Stet » ad http://riabacon.com First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:41:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc What does not kill me, makes me stronger http://riabacon.com/2008/11/24/what-does-not-kill-me-makes-me-stronger/ http://riabacon.com/2008/11/24/what-does-not-kill-me-makes-me-stronger/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:21:45 +0000 Ria
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http://riabacon.com/?p=365 After spending a few days in the north of Senegal, I returned to Dakar to find one of my sites had been hacked. Each page of my photoblog, Ria Galleria, had a long list of ads and links above my own photo posts. The ads were all related to travel, which is preferable to zoophilia, although

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]]> http://riabacon.com/2008/11/24/what-does-not-kill-me-makes-me-stronger/feed/ 2 Postlapsarian PNP: After the fall from grace http://riabacon.com/2007/09/28/postlapsarian-pnp-after-the-fall-from-grace/ http://riabacon.com/2007/09/28/postlapsarian-pnp-after-the-fall-from-grace/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:04:25 +0000 Ria portia simpson miller bruce golding pnp jlp jamaica jamaican election elections anagrams boring cudgel donald buchanan minister of information postlapsarian anagrammatical http://riabacon.com/2007/09/28/postlapsarian-pnp-after-the-fall-from-grace/ The recent general election in Jamaica was a close run between the People’s National Party, in power for 18 years, and the Jamaica Labour Party. While at least one of the sixty seats remains to be decided by the courts, the JLP still managed to squeeze past the incumbents with a four-seat majority.

Politically motivated violence had

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]]> http://riabacon.com/2006/12/15/gone-crazy-gone-mad/feed/ 4 Chinglish crassics http://riabacon.com/2006/10/04/chinglish-crassics/ http://riabacon.com/2006/10/04/chinglish-crassics/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:15:50 +0000 Ria editor yoga fitness chinglish bad english RAV4 vomitting adpot allident http://riabacon.com/2006/10/04/chinglish-crassics/ As an editor, it was all I could do to stop myself from leaping out and attacking this car in front of me with my red pen.

To calm myself down, I thought I’d do some breathing exercises when I got home. But I hadn’t counted on the instruction leaflet that came with the yoga mat:

Train the

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]]> http://riabacon.com/2006/10/04/chinglish-crassics/feed/ 6 How low can you go? http://riabacon.com/2006/05/09/how-low-can-you-go/ http://riabacon.com/2006/05/09/how-low-can-you-go/#comments Tue, 09 May 2006 17:31:18 +0000 Ria record progression blades 100m faster blade asafa fusion absurd world http://riabacon.com/2006/05/09/how-low-can-you-go/ Last Saturday, the fastest sprinter in the world, Jamaican Asafa Powell, beat all-comers at the Jamaica International Invitational meeting in Kingston. Even so, he had wanted to go even faster and blamed the starter for making them wait too long, claiming that “It was the worst start I have ever got in my life so far.”

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Can anyone enlighten me or should I call them?

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]]> http://riabacon.com/2006/04/11/teenage-cockroaches/feed/ 5 Kingston contrasts http://riabacon.com/2006/01/09/kingston-contrasts/ http://riabacon.com/2006/01/09/kingston-contrasts/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:28:26 +0000 Ria
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http://riabacon.com/?p=201 The secret of a good joke is incongruity, the familiar placed in an unfamiliar setting, either with sharp contrast or through the shock of the unexpected. Likewise, many of my favourite photos are centred on the incongruous, usually when something piques my warped sense of humour (see an extreme example here).

In a country like Jamaica, where

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]]> http://riabacon.com/2006/01/09/kingston-contrasts/feed/ 4 All I want from Santa http://riabacon.com/2005/12/16/all-i-want-from-santa/ http://riabacon.com/2005/12/16/all-i-want-from-santa/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:39:28 +0000 Ria
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http://riabacon.com/?p=196 A long infomercial in yesterday’s Gleaner newspaper began with the following photo and headline:

The best part was the following text:

All members of the response team are well trained in firearm handling, tactical shooting, and covert action and customer relations.

Imaginary dialogue: BLAM!! BLAM!!!

Tanks fe de glass a ice wata, mam.

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Below is a summary of the main points raised at the abovementioned meeting.

Attendance:P. Collina (Chair)E. CoriniG. BuffonC. VieriF. TottiM. D’Agata (rapporteur)

1. Regarding reactions and results of the recent Telecom Italia campaign, Mr Collina reported that sales of cable had experienced a positive boost but that actual new subscriptions to Telecom’s Internet service had been disappointing. The

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A Reuter’s report of yesterday: Feel like a cup of tea, but don’t have the time to brew one up? Pop a “tea pill” instead.

Why would I do that? Isn’t the whole point about tea that you actually take the time to make it then blow and sip it slowly, sit back and relax for

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