**The Forum may be over, but Barcelona is still good value for money in terms of entertainment. The big draw now is Svend Aage Bek, a Dane who claims his son's firm has been royally screwed by Spanish lollipop makers Chupa Chups, and is carrying on a campaign to shame them into payment. I wish him lots of luck, but fear he is labouring under a misconception: Spanish businessmen are not known for their sense of shame. Read more.

*"Chupa Chups" is a nonsense phrase that could loosely be translated as "slurpity-slurp" or, as the Guardian prefers, "Sucky sucks." I think my version is more onomatopoeic, but the Guardian's fits better with the title to this article, which means "Chupa Chups, suck this." Just so you don't think I am pretending to be particularly objective here.
**This photograph is copyright © John Pawlenko and BarcaBlog. Used by kind permission.

Posted by : John Ross on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 08:48 AM 2659 reads