20 years without the Berlin Wall...

Berlim, 20 anos depois

Não conheço cidade com tanta história contemporânea como Berlim.

Porta de Brandemburgo (Brandenburg Tor) e Pariser Platz

A minha primeira vez (e única, até hoje) que visitei Berlim foi assim um despertar de sentidos em todas as direcções. Foi duranteAbril de 2006, altura em que a cidade mais parecia um estaleiro, com incontáveis obras para o Campeonato Mundial de Futebol, que se iniciaria daí a dois meses.

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Lê o resto em O Papagaio Daltónico.

A joke

The First 3 Years of Marriage
In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens.
In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens.
In the third year, they both speak and the neighbours listen.

ALONE

From childhood's hour
I have not been
As others were;
I have not seen
As others saw;
I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source
I have not taken
My sorrow;
I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

(Edgar Allan Poe)

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Boas explorações!

A joke

A: I'm in a big trouble!
B: Why is that?
A: I saw a mouse in my house!
B: Oh, well, all you need to do is use a trap.
A: I don't have one.
B: Well then, buy one.
A: Can't afford one.
B: I can give you mine if you want.
A: That sounds good.
B: All you need to do is just use some cheese in order to make the mouse come to the trap.
A: I don't have any cheese.
B: Okay then, take a piece of bread and put a bit of oil in it and put it in the trap.
A: I don't have oil.
B: Well, then put only a small piece of bread.
A: I don't have bread.
B: Then what is the mouse doing at your house?!

English Funny Sayings

FUNNY SAYINGS

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.


If I want to punish a woman, keep her on a room without any mirrors.


If you can't buy a thing with money, you can buy it with more money.


Everyone can keep their promises if they remember what they promise.


If the time goes so fast when you stay with a boy and so slowly when you are away from him, you should have your watch repaired.


Nuclear bomb is an invention to end other inventions.


Women love less talkative men because they think those men are listening to them.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

How about spending your next Summer holidays in a place like this?