Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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Another post about an interesting translator: Michael S. Rosenwald at the
NY Times reports that “Shuntaro Tanikawa, Popular Poet and Translator of
‘Peanuts...
5 hours ago
... and other delicious recipes
A man should swallow a toad every morning to be certain of not encountering anything more disgusting in the course of the day. Nicholas de Chamfort
hahaha! very funny.
ReplyDeleteHugh knew?
ReplyDeleteall gnus to me, sugar! xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteHas Hugh expressed a personal preference for loose or bag tea?
ReplyDeleteAnd the human person told him that it’s gnood and gnutritional.
ReplyDeleteAnd so it’s gnood gnight to gnoo from me.
Great post. Thanks.
All the best, Boonie
Hugh for PM
ReplyDeleteSeconding French Fancy's proposition.
ReplyDeleteShow of hoofs?
Hoofs up over here
ReplyDeleteOh my gnuoodness!
ReplyDeleteSx
Does he dunk?
ReplyDeleteUgh ... humans make *terrible* interview subjects.
ReplyDeleteThank heavens people are still drinking and talking about tea back in The Old County, even if it's only with a gnu!
ReplyDeleteHugh certainly looks like the unflappable type. Am I right? Is he a rock?
ReplyDeleteI can't help but here 'Gnu, Gnu' to Denis by Blondie.
ReplyDelete'Oh Gnu, doobydoo...'
moreidlethoughts - glad you like it
ReplyDeleteWill, Sav, Boonie, Scarlet - will we ever run out of gnu puns? Keep 'em coming
xl - he is perplexed by both
French Fancy, Nursey and Mrs Fly
He's registered for the next elections.
MJ - no he thinks dunking is crumby
red humans make *terrible* interview subjects
I know
Gadj - feeling a tad homesick?
Marky - Hugh is a rock indeed
Glory - Oh no you've set up an earworm....
He can come to see me any time. I can spout on about anything.
ReplyDeleteTeas' the thing, it looks like Hugh's got british human life covered.
ReplyDeletePresumably quaffing Ty-Phoo?
ReplyDeletehttp://forums.doyouremember.co.uk/threads/6981-Typhoo-s-Gnu
Maybe they were talking about the financial decline of the tea industry in Darjeeling… Those news paper pages look rather intellectual ;-)
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