RIP Terry Jones

Isto é que vai uma crise :)

Devido à crise ....
Os padeiros não têm massa
Os padres já não comem como abades
Os relojoeiros andam com a barriga a dar horas
Os talhantes estão feitos ao bife
Os criadores de galinhas estão depenados
Os pescadores andam a ver navios
Os vendedores de carapau estão tesos
Os vendedores de caranguejo vêem a vida a andar para trás.
Os desinfestadores estão piores que uma barata
Os fabricantes de cerveja perderam o seu ar imperial
Os cabeleireiros arrancam os cabelos
Os futebolistas baixam a bolinha
Os jardineiros engolem sapos
Os cardiologistas estão num aperto
Os coveiros vivem pela hora da morte
Os sapateiros estão com a pedra no sapato
As sapatarias não conseguem descalçar a bota
Os sinaleiros estão de mãos a abanar
Os golfistas não batem bem da bola
Os fabricantes de fios estão de mãos atadas
Os coxos já não vivem com uma perna às costas
Os cavaleiros perdem as estribeiras
Os pedreiros trepam pelas paredes
Os alfaiates viram as casacas
Os almocreves prendem o burro
Os pianistas batem na mesma tecla
Os pastores procuram o bode expiatório
Os pintores carregam nas tintas
Os agricultores confundem alhos com bugalhos
Os lenhadores não dão galho
Os domadores andam maus como as cobras
As costureiras não acertam as agulhas
Os barbeiros têm as barbas de molho
Os aviadores caem das nuvens
Os bebés choram sobre o leite derramado
Os olivicultores andam com os azeites
Os oftalmologistas fazem vista grossa
Os veterinários protestam até que a vaca tussa
Os alveitares pensam na morte da bezerra
As cozinheiras não têm papas na língua
Os trefiladores vão aos arames
Os sobrinhos andam "Ó tio, ó tio"
Os elefantes andam de trombas...
SÓ OS POETAS CONTINUAM COMO SEMPRE: TESOS MAS MARAVILHOSOS!

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Universo Humano, para começar bem 2020 :)

Rebracketing, from Starkey Comics

How Africa got its name - from Strange Maps at Big Think

• Libya is an ancient Greek toponym for the lands between the Nile and the Atlantic Ocean, and sometimes by extension for the entire continent. The name may derive from the local Libu tribe. Libya is also the name of the modern North African country between Tunisia and Egypt, formerly infamous for the violent surrealism of Colonel Ghadaffi's decades-long dictatorship and currently for its lawlessness and low-intensity civil war.

• Ethiopia derives from the classical Greek for "burnt-face" (possibly in contrast to the lighter-skinned inhabitants of Libya). It first appears in Homer's Iliad and was used by the historian Herodotus to denote those areas of Africa south of the Sahara part of the "Ecumene" (i.e. the inhabitable world). But the Greek term originally applied to Nubia (a.k.a. Kush). Later, it was adopted by the kingdom of Axum, a distant precursor to present-day Ethiopia.
• In 148 BCE, the Romans established the province of Africa Proconsularis, which covered most of present-day Tunisia and adjoining coastal bits of Algeria and Libya. The etymology is uncertain: "Africa" might mean "sunny," "birthplace," "cave-dwelling," or "rainwind;" refer to the ancient Afri tribe, the biblical port of Ophir, a grandson of Abraham named Epher, or a Himyarite king named Afrikin. Over time, perhaps because of its solid Roman pedigree, "Africa" became (European) cartographers' preferred term for the entire continent. 

 

• Bilad as-Sudaan is Arabic for "Land of Black People." Once referring to all of sub-Saharan Africa, the name latterly applied to the savannah belt running south of the Sahara from the Atlantic to the edge of the country that came in the British sphere of influence in 1899 as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Following a successful referendum, South Sudan seceded from Sudan in 2011. The other country outlined here is Mali, which until independence was known as French Soudan.

• Guiné was the Portuguese geographical term for West Africa. Its zone of application covers two of the three African countries named after it: Guinea (the larger country in the west) and Equatorial Guinea (in the east). Guinea Bissau, the smaller neighbor of Guinea, falls just outside the ancient domain of Guiné. A fourth country, Papua New Guinea, just north of Australia, was named after the region by Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez. In 1545, he first used the term "New Guinea" because of the similarities in appearance between the natives of both regions.

• Maghreb is Arabic for "sunset." In some definitions, the wider region of this name includes Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania. A narrower definition (the one current in France, for example) only encompasses Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The narrowest definition is Maghreb al-Aqsa, "the Furthest Sunset," i.e. Morocco. 

• Mauretania was the portion of the Maghreb the Berber inhabitants of which were known to the Romans as Mauri. The local kingdoms became vassals of Rome and were later annexed. The current Islamic Republic of Mauritania derives its name from ancient Mauretania but shares no territory and little else with its nominal predecessor.
• "Ghana" means "warrior king," a title conferred to the kings of the so-called Ghana Empire (it called itself "Wagadou"), which existed from around 700 to 1240 CE in an area covering parts of the modern states of Mauritania and Mali. There is no overlap with the modern country – the British colony of the Gold Coast adopted the name upon gaining independence in 1957. 
• Benin City, now in Nigeria, was the capital of the old kingdom of Benin. The modern kingdom of Benin, formerly the French colony of Dahomey, is located a few hundred miles to the west. 

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