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With the snow encroaching on London in recent days, I have resorted to wearing my bumblebee scarf, with the result that I resemble a cross between one of the Bash Street Kids and Tom Baker. It was thus attired that I trotted off to treat Lava Lamp to a spot of Russian lunch: hearty borsch and a lovely shashlyk (plus a cheeky vodka to ward off the chill)...

And once again, this week has offered scant opportunity for serious webbage, so the pickings are a little thin...

I was pleased to note two stories of a mammary nature in recent days. First up, the Italian doctor who has discovered that norks talk. When I forwarded this to my brother, he responded "Of course it would be an Italian doctor", but to be frank, his xenophobic tendencies would make a Daily Mail reader blush. Nonetheless, who could complain about a piece of harmless Thai breast massage? Quite a lot of people it seems... While we're on the subject of contortion, this piece of proto-Slavic promotional guff is a prime example of how not to "massage" the English language. The scientific revelations it contains may also be questionable, as I'm sure Dr Rufus will only be too pleased to point out.

Most inappropriate headline of the week has to go to the Beeb for Aberdeen teacher in pupil probe, especially given the sensitive subject matter of the article. I realise in the past I may justly have been accused of excessive pendantry and prurience, but surely others can see that the use of "probe" in this context is highly inappropriate.

And, erm, "cool stuff" - that thing the interweb does rather well? Excuse me if this is all rather vieux chapeau, but I liked the following this week:
PostSecret - a repository for anonymous admissions of siful deeds; Road Kill Candy - got to get some of that before they take it off the shelves; another reworked tube map - this one's peppered with smut and obscenity; Post-it pixellation as super-geeks recreate 8-bit Super Mario characters; and HST's fitting end - to be broadcast into the air...

To revive an old feature, here are some of the various search terms which have found this site - the usual mixture of predictability, bizarreness and unfathomable nonsense:

  • "timewaster letters" "weblog"
  • brezhnev honecker kiss
  • desperate housewives and "opening titles"
  • "milanese biscuits"
  • blogspot "cum in your mouth"
  • lyrics to vecherinka
  • pizda domain:devukha.blogspot.com
  • webmong
  • "timewaster letters" weblog
  • "franzie boys"
  • john betjeman "how to get on in society"
  • explanations of Feste's songs in Twelfth Night

And finally... a big shout out to David-Ell, who found this site through my links to Melmoth.