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Hair affairs
From the site Strange Maps comes this record from Die Zeit of the popularity of awful puns in the names of German hairdressing salons. The most popular is ' Haarmonie '. The others uphold that unfortunate line about the missing Germanic funny bone: Haareszeiten puns on Jahreszei... Read more ...
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Following the diagram in Lisbon
In Lisbon I much enjoyed the metro system, which is full of art and something of which the city is clearly proud. Its diagram uses Metrolis, a custom font from The Foundry . The lines are called seagull, sunflower, caravelle and orient: they have over-fussy graphics that don't quite f... Read more ...
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Letters from Bethlehem
Up a narrow street in Belem, Lisbon, and just yards away from the hungry tourists queuing for their Pasteis de Nata (the custard tarts which are a Lisbon speciality) there is a chapel which re-opened as a gallery in September this year. Its outer wall has been transfomed by an a... Read more ...
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Blankets and blazons
Is it just me? I like old blanket labels. The design of some of these little scraps of silky cloth is fascinating. This 1950s blanket with its evocative label was brought by sea all the way from Australia over 40 years ago. Because she has a Physician chillproof blanket, the happy lady with... Read more ...
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The beast within?
A report in Pravda (of all reliable sources) says that centaurs were real . Researchers decided this because of the number of cave paintings depicting the chimeric creatures. The article states, in a somewhat old-fashioned translation, that: "Historical sources reveal that buggery was v... Read more ...
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