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Aug-11-07
 | | Domdaniel: <More Holy Writs> In the Beginning was the <Pun>. And the <Dom> was in the <Pun>, and the <Pun> was in the <Dom>. And Dom saw that it was Cod. <"The Delphic oracle, telling a general both to stay at home and not to stay at home, employed a pun: 'Domine, stes' sounds the same as 'Domi ne stes'. The enquirer took the latter meaning, went out to battle and was killed."> - Anthony Burgess, Joysprick
- Walter Redfern, Puns
I empathise. Used to have a nice little oracle number running, back before they invented Gurgle. Now nobody wants to consult a live soothsayer anymore, they just Gurgle it. Same old ambiguous lies ensue, naturally. I'd rather trust a prawn cracker with a clamp on its jaws than a googleur. ("The Pit, The Pat, The Pet, The Pot, The Put, The Pudenda and the Pendulums", by Edgar Allan Potpourri) |
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| Aug-11-07 | | WBP: <DOM>. How be you, sir? Love your <Holy Writs> on puns. Good stuff, good stuff! Your forum of late has taken a fascinating turn (though that's hardly unique here) with all the German/Dutch stuff. I studied German years ago, but like the Tin Woodsman, I am quite rusty and am in need of a wizard or two to get back up to snuff. I do, however, consult live soothsayers from time to time. I believe they're called doctors over here. |
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Aug-11-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Thank God for <Dutch speakers>. Anyone here friends with <Jeroen Krabbe>? He owes me money. |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: Hej, Yessica.
(If Jeroen is Yeroon, you're Yessica -- okay?)
"Apart from that, yer on Jeroen". As they say.
SCENE TWO
Two small Nederlandic-Canadian boys, JAN and his chum FEB, bored with sticking their fingers into dykes all day long, are fishing for, um, crabs. Jan:
- Goed God. I am catching one.
Feb:
- No, you are stealing the one that I am catching, herrieschopper! Go catch *Jeroen*! A giant KRAB, named MAR, emerges from the Zee and devours both boys, spitting out the clogs. The moral is we should work together against giant krabs, global warming, and alien mutant marine decapod crustaceans, and not selfishly hog stuff or claim sole credit. The end, tenslotte. |
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Aug-11-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well said <Dominus>! And in the form of a <mini play>, like <Plato> used to communicate. WHY WOULDN'T THE OYSTER SHARE?
HE WAS TOO SHELLFISH
HAHAHAHAAHA |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: This one is dedicated to the great <Joe Wms>, the only all-seeing legally blind person in the known universe. A barkeeper suddenly ejects a blind couple who had been quietly sipping their drinks. Why? "I'm just throwing out feelers", he says. |
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Aug-11-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: New <Bond Film>:
"For Crab Fans Only"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroen... |
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Aug-11-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: heh <feelers>.
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Aug-11-07
 | | Open Defence: I dont like musicians.. they are too high strung |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: <oplopen> ... and english 'lope' meaning... what? To ramble? To walk with a long stride? To take big steps? To walk like a cowboy? To utilise pedal locomotary propulsion in a markedly masculine manner? One of them, anyhow. 'lope' is also connected to Old Norse 'hlaupa'. But not to other words near it in the dictionary, which are a pretty unsavory crowd, I can tell you: lop (to cut off); loop, loopy, loopiest; lorazepam; loquat (an ornamental tree); loquacious; loom; loon, loony, loonier; loo; loofah; lord, lordy; loosestrife (Lysimachia Vulgaris). The rest is vulgar. |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: Did you guys know that the writer Tim Krabbé is the brother of Yeroone? Artistic family.. The son of Jeroen, Martijn, is presenting Krab-junk at TV, however. (Goede God..) |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: <To utilise pedal locomotary propulsion in a markedly masculine manner?> Now don't get fixated on the "masculine" thing, <Domini>. |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: Isn't it locomot<o>ry? *runs and hides* |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: <Oplopen Defence> Wow. That word-mash came about entirely by accident. Thank you, <Deffi>, for appearing at exactly the right moment. Um. I thought you *were* a musician? If you have a bad opinion of all musicians including yourself, it could be a case of <Low Selfy Steam> for which the only cure is a huge ego. Luckily, I have a spare one. |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: <achieve> Goede God? The Dutch have solved the deity-gender problem, and She's a Her, not a Heer? Excellent. <It was a "Dopple Round Dublin"- format..> They used to have gangers working on the docks in Dublin, but I never met a Doppelganger. But while I was nosing around that corner of the dictionary, I found some fantastic words: doodsbang = scared to death
doodbloeden = bleed to death
doodeenvoudig = perfectly simple
(In Irish Gaelic and Hiberno-English, a 'doodeen' is a small tobacco pipe) doorlopen = to walk through; to run (of colours); to get a move on ... ... and it still looks like 'door open' with an intrusive 'L'... Nederlands is fantastisch. Grillig, even, I think. |
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Aug-11-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Not <brillig>?
What will the <slithey toves> think? |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: Damn it! You're onto something!
dead = death
dead = death
dead = perfect(ly)
doorlopen = walk on but increase speed NOW!
your temperature is rising = Je temperatuur is aan het oplopen Grillig -- BRILLIANT !! How to translate that? My guess is "unpredictable but fascinating" Take that!
< They used to have gangers working on the docks in Dublin, but I never met a Doppelganger.> OK I am having yet another laughing fit! Hehe slik... |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> You are, uh, totally correct about that loco thing. And *you* should 'run and hide'? What about me? I'll never live it down. The shame: two misplaced vowels in one day... Hmm. Look at this:
<Live it up -- live it down -- live it up -- live it down -- live it up -- live it down ...> I think I've invented a perpetual motion machine. So we won't need the loco. |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: I meant "dood".. DOH!! |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: <Live it up -- live it down -- live it up -- live it down -- live it up -- live it down ...> <I think I've invented a perpetual motion machine. So we won't need the loco.> Say What?! *We* need to work on some minor details, little improvements, and I think we're pretty much "home dry". |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: <Dood> I used to slightly know an actress named Elaine Doody -- I think she was in a Bond movie once, but faded away or married a millionaire or something like that. But I remember it was possible to annoy her by greeting her with a big "Howdy, Doody!" What the @#*% does *that* have to do with anything? I'm oot-rambling, oot-loping again... The Dude endures.
And the Dom startles.
And that's the whole story folks, from STARTle to ENDure. "I'm gonna finish my novel with a great big THE END. How do you plan to end yours?" |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> And I thought "dead = death" was highly advanced quantum metaphysics, beyond us ordinary mortals. But it shoulda been "dood" all along, huh? Never mind. World's full of things that shoulda been done but never got dood. That's why the secret name of the planet is <Inertia>. "Where do you live, human? In Ert, ja?"
Earth, Erde, Aarde, Jord ... dammit, it has to work *somewhere* ... Zamin ... Zemlya ... Terra ... Domhain ... nope, nada, but there's an innaresting echo between Farsi and Gaelic which is worth checking out... |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: <I'm gonna finish my novel with a great big THE END> what's the title? <How do you plan to end yours?"> She endures me! Ouch -- bad finish.. I'll leave the Grande Finale for you. Howdy, Doody! (nice tactical stroke Btw..) |
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Aug-11-07
| | Domdaniel: <achieve> Tactical? At the time, I thought it was strategical. But we live and we (occasionally) learn... in reality, it was barely a proper opening and it never left the book... |
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Aug-11-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: finish reading or writing it? |
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