Someone -- who presumably wasn't happy about Sorloth's failure to pass to Haaland -- changed Sorloth's Wikipedia page to say that he plays for England. Change was made this evening.
X account of Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has been hacked and now promoting crypto.
I'm not on Twitter/X much anymore but gotta admit that the Habsburg-World Cup posts are fun if you're a history buff. "Who will take it on the chin" is a brilliant line.
Asteroid Semeniuk appears at centre of this time lapse sequence captured on the night of June 15-16. The white lines are tracks of Earth-orbiting satellites in the foreground.
Yes, such a beautiful place. I love all the fauna there -- deer, birds, snakes -- and the trees that are bent by the wind like a scene out of a Tom Thomson painting.
I posted this photo years ago but why not share it again because this lovely creature is a perfect sight on a beautiful Saturday morning. White-tailed deer, Killbear Provincial Park, Ontario.
I wasn't around when this was published in 1935 but it's a well-known classic. Sticks Nix Hick Pix (Variety)
When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray (New York Times)
Other fav' include: Old McDonnell has a plan. He eyes IOUs (The Economist)
Saw this on Facebook. Captain Haddock is given the lines from Charles Baudelaire's prose poem « Enivrez-vous » The original frames are from the Tintin album The Secret of the Unicorn (Le Secret de La Licorne).
Saw NASA photos from the Artemis lunar mission, so how could I not mash it up with this music. Music: Also sprach Zarathustra, Richard Strauss, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Photo: www.nasa.gov/image-detail...
Also, if you are fascinated by anglicisms in Quebec food vocabulary, allow me to introduce you to this eatery.
So in English, we get two new puns, good ones but unfortunately not as memorable as the original one. The prisoner, who is in chains, is so impressed by Caesar's triumph that he claps his hands. Two puns ensue.
Alas, this astounding pun was just too clever for translation. Caesar frees a red-haired prisoner. A bystander explains in French, "Il affranchit le rubicond." (Affranchir being the opposite of disenfranchise). It's a pun on "Il a franchi le Rubicon" (he's crossed the Rubicon)
Sometimes, the translation offers a distinct pun based on the same material. In French, the joke here builds on "pilum" (the Roman javelin) and claiming to be sick because one is "pâle" (pale). In English, the pun riffs off pilum and being sick with a pun on "bitter pilum"
So what did the English translators do? Not only did they allude to another famous speech, but the one they took was from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act III, scene II, when Mark Antony begins his oration with "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
The puns with historical references are also adjusted. In Astérix gladiateur, the village chief begins a speech by saying "Gaulois, Gauloises." I am sure this is an allusion to Charles De Gaulle, who used that phrasing in some of his more famous speeches.
Other times, the joke is slightly tweaked. In the same album, the spy Acidcloridrix has a code name, HCL. In English, HCL is hydrochloric acid and, instead he gets the snappier name Vitriolix (H2SO4, sulfuric acid, aka vitriolic acid).
The greatest fun when reading Asterix as an adult comes from the clever pun in the French original. I was curious how the English version translated them. Sometimes the same joke works in both languages, for eg. the allusion to Pascal's famous principle, Cogito, Ergo Sum (I think, therefore I am).
Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, and where he went, and who he met, the pain he suffered on the sea, and how he worked to save his life and bring his men back home.
Still, we rightly remember Apollo 8 for this image, the first time humans saw their planet from so far away.
Collins is most famous as the command module pilot who orbited the moon while his crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did the first lunar landing. Collins' first mission was Gemini 10 and the eye irritation happened while he did his first EVA. His autobiography is titled Carrying the Fire.
I just learned that the astronaut Michael Collins had the same dangerous situation during the 1966 Gemini 10 flight that @cmdr-hadfield.bsky.social experienced 35 years later during a space shuttle mission: eyes irritated during a spacewalk because of the anti-fog coating inside his helmet's visor.
Somethings don't change however. The Globe's China correspondents in the 1960s covered the case of Anthony Grey, a British journalist detained for 27 months in retaliation for the jailing of Chinese journalists in Hong Kong. It was a situation mirroring the later captivity of the "two Michaels."