THE ORIGINS of SAGGY "DROOPY" PANTS...

... You know, the pants some boys wear these days, below the waist, or far below...
Their origin:
The style is believed to have started in prisons, where inmates are issued ill-fitting jumpsuits but no belts to prevent hangings and beatings. The look was popularized in gangster rap videos.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/22/ap/strange/main4034947.shtml

The Milgram experiment

This psychological experiment was conducted between 1961 and 1963 by 28-year-old Stanley Milgram, then a recent graduate with a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard's department of social relations.
It was conducted on Yale's campus. Learn more about it and discuss it in the comments.

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/milgram%2B/
video/x1f85l_presentation-de-lexperience-milgram_events

Boston Legal

Boston legal is a series broadcast in the U.S. Thanks to onegoodmove for the link.
http://www.boston-legal.org/
Here is an extract against the war in iraq. Aren't Americans incredible!

Here is about the series' main actor, James Spader, who won the Emmy award for best lead actor in 2007 for his role as the lead character in the show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Spader

Amazing instrument

http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/

LOANS...

And here's a 16th century song about paper money...

  Rags make paper
 Paper makes money
 Money makes banks
 Banks make loans
 Loans make beggars
 Beggars make rags!

http://jack.rusher.com/BookPathology.html

A nugget from one of my favourite site

You know, on the left column, my favourite sites... 

Among them, there is Wordsmith.org by Anu Garg

another word lover, another logophile ;-)

Anu, if you subscribe to his newsletter or visit his website,

gives you a new word each day with its definition, its origins and a quote or two containing that word.

But there's a bonus, the "cerise sur le gâteau", it's a quote, a random quote. 

Well, not so random.. Anu must be a wise man for the quotes he chooses are always full of wisdom.

I thought i'd send you today's "cherry quote". Translated into English by a famous Frenchman:

Having been unable to strengthen justice, 

we have justified strength.

Blaise Pascal. Mathematician and philosopher. 1623-1662

Peter Watkins

Here is Peter Watkins' website:
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/
in which you must particularly read this:
http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/part2_home.htm

Here is Peter Watkins' filmography:
The Forgotten Faces (1960),

Culloden (UK, 1964),

The War Game (UK, 1965).

Punishment Park (USA, 1970)

Edvard munch (Norway, 1973)

- The Journey (a global peace film, 1983-86)

The Freethinker (Sweden, 1992-94)

La Commune (France, 1999) -
Listen towards the end of this first extract about the difference between communication and "mass communication"... Indeed, "Mass communication" is NOT communication.

TOEIC

TEST OF ENGLISH FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION

http://www.fr.toeic.eu/
http://www.fr.toeic.eu/?gclid=CNCmw6af5JICFR8-ZwodAFNrcw
http://www.u-picardie.fr/CRL/toeic.htm

Quand passer le TOEIC à Reims:
https://www.fr.etseurope.org/store/advanced_search_result.php?os
Csid=6b205cdb6ac444108ea009d97630d99d&step=2&appointments_id=&test_types_id=
TOEICListeninga&test_city_id=
REIMS&dfrom=03%2F04%2F2008&dto=03%2F10%2F2008