I love my adventures, I love my trips,
the plane ticket in my hand
go and my horizons expand,
wandering without scripts.
 Yet there is always one thing I miss.
what a cruel deprivation,
my favourite publication,
the one most foreign kiosk simply dismiss.
Now I am paying London’s high rent,
and I got my healing prescription.
I renewed my subscription
and to my home is weekly sent!Â
What I am trying to say here is that I am extremely happy, because now I have a flat and because every Friday I receive the economist to my door. I love this magazine. It is THE SOURCE of information. I love the way they put forward facts, then analyze them and then make recommendations. And they are also funny as well.
I am so happy to be subscribed. In some countries it is virtually imposible to get it. In Ecuador, for instance, it is not sold anymore as the distributor went burst.
Read the economist, it will change your life for the better!
PS: I got some help for the rhymes from www.rhymezone.com
September 18th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
And they are also funny as well.
I’ve noticed the captions to the photos have been funny to the point of nasty recently - don’t know if I’ve only just picked up on it or if they’ve recently got a deeply amusing intern. Surprised to hear it’s not easy to get everywhere - but I suppose there’s a limit to even the most international of brands…
September 19th, 2006 at 5:48 am
Well, I have not noticed anything nasty, but some are brilliant. When discussing about Fidel’s Castro situation, there was a picture of a mural with Fidel Castro’s picture and the proregime slogan “Revolución o Muerte”, “Revolution or Death”.
The photo caption just read: “Or both?”
September 23rd, 2006 at 2:19 am
I can understand your joy! I am signing up today! It’s good to pay student prices :-).
September 24th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I think I got the ‘nasty’ thing from a recent one - it might have been from just before you (re?)started your subscription - about the pay gap between male and female scientists. It was illustrated with a stock photo of a man and a woman looking through a microscope, and the caption was something like ‘With this high powered microscope I can just about see your salary’.
Wish I was still paying student prices -isn’t it something like 60% off?