urmă curentul....never mind). Oamenii care vor fi intrat pe uşă la mine n-or fi luat nimic pt că m-au vazut dormind asa dusă că s-or fi gandit: a, hai sa-i lasam la săraca adormită laptopul ei răblăgit de 5 ani (singura chestie din casa aia care cândva valorase ceva!). Aparatul foto nu l-or fi observat, sau, dacă l-au observat, l-au lăsat dracului în urmă că oricum nu era digital! Dacă duceau frigiderul, ştiau şi ei ca m-aş fi trezit...!

Un spectacol regizat de Puric, cu care a fost in turneu in China, se numeste "Aici sunt lei" datorita anecdotei cum ca romanii, atunci and nu reusau sa cucereasca un tinut, scriau pe harta: Hic sunt leones. :D

"A cat is not a degenarate dog" a spus proful meu azi la cursul despre istoria texturii literare (citand pe altcineva la randul lui), pentru a ilustra de ce in textele moderne nu ar trebui sa se caute un inteles asemanator intelesurilor care se gaseau in textele de mai inainte. Kafka is not a degenerate Dostoievski... deci, si prin urmare, don't expect to see the cat wagging its tail at you, don't expect to hear the dog purring when you pet it, si celelalte concluzii pe care ar trebui sa le tragem din toate acestea....

DIE INNERE LEERE starrt ihrem opfer hypnotisch in die Augen und vermittelt ihm das gefuhl, sie sei unglaublich wichtig, tiefsinnig und geheimnisvoll. Dabei ist sie total hohl. Auf diese weise sorgt sie dafur,dass es auch beim Opfer drinnen schon leer bleibt.

Sound Muffler for Covering the Mouth

Patent no. 4,834,212
Issued: May 30, 1989
Inventors: Moira and Frank Figone, Belmont, CA

A device into which a person may yell or scream without disturbing others, allowing him to vent built-up anger and frustration. The interior of the muffler is coated with foam. A microphone can be included to pick up a some sound and activate a light display or meter giving the user immediate visual feedback as to the intensity of sound produced.

More weird and wonderful patents that might well describe what we feel deep inside at:
Brown and Michaels Weird and Wonderful Patents

There's a 50% Chance That You Need Therapy

If you think you need therapy, you probably do. But there's a good chance you don't. Like everyone else, you have your fair share of problems. And unlike most people, you're fairly good at solving them yourself.

Do You Need Therapy?

Life is strange here as well as elsewhere.
In Sri Lanka
"One is compelled to ask the obvious as a form of greeting which may sound strange to a non-native speaker. For instance, when one is rushing to work in the morning, one hears the question of ‘vedata yanawa-da?’ (engl. Are you going for work?) many times as long as one meets someone on the way. Similarly, one experiences several occasions everyday where the redundant questions are asked and one answers in the affirmative.

Eg.: (1) In a supermarket – badu ganna aava- da? (engl. Did you come to buy some stuff? )
(2) At a book fair . pot ganna aavada? (engl. Did you come to buy books?)
(3) When one is on the way laden with goods: kadee giyaa-da? (engl. Did you go to the store?)

In rural areas one still goes to the river or to a bathing well for a bath. When one carries a bucket, towel and a change of clothes, one hears the following greeting

Eg.: (4) naana yanawa-da? (engl. Are you going for a bath?).

This question seems to be used very often as seen by the fact that even a parrot raised in a house in one village (where the path to the river leads past the house) asking everyone going with a bucket and a towel towards the river ‘naana yanawa-da’?. What may appear even more strange is when one is having a bath in the river one is asked the following question as a form of greeting (Disanayaka, 2005).

Eg.: (5) naanawa-da? (engl. Are you having a bath?) "

N.C. Premawardhena - How diplomatic can a language be? The unwritten rules in a language: an analysis of Spoken Sinhala