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POPSOlympic stars struggle to score showbiz gold "And Phelps could fade even within the Olympics, which still has another week left after the athlete kicks through his last breaststroke Saturday. "There's no question that Michael is an important driver of interest in the Olympics," NBC research chief Alan Wurtzel said. "But the Olympics turn out to be more than Michael Phelps."
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POPSHope This Will Make You Smile Another funny forward... this one has a message. "Shit Can and will Happen?" Let us hope the shit we've been tossed for almost 8 years will finally come to an end. I don't know how much more of this "frequently used word", we can take. Please no more shit! Here the song at: http://www.thethinkingblue.com/SHIT.html
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POPSQUIZ: What American Accent Do You Have? If you think you don't have an accent, think again. This short quiz is a way to find out which dialect of American English you speak. Different regional accents become more prevalent in countries at different times throughout the years for various socio-economic and geographical reasons. These accents come to be perceived as "neutral" or "accent-less" by the majority during these times. For a while, the American dialect sometimes called "Standard Midwestern" has dominated but, like accents themselves, this "standard" constantly evolves. Recently, the spoken aspects of American English have trended westward along with the population center of America. Many features distinct to Northeastern accents (think NYC, Boston) are being replaced in popularity with those from Western accents (think LA) across America. This shift tends to be more prominent the younger the speaker is.
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POPSLiterary Classics: Travel and Adventure Without Leaving Home The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton This one is sharp and witty, with a great story and brilliant psychological insight into what it means to be a woman in a consumer culture—which is something that hasn't changed all that much since Wharton's day. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini A startling work of self-justification and score settling, this autobiography has all the action and romance you'd find in a gripping historical novel. Renaissance artist, friend of Michelangelo, favorite of popes, and rival to cardinals, Cellini was also a street fighter, a philanderer, an egoist, and quite possibly a murderer. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy This is a big sweeping novel about a lot of very important things, like social class, politics, and agriculture. But it's also a great, compelling romance. Just don't read it on a train. You'll have to read it to find out why.
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POPSTerror Cell Convicted More bad guys brought to trial... This is inexcusable though..."fhe grandson of the head of a sharia court in Dewsbury" A SHARIA COURT in London? The English are almost beyond salvage...
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POPSBayerische Staatsbibliothek: Lateinische Handschriften - Collection of Latin Manuscripts Die erste Ablichtung zeigt einen Ausschnitt aus der Briefsammlung des Mönchs Wernher, Kloster Tegernsee, etwa aus dem Jahre 1170. The first image shows a part of a Latin love letter (contained in the collection of Wernher the Monk, circa 1170) with the Middle High German verse Dû bist mîn, ih bin dîn: des solt dû gewis sîn. dû bist beslozzen in mînem herzen: verlorn ist daz slüzzelîn: dû muost immer drinne sîn. English: You are mine, I am yours Of that you may be sure Deep within my heart You're safely locked away But I have lost the key And there you'll ever stay ] (Mehr darüber in JoHammonia's Scratchbook .)
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POPSHave Conservative principals permeated North? With this level of impropriety suggested at Conservative HQ, how can the electorate of this region be reassured that the local party is free of such graft? Do local treasurers have the power to rein in over enthusiastic local politicians? Everyone can see that London Labour is so corrupt that their leading treasury personnel have no control over Labour finances. Labour Ministers flaunt their disregard for ethics whilst their spouses deny every single misdeeds of their partners. There is one ancient English metaphor...shit stinks!!! It is perfuming over both the major parties with equal stench.
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POPSLanguage no barrier to counting It never occurred to me that if you didn't have a word for a number, you couldn't count. Sounds like English teachers trying to muscle in on the maths crowd. I thought we used words for numbers so we could tell someone how many there are when we run out of fingers. (and toes). Perhaps some people associate numbers with words, some with pictures, perhaps even with a particular sound. Same numbers, different parts of the brain processing. Sometimes you can tell how many there are by the look on someone's face.
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POPSWHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, “If you were my husband I’d give you poison.” He said, “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
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POPSA New Era for Kurdish Literature This sounds like a very interesting novel that explores the conflicting interests of politicians and novelists. The author, Bakhtyar Ali, hopes that this novel will herald the end of the subordination of Kurdish writers to politicians. I hope this novel will soon be translated into English and thereby gain a wider readership.
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