yet another clause running amock

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jun 13 18:49:11 UTC 2013


More for the files:

http://goo.gl/myIsD
> Despite already being legalized, and despite the first weddings taking
> place, French opponents of gay marriage are planning to use the
> "global visibility" of the Tour de France to publicize their fight, it
> was announced on Wednesday.

Maybe it's just a bad translation from French.

     VS-)


On 6/3/2013 4:47 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
> From ESPN.co.uk <http://ESPN.co.uk> front page (caption under the
> photo of Rafael Nadal with a big yellow tennis-themed cake):
>
> > After beating Kei Nishikori, French Open organisers surprised - or
> perhaps embarrassed - Rafa Nadal with a birthday cake
>
> The "organizers", of course, did not beat Kei Nishikori--Nadal did.
>
> VS-)

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