July 2007
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(16th July 2007)
Years ago, in my first year at university studying French and Italian, we had some set texts. One of them was Paul Éluard. I had no patience for surrealist poetry then - and not much now - and one of my most hated lines was "La terre est bleue comme une orange," or "The earth is blue like an orange." Obviously. At the time, ...
(6th July 2007)
A list of words used to describe the widespread phenomenon of there always being more mens' toilets than women's, and therefore there is always a queue at the women's, because women take longer:
urinequity
sheturnity
pee-gatory
herturnity
peenury
pees and queues
men-no-pause
girliqueue
cannery row
sitscrepancy
stalltification
canaraderie
loodicracy
incontinental divide
whoa de toilette
impeetience
fillybuster
lass rites
stand-up commodey
male pee-rogative
loonacy
women's sufferage
sit down's syndrome
no stallgia
waterwait
express male
menvy
male chauvi-whizm
short seatedness
stall waiting
assault and bladdery
underprivyleged.


