“Hoi’ve got a lo-ve-ly bunch o’ coconuts, there they are a-standin’ in a row: big ones, small ones, some as big as yer ‘ead! Give ‘em a twist, a flick o’ the wrist,” that’s what the showman said;

Innocent Dutch retailer welcome page?  
 
Or was someone enjoying reruns of Monty Python’s Flying Circus? 
You decide.

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We were, we were just wasting time, let the hours roll by, doing nothing for the fun;

Because the love of fonts starts early:
 

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You can force it but it will stay stone, you can crush it as dry as a bone. You can walk it home straight from school, you can kiss it, you can break all the rules, but still everything is broken, everyone is broken. Why can’t you forget?

            During a particularly random Wikipedia spiral, I stumbled across the story of Best Products, the “catalog showroom” retailer that competed with Service Merchandise and went out of business in the late 90’s.  Growing up the store meant little to me other than having to go there so my parents could buy some mundane item [...]

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As I was a-ramble down by the water I spied in sable the landlord’s daughter. I produced my pistol, then my saber, said: “Make no whistle or thou will be murdered!” She cursed, she shivered, she cried for mercy: “My gold and silver if thou will release me!” “I’ll take no gold, miss. I’ll take no silver. But I’ll take those sweet lips and thou will deliver!”

Usually when Carolina Herrera presents her collections, I’m in awe of the craftsmanship and the simple elegance of her aesthetic, but I’m never overwhelmed by any whimsy or fanciful notions from her–season after season, she generally presents gorgeous clothes in some wild prints, but nothing that would veer towards the true avant-garde.
 That is, until her [...]

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Come join the youth and beauty brigade;

The most interesting email appeared in my inbox this morning: 

I must say, I give them a lot of credit for not only wearing their politics on their sleeve, but to be at least somewhat fairly balanced with regards to both parties.
Happy Super-Ginormous-Fat-Fasnaught-Tsunami Tuesday everyone! 

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Le soleil est près de moi;

            Michael and I like to joke that the residents in our section of New Haven like to pretend that they are living in a small, cosmopolitan European city (Michael thinks Copenhagen; I’m more inclined to think a small Northern Italian city like Turin) rather than in New England, given the sheer number of people [...]

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