A Welsh-language road sign causes confusion when it suggests that cyclists have a bladder infection.
Month: August 2006
Flanders and Flanders
Interesting fact of which I was not aware: Stephanie Flanders (the BBC journalist) is the daughter of Michael Flanders, of Flanders and Swann fame. Flanders and Swann Online – Lyrics sorted by Title. He died when she was 7.
The original Crystal Maze
I’m in Paris this evening, and have come home after dinner (I have an early train to Barcelona) to a bizarre but rather engaging French game show on France 2 called Fort Boyard. It’s a puzzles-and-physical-challenges show set in a real Napoleonic fort on a sandbank off the Normandy coast. Top that, Countdown!
It was, apparently, the original for the UK show the Crystal Maze, and I have to say it’s quite a bit better – as is perhaps shown by the fact that this is series 17!
The happiest place on earth
The BBC reports that Brightonians are th happiest and most positive people in the UK.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
A famous essay from 1964, here.