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July 2007

→ Poetry
 (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.