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The EARTH without ART is EH.

Every time you make an error, errorists win.
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Woman without her man is nothing.

Silly placenames: welcome to Dull, twinned with Boring

A town or village with an embarrassing name has two options: they can change it or get in on the joke. This week there were examples of both. The latter was in Scotland, where the whimsical folk of the tiny village of Dull embraced silliness on a transatlantic scale by becoming the official sister community of the Oregon town of Boring. The former, less whimsically, in Austria, where the residents of a village named Fucking voted to change its name to Fugging, only to discover that another village also originally called Fucking had bagsied Fugging 100 years earlier.

Which, frankly, serves them right for refusing to stand proud. Not least because a daft or obscene name can bring much more to a place than sniggering strangers. Including business. Take, for example, the town of Tightwad in Missouri, named – according to local legend – after a particularly parsimonious greengrocer. Four years ago, local entrepreneurs founded Tightwad Bank, for "customers with a sense of humour", and brought in well over $1m in deposits.

Then there's the village of Muff in County Donegal where, in the late 80s, a local scuba enthusiast spotted a pun too filthy to miss and founded a diving society. Now, according to the club's website, Muff Diving Club is "one of the oldest and most successful diving clubs on the island of Ireland".

The mayor of Fucking argues that in their case the name just caused too much hassle. Villagers have complained about prank calls, couples going at it on the roadside and souvenir-hunting vandals regularly stealing their signposts. But there are other ways to deal with such problems. In Dorset, the residents of Shitterton have not only resisted attempts to switch to Sitterton but – after one too many signpost thefts – clubbed together to have the name engraved on a theft-proof tonne-and-a-half of rock.
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«A Red, Red Rose» by Robert Burns O my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Luve's like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune. As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run. And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve! And fare-thee-weel, a while! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!

Перевод Д.Тиме №1 Любовь моя – как пламя роз, что расцвели в июнь! Она – как сладостный мотив – без фальши в звуках струн! Сколь ты - вершина красоты, столь я в любви глубок, пока бег дней не превратит моря в сухой песок... Моря – в сухой песок, мой друг, гранит – под солнцем – в пыль! Пока считать песчинки дней у жизни хватит сил! До встречи же, Любовь моя! Опять на твой порог вернусь, хотя б пришлось пройти три тысячи дорог!

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Как роза красная цветёт
моя любовь к тебе!
Она, как сладостный аккорд,
звучит в моей судьбе!

Сколь ты колдунья - в красоте –

Хоть все моря ты осуши,

Не говорю тебе «прощай»!