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Germans are upset that prices have appeared to go up during the transition from mark to euro:
They have even invented a new word, combining teuer — expensive — and euro, to make “teuro,” pronounced, TOY-ro…. When told inflation is down, Ingrid Ernst, a theater director, said emphatically: “This has nothing to do with inflation! Everything is just more expensive.”
An article on spammer Ronald Scelson, who epitomizes chickenboners: “he only made it through the eighth grade and worked his way out of a trailer park by teaching himself about computers”.
The Independent reports a composer is being sued for misappropriating silence, which has been copyrighted. His defense: “My silence is original silence, not a quotation from his silence.”