Yes, it’s German asparagus time again. (Posted by request)

This, which lacks a couple of hyphens, was the museum night combined with anticipation of the World Cup. What I want to know is, did anything exciting happen with these balloons after I left? Two of them were going lightish. Very unfair to the ducks, though.

People were eating blue ice cream and Wiener with blue mustard near the castle. No-one was complaining about the pile of chairs erected over the Schöner Brunnen.

This term seems to have two meanings. See Der Neubauer Hunde-Knigge and Scheißtag. For doggerel and songs see www.hundekot.at. Or alternatively Confiserie Heindl.

Patently silly cites and links to a patent for a Receptacle Assembly for Receiving Canine Fecal Matter (with drawings) (via a comment in Metroblogging Vienna).

Meanwhile, in Fürth, not everyone is as lucky as I am to live in the same building as Hektor, the model for the latest Hundehäufchen leaflet.

Evan Schaeffer, in his Legal Underground, once explained how important he thinks it is for a lawyer to have a hobby.

Had he encountered Donald Ray Burger, of Houston, Texas?

Not just turtles and farewell to a Texas boot store, but Cherokees and outstanding store-bought blackberry jelly.

Thanks to kalebeul.

In What About Clients?, Dan Hull discusses and links legal weblogs outside the USA.

He starts with the West and Asia; Latin America, Africa and the Middle East are next. Most are in the English language. Some are new to me (but Austria is missing).

Princes Charles, William and Harry were on an ITV chat show recently. According to the BBC:

bq. The young princes also reveal “there is usually an argument over the remote” and that they watch reality TV shows including Pop Idol and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! – both presented by their interviewers.

CNN reports:

bq. Britain’s young Princes William and Harry are fans of “American Pop Idol” and “Friends” and argue with their father Prince Charles over the TV remote control, they have revealed in an interview.

I’m not sure if they really do watch ‘American Pop Idol’ or just the British equivalent. I suspect the latter.

But in the Rheinische Post (paper version, May 20) I read:

bq. Die britischen Prinzen William und Harry sind zumindest in punkto Fernsehgewohnheiten ganz normale Menschen: “Wir streiten uns um die Fernbedienung”, sagte William dem Senden ITV1. Die US-Serie “Friends” sei immer eine sichere Bank, ergänzte sein jüngerer Bruder. Auch Talentshows wie “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” lieben die Prinzen.