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Jul-25-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Lag time> As a lifer, I only know <old lag time>. I've been serving this sentence since the Great War. Nice chap, young Lawrence, despite his Turkish exploits. "Sometimes even Lawrence of Arabia must have to stand naked", as Bob sez. The young guys tell me that a drink named 'lager' is now popular out in the world. It's made out of <old lags and their socks> (some of us have actually got two -- a perk for pigeons). I darn mine every other June. |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Frogspawn News>
1. <Infans Tenax Ranae>, a version of <Frogspawn> in Latin, will soon be available to subscribers. There's also a Greek version, available in beta and epsilon formats. 2. Literary news: these books are recommended:
Under The Frog, by Tibor Fischer
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, by Tom Robbins
The Case of the Midwife Toad, by Arthur Koestler
Rendezvous With Rana, by Arthur C. Clarke
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Jul-25-07
 | | OhioChessFan: Dom, Dom, Dom, dooby doo wahhhhh. The King is in the building, for sure, and is stunned at the heavy traffic that "well known player" Piscopo is generating on his games page in my absence. I dial 411 on occasion.
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> What a coincidence, your Kingness -- Synchronicity City strikes again. Sometimes I think it's taken up residence chez Frogspawn. In this case I was just listening to Bob Dylan (The Jester sang for the King and Queen) singing about "Ohio and all those rebel rivers" and thinking "awwww, cute" -- and then suddenly there you are, life-sized. The secrets of this place are beyond me. I suspect there are secret tunnels in reality and wormholes in the garden. If the Dog shows we'll have a quorum and can declare war on, say, Battenburg. |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Joe> -- <a penance of three Aves>
So when the Last Trump sounds we'll all be divided into the Aves and the Ave-Nots? So Pappi Ratzinger says, and he's German so it must be true. |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> ... and I dial 00-353-1-555... etc. But I still don't know what 411 means in your neck of the woods. It's either a non-universal or it's something I never worked out how to use... Is it for detecting phone spam? A trick known only to the League of Brother Shamus? Accessing messages from self? Accessing messages from a Higher Power? Calling the cops? Fire? Ambulance? "Hi, my house is burning down!!" --
<"Thank you for calling 411, do you require police, fire or ambulance service? If police, press 1. If fire, press 2. If ambulance, press 3. If you'd like to hear the options again, press 5. If just bored, press six and duck. If you're dead, you have the wrong number, please contact the department of notifications of deceasement. I'm sorry, but I'm not permitted to give you their number. Failure to comply can lead to conviction, fines and imprisonment. Thank you for dialling and please call again soon."> And they wonder why the (reported) crime rate drops. |
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| Jul-25-07 | | JoeWms: In this post I am stepping on Ohio's thread. O hi, O hi, Ohio. Nice to have you in our world again. Dom, 411 is Information. For just a few shekels 411 will find a telephone number for you. Anywhere in the world. (I can remember when the service was free: I'd call Information whenever I felt lonely.) Here's a BTW about 911, our Emergency number: Parents were instructed to teach their pre-schoolers to poke in nine-one-one, not nine-eleven, because the kids don't know yet what an eleven looks like. |
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Jul-25-07
| | Domdaniel: Thanks, Joe. They deregulated info numbers here a while back, there are about ten competing systems, all 5 or 6 digits and nobody can ever remember 'em. When you *do* remember one, chances are it's just gone out of business... The best bet is the one with the catchiest jingle, which I think is 11-8-11 right now ... |
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| Jul-25-07 | | dabearsrock1010: Catch-22 is a good book man just so you know |
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| Jul-26-07 | | JoeWms: Dom, why should Jess get all the fun?
<Knight13> on 7-14: Not the fornicate form of "screw" it's the "Screw you!" form. <Achieve> on 7-26: Dutch slang for "to screw" someone, (the bad way). That clears it up, Niels. Joe
P.S. What's the good way?
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| Jul-26-07 | | achieve: <Joe> Well spotted. Yet another inaccuracy. To sow = naaien, which can have a few meanings.
I guess you're right in noting that "to screw someone" can only be interpreted in a "bad" way. (Even that last sentence wasn't 100% accurate but I'll leave it at that) |
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| Jul-26-07 | | achieve: Ok, one more try..
to sow = zaaien
to sew = naaien
This time I've got it right. Funny coincidence that <only one> letter changes in both English and Dutch. |
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Jul-26-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Well you've all forgotten one, at least in English.
Literally, to "screw someone" means to take a <screwdriver> and to twist a <screw> into thier flesh. OUCH!! |
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Jul-26-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> OK it's been a week and I can't stop laughing every time I read this. To me, it's the funniest post I ever read in my life. It's in my Profile, but I'm putting it here in case you missed it. <Chess Classics: <<<<Huh?>>>> Well, here's a real "strange but true" fact: I just went outside for the first time in 3 days. I was out there for about 10 seconds, then I came back in. Isn't that something? Regards,
CC>
PS do you think I'm insane? Please tell me the truth, I need to know. |
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| Jul-26-07 | | achieve: <Jess> If you *think* you are insane, you probably aren't. And vice versa. The <CC> quote is a little gem IMHO. |
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| Jul-26-07 | | achieve: P.S. We "all" have a <screw> loose, for sure. |
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| Jul-26-07 | | mack: Oh my, I've got a lot of catching up to do round here. If ever I were in the loop, I'm well and truly out of it now. |
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Jul-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Do *I* think you're insane? Pot, kettle, black. Of course not. The wicker man told me.
Also, I don't hold with outdoors. |
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Jul-26-07
| | Domdaniel: Before we finish with naaien = sew/ screw, here's a local detail. Here in Cork, opening a wine bottle can be awkward. Going to a shop, friend, neighbor etc and saying "Hi, I'm looking for a Corkscrew" is, um, open to misinterpretation. I've noticed that the female students who live next door always ask for a 'wine bottle opener'. Funny, that. |
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Jul-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <Corkscrews> And this still holds true even when the vino bottles are stoppered with plastic/rubber or even screw caps. I guess "Hi, I'd like a Cork screw that works with rubbers and screw caps" is potentially worse. |
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Jul-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <DaBears> I know. Pity Heller never finished the sequel Catch-23. Didn't he originally want to call it Catch-19, or something like that? |
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Jul-26-07
| | Domdaniel: <Piscopo> Portuguese for 'fisherman'? Or a luxury toilet formerly used by officers in Ceausescu's secret police -- a Securitate Urinal. Now mostly used as orphanages. Just guessing. |
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Jul-26-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Heh.
Piscopo.
Heh. |
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| Jul-26-07 | | Swyp: "J'ai une maladie: je vois le langage."
I've heard a few rough translations of this, I'm wondering if you'd mind filling me in on an exact one? |
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Jul-27-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: I'm sick: I see language.
See, it makes even MORE SENSE in English!!
A strict transliteration would be:
"I have an illness: I see the language."
But the first translation is more accurate in terms of idiom and "sense." But don't go looking for "sense" in the writings of <Barthes> in his post-<Mythologies> period. On the other hand, drop acid and then read <SZ>. Really. You'll enjoy yourself. |
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