Word: ganges
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...Ketchup is that its bouncy chorus--"Asereje ja de je de jebe tu de jebere seibunouva/Majavi an de buguni an de buididipi"--means the same thing in Spanish as in English: nothing. The words are a gibberish homage to the opening line of the first rap song, Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 hit Rapper's Delight. America's familiarity with the original incomprehensible lyrics--"I said a hip hop, the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop"--have fueled Ketchup's transatlantic voyage, while a simple six-step dance move has given it club...
...trademark, two thirds of the way through "Double Happiness" Tom takes an absurdly cruel beating at the hands of some thugs who seem to think he knows something he doesn't. Suddenly the context of everything shifts as Tom discovers all of his new friends belong to an extortion gang. But even this twist has nothing on the bizarre and totally unexpected ending. It is rare that a comic catches me completely off guard but "Double Happiness...
...madness here. TIME: So, how is the company doing? Byng: Well, we were predicting a turnover of $5.25 to $6 million. But Waterstone's in London sold 1,100 copies of Pi the day following the Booker announcement. More than Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang sold the day after his Booker. So the next couple of months ... TIME: Your wife's family helped you buy out the company. Now you two have recently separated. Will this affect the business? Byng: She's still a shareholder. She's not formally involved in the company...
...weeks alone would challenge even the most solid government. It begins this week with a key summit of European leaders in Brussels, where a top item on the agenda is the financing of the European Union's enlargement. The Netherlands has been the most aggressive of the so-called Gang of Four, pressing alongside Germany, Sweden and the U.K. for radical reform of subsidies in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). After the Germans and the British, the Dutch are the largest net contributors to the program. The government wants to make enlargement conditional on reform of cap, an idea that...
...with lots of really fun, funny, smart people. The first band I was in, though, was a nightmare. I guess it really just depends on the people involved—some people are darker, some more mature. Being in a band is like being in a family, or a gang, and that can be great but it can be claustrophobic at the same time...