:: Crying at the Discotheque... ::

...is the answer to my weekend lyrics challenge. By Swedish popsters, Alcazar, this ditty graced the dance floors of some of the cheesier London venues last year.

Although I promised the answer for Monday, I've been very busy at work and got told off by my boss for looking at websites (i.e. my blog) too much. However, I did have time to pay a sneaky visit to b3ta where I saw this piece of Disney rebranding:

Hmm... well in the absence of worktime surfing (and having no computer at home at the moment), I'd better regale you with some facts related to my projet du jour, Household Cleaning Products. To segue nicely from the Donald Duck thing, I ought to mention that Swedish for duck is anka. As Toilet Duck is a worldwide brand, we have to know what "duck" is in numerous languages... I was delighted to discover that some pretty strange brand names exist for washing up liquid too. Here are two: Barf apparently degreases the plates of many a Saudi Housewife (do you think they still have to wear a veil when washing up?); In South Korea, there's a brand called Pong - for that lemon-fresh fragrance... Another piece of vital information is that a cleaning products company in Venezuela is called Serviquim. That sounds a bit auto-cunnilingual to me...

And for all you ear-fetishists out there, I have a feast of links:
• To bring pleasure to you ears, download your own, personal Mini Elvis.
• If you hate Elvis, you might deliberately perforate you ear-drums after downloading that. then you could take part in Deaf Idol, and "maybe appear on See Hear"...
• I recently heard about this (yes, I know, stretching the ear metaphor a bit far...) show, but I don't have cable. The sad fall of a bastion of my youthful TV viewing.
•  I doubt this guy heard what was going on at his daughter's wedding. Maybe the rich silk coffin lining blocked his ears?
• Couldn't resist another b3ta pic. Clarse from Monkeon as usual:

Last of all, I must bring to your attention the recent explosion in interest in pikiness in al its forms. Here is another link to the underworld of Charvers, who inhabit England's north-eastern realms.