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No Café com Verso, em Gonçalves - MG, Wi-Fi mineirinho, uai!

Bem que eu desconfiava...

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Senso de Humor

Costumo checar frequentemente o site da Wikipedia e seu destaque diário. Hoje, tive uma grata surpresa pois o artigo do dia é hilariante: o Museum of Bad Art (MOBA). Vale a pena dar uma lida no verbete aqui.

Too bad good to be ignored!

Ótima!

Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Comercial da Berlitz Alemã

English is Tough Stuff

Dearest creature in creation
Study English pronunciation
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye you dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words and plaque and argue.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should or would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
and then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem very little,
we say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Does not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation - think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you loose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wright,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough?
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!


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Reflexos do Ensino

Uau! Adorei!

Lost in Translation

Esse é um site curioso. Você entra com uma frase em inglês e, após várias traduções online, o resultado é hilariante. Por exemplo, pedi a tradução de "no alarms and no surprises, please" e recebi o seguinte resultado: "aucunes the strange receipts requested you are aucunes e, requests". Hehehe...

O que ele está pintando?

Esse cara é bom! Você acha que o desenho é só um monte de rabiscos até que...

Dad at Comedy Barn

O velhinho é o show!
O Elder vai falar que esse também é um clássico. Fazer o que, né? Mas eu não aguento os caras rachando o bico!

Porque a fofura é relativa...

Vida Besta

Achado aqui.

Língua difícil

Tem aquele vídeo da mulher tentando falar www.youtube, lembra? Vamos desculpá-la porque ela tinha que falar em inglês e tudo mais... Mas esse nó-cego tinha que falar em português mesmo... É inacreditável!

Ah, bom...

Eu sabia que devia ter um motivo...

E no, no no se esqueça disso, Babalu!

Ao jogar o último Flash Pops, acabei achando esse site que é uma coletânea de lembranças, programas e desenhos dos anos 60, 70 e 80. Muito engraçado encontrar por lá coisas que nem lembrava mais que existiam. Duvido que o cara tenha se esquecido de algo.

Yippee!

Bom fim de semana prá todos.

Ora, ora...

Eu quero essa maquiagem!

Big Ad for Carlton Draught

Teste de cores

Achei um site com um teste de personalidade bem legal. É o ColorQuiz. Você faz em 5 minutos e o resultado é bem interessante. Vale tentar.

Mika - Grace Kelly

Conheci essa música pelo Gui. E achei ótima (e minha criança interior amou!). O clipe não é nada de mais mas a música é tão linda e prá cima que é impossível não gostar. Divirtam-se.
E vai aí a letra também:

Do I attract you?
Do I repulse you with my queasy smile?
Am I too dirty?
Am I too flirty?
Do I like what you like?

I could be wholesome
I could be loathsome
I guess I'm a little bit shy
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me without making me try?

I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
I've gone identity mad!

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you walk out the door!

How can I help it
How can I help it
How can I help what you think?
Hello my baby
Hello my baby
Putting my life on the brink
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like me
Why don't you like yourself?
Should I bend over?
Should I look older just to be put on your shelf?

I try to be like Grace Kelly
But all her looks were too sad
So I try a little Freddie
I've gone identity mad!

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Walk out the door!

Say what you want to satisfy yourself
But you only want what everybody else says you should want

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me?
Why don't you like me?
Walk out the door!