Stet » shopping 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 Blue and yellow http://riabacon.com/2010/01/25/blue-and-yellow/ http://riabacon.com/2010/01/25/blue-and-yellow/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:49:56 +0000 Ria yellow ikea blue allen lyrics hands visit dope http://riabacon.com/?p=524 Back to work on Monday after an exhausting IKEA weekend: long trip to the mainland on Saturday, then six hours shuffling round the blue and yellow megabox, sustained only by Swedish meatballs and a family-size bag of Daims; Sunday busy with the allen keys, baffled by pictogram instructions simplified for our 23-language community.

What did we

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http://riabacon.com/?p=380 Today is the most important national holiday in Senegal, Tabaski, the Wolof word for the Festival of the Sheep, known elsewhere in the Muslim world as Aïd-el-Kebir. It is a celebration of an event that is also important to Jews and Christians, that is, the sacrifice by Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic) of his eldest son. If

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Future Walmart customers (Runaway Bay, 21 April 2006)

Dem demographic an’ focus group dem hit de nail to rass!

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http://riabacon.com/?p=226 Shopping from the comfort of your car in uptown Kingston.

Although the resolution is too low to read here, I’ve changed the licence plate to [BUSHA 2].

For an explanation of the title Busha, read the following extract from Anthony C. Winkler’s hilarious novel, The Lunatic.

The Busha was the richest man in the parish. His land splashed over

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Extract from an ever-growing list of binnable items.

# 2 buggies (prams/strollers/whatever), one very soiled stained (ice cream, Giolitti’s)# 2 single mattresses, one slightly stained (coffee?)# 3 giant inflatables (orca, turtle and mutant dragonfly), suspected slow punctures# Comprehensive software collection (statistics, Web design and games) for Win95# 1 truckload of Kinder egg toys, with instructions

… to be

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Having cleared out my wardrobe of winter clothes, there were gaping spaces just crying out to be filled, so we went shopping. Here’s what I picked up.

In Benetton, I had to wait for 90 minutes to pay for a summer dress for my daughter. There was no queue, but there was no one to take my

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If you’re in Birmingham, UK, this Sunday, why not try … competitive eating?

Gag me with a spoon!

Check out the “Bib sheet” of champion speed eater Sonya Thomas.

“I can eat anything I want and never seem to gain a pound!” she giggles.

Word of the day: bulimia

!@#$%^&*()_+

I had an orgiastic 36 hours in Paris last weekend and spent

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Rome is not as cosmopolitan a city as London or Paris, and almost the only obviously non-Italians in public view are windscreen cleaners, newspaper sellers and informal Prada sales reps, ever ready to scoop up their street wares in a sheet and leg it when the lookout signals police approaching. Yet Italy is the main gateway

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