Subtleties...

We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is
deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.
-- James E. Day, Postmaster General
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Piada e...punição??

Do fortune:
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Some of the most interesting documents from Sweden's middle ages are the
old county laws (well, we never had counties but it's the nearest equivalent
I can find for "landskap"). These laws were written down sometime in the
13th century, but date back even down into Viking times. The oldest one is
the Vastgota law which clearly has pagan influences, thinly covered with some
Christian stuff. In this law, we find a page about "lekare", which is the
Old Norse word for a performing artist, actor/jester/musician etc. Here is
an approximate translation, where I have written "artist" as equivalent of
"lekare".
"If an artist is beaten, none shall pay fines for it. If an artist
is wounded, one such who goes with hurdie-gurdie or travels with
fiddle or drum, then the people shall take a wild heifer and bring
it out on the hillside. Then they shall shave off all hair from the
heifer's tail, and grease the tail. Then the artist shall be given
newly greased shoes. Then he shall take hold of the heifer's tail,
and a man shall strike it with a sharp whip. If he can hold her, he
shall have the animal. If he cannot hold her, he shall endure what
he received, shame and wounds."

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:-)

Propopéia flácida para acalentar bovinos - na língua de vossa majestade - Parte II

-- Neophyte's serendipity.
-- Exclusive dedication to necessitious chores without interludes of
hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow.
-- A revolving concretion of earthy or mineral matter accumulates no
congeries of small, green bryophytic plant.
-- The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the
optimal cachinnation.
-- Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential
escallation of a lucrative nature.
-- Missiles of ligneous or osteal consistency have the potential of
fracturing osseous structure, but appellations will eternally
remain innocuous.
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Propopéia flácida para acalentar bovinos - na língua de vossa majestade

Frases interessantes, na língua de Shakespeare:
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-- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

-- When there are visible vapors having the prevenience in ignited
carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

-- Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

-- A plethora of individuals wither expertise in culinary techniques vitiated
the potable concoction produced by steeping certain coupestibles.

-- Eleemosynary deeds have their initial incidence intramurally.

-- Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.

-- Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be well
advised to refrain from catapulting projectiles.
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Sensacional. :)