The Olympic Games will take place in Ladonia whenever someone is interested. We have two new sports to present:

Wife-hurling
(A proposal from the eternal minister of art & jump) After hearing about (which I was already familiar with (the wife carrying)) I think we can present a new sport in the Ladonia Olympic Games "Small wife hurling". This has of course following weight classes (mid-wife and "Big Wife"-hurling). And of course "Midwife hurling" which only makes it more interesting since midwifes could weigh anything... (pounds or kilos).

The eternal minister of dubious anthems has observed wife-hurling outside Ladonia:

A friend of mine's spouse is quite petite, and after the Auk Party last year I definitely saw a "small wife hurling" in the neighbors yard at 5am.....

Eternal Minister of Dubious Anthems Walter has seen "wife hurling" in practice. © James Hartman.

Candles to burn in both ends
This is a completely new game, to burn a candle in both ends as fast as possible, and hold the candle as long as you can. The idea of the game is to leave as little as possible as fast as possible. It was invented by the minister of River Ladon, Vassilis from Greece.

To burn one's candle in both ends. © James Hartman.

Almost forgotten is the Reaumur temperature scale. This has now become standard in Ladonia which gives us, among many other amusing things, a lower temperature number in the winter.

The Reaumur temperature scale is named after the French scientist Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur (1683-1757). He proposed his temperature scale, in1731. Reaumur divided the fundamental interval between the ice and steam points of water into 80 degrees, fixing the ice point at 0 Degrees and the steam point at 80 degrees. An elaborate temperature measuring device graduated in Reaumur can be seen at Speke Hall, Liverpool.

The eternal minister of art & jump has his special day on the 18th of July. All sorts of celebration can be made with jumps that day. Minister of Pipe-Smoking. Måns Nihlén tells us in a poetic way:

Waaaaaallllll.
Greetings Ladonian people.
To honour this day of jump I took of my
right leg and jumped up and down of pure
happiness, and fore a little moment it was
like hovering over the good earth.
Now I'll go back to the basement and
finish my latest pipe-project.

But the main attraction is, now doubt, Minister of Art & Jump himself, Fredrik Larsson who has made two jumps this summer:

The Minister of Art & Jump jumping in Ladonia

The Minister of Art & Jump jumping in Kalmar on the 28th of August

Lost socks is a general problem but neglected in most countries at least on a governmental level. Thus it is necessary to have a minister of lost socks and we can now proudly present Rachel from Wellington, New Zealand. She is good at rock climbing, martial arts, painting and can often be seen hanging out with her dog.

James Hartman has only one sock. Photo James Hartman

Mismatch Sock Day of July 21 is the day when you celebrate your lost socks and the necessary odd combinations that comes from such events.

Mismatch socks

Often I sits and I thinks, but mostly I just sits

More and celebrated poetry from Per Cod is to be found at http://iwvpa.net/codp/index.htm
Kosovo: http://iwvpa.net/codp/kosovo__.htm

2004-07-24-15:21

Ants provided me enough information about the coup plan in Malmo by the Ladonian Military "Intelligence" 6 mutinees, so I knew to be ready. I have had to weigh the situation carefully: On the one hand, successful coup in Malmö might give Ladonia a new power base in Sweden. But only if everything goes right, and I am not sure that with these Military "Intelligence" men this would be a result. On the other hand, my task is to protect innocent civilians. I decided to priorize the latter task.

From the morning I have been patrolling Stortorget outside of the City Hall. To keep a low profile, I have been pretending to have a picnic here, like many families are now on Saturday. I have been sucking ants and watched children playing. I talked to these children and asked if they know that after the Spiderman the next big hit will be the Ninjamen. And even better, this Saturday an advertisement tour of the Ninjamen will come to Malmö and they will take all kids at Stortorget to swim in the Water Palace Aq-va-kul. So all kids begged their parents that they can stay and go to Aq-va-kul with the Ninjamen. So when the mutinees arrived in their black clothes and commando caps, they were at once surrounded by a huge mass of kids asking to be taken to Aq-va-kul. I just saw them to be dragged away by the crowd. They know the crowd will call the police if their kids' expectations are not met. And after a day of play with so many kids the agents will be surely too exhausted to do anything but sleep.

The second part of the mutinees is planning an attack to the TV Station. So I need to be there now. I will report from there.

Anty

Chris Mansell Summer Pallas Athena Trollbinda is Ladonia Poeta Launderette.

And she composes:

(chorus) Put if off! Put if off! You could do it now...You could do it now, But why would you, if you can put it off!

"Tomorrow is another day" is something we've heard somebody say; It makes our poor hearts very gay and then we sing our lovely lay:

(chorus)

Bury ideas in persiflage; Hide your crap in our garage; Work is sadly a mirage, and in our hearts is written large:

(chorus)

Chris, Poeta Launderette

CAROLYN

Carolyn, Minister of Customizing and Gary

The Tower of the Winds was literally occupied by the Swedes.

The Swedish occupation

Our eternal minister of dubious anthems has sent this report:

At the end of August, I will be embarking on an intensive experiment in Deep Fun and Sleep Deprivation. Driving 2200 miles in two days through the scorching deserts of the American Southwest (which will be an improvement from our weather here in Texas), destination the Black Rock Desert, 127 miles north of Reno in the far northwest corner of Nevada. Ancillary experiments in the short and long-term effects exposure to irradiated dust from past nuclear tests on male genitalia while peeing on the side of the road will also be conducted (a pleasant unexpected finding during similar experiments two years ago revealed that if one pees on enough political signs for a certain Republican candidate for Nevada Attorney General, that candidate will lose).

Upon arrival on the playa of the Black Rock Desert, the primary experiment in Guiness tallboy consumption in low humidity, high temperature alkali prehistoric lakebeds will commence. Variables introduced into the experiment will include silly hats, large explosions, giant Tesla coil exposure, and even sillier hats. The subjects will be subjected to seditious radio broadcasts, and will even make some. It will be GOOD.

Eternal Minister of Dubious Anthems (soon to be dusty and smiling)

The Minister of the River Ladon in Arcadia, Sir Vassilios Roumeliotis, proudly presents it's River Patrol!

A special force in the Army of Keepers, with a power boat made especially for crabs. They will guard the river preventing possible enemy attacks.

A perfect way to celebrate my one year anniversary.

River Patrol Boat

And Sir Vassilios gives us also this speech to contemplate:

It is the speech of Xenofon Zolotas, a guy who has also been a prime minister of Greece. A speech, full of greek words, at the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus in 1957.

Kyrie,
I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Oecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and syntherized.

Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is charateristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis we have the dynamism to program therepeutic practices as a prophylacis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic.

I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to your Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Ampitctyony and the gastronomic symposia.

Ladonia is one of the most pre-emptive and fantastic art statements on the planet.

Yes....I said it.

Please...all Ministers...continue to express yourselves. This is art. LET'S GO!

Sir Phil, Minister of Positive Ideas for The Nations of the World

Minister Walter in dubious action

I wrote a song about that very subject several years ago:
Rwandan Blues (© 1997 lyrics--W. Ehresman; music--Scott Brannock/W. Ehresman)

Pass me the palm wine, the pombe, I need to get stoned; The soldiers are coming to drive me away from my home. The crops in the field aren't as high as they once were before; But having a little is better than having none at all.

My friend left last week, I don't think that I'll see him again-- your cameras can't be everywhere in this country I live in. When they take me off the path through the jungle where no one will see, where we do to each other what once only you did to me.

[chorus]
Tagati, I see your television;
Tagati, I see your special shoes;
Tagati, you've moved on to the next country;
Left me here singin' my Rwandan Blues.

[break]

I die where I fall in that clearing so far from my home; My neighbors die with me, but can't help from feelin' alone; There's rumors of conspiracy while animals pick at our bones; But even with a close-up, would you feel it was one of your own?

[solo]

[chorus twice]

* "tagati" is Swahili for "black magic"

In the absence of other Ladonian supported candidates for US presidency, let's nominate Phil the Rock for a candidate. At the moment let him be a candidate with a strong support of a Ladonian campaign ring, if the Cabinet in whole wants, he can of course become a campaign with official Ladonian support. Meddling in other countries' domestic politics and selection of leaders by the powerful countries is an ages long tradition that Ladonia should follow.

What a fine candidate we have! (Small minus is that as one of his image consults I cannot plan hair styles and clothing for Phil the Rock.) So let us all backing his nomination to start writing campaign speeches, produce advertisements etc. for his campaign. He is sure to win with our assistance.

I wiiill touch the heearrtz and mynd off Nascaar moms and soccccer dads to bring thim a troo messssahg off hope aggentzt the fowl lyes offf "

Vote for Phil the Rock, the stunning alternative to Mr Goofy and Mr Buffalo!

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