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Feb-13-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <twinlark> Yeesh it took me awhile but I finally got your joke--and it is hilarious... THOR HEYERDAHL!!
FLAMING STAR- the story of one man's adventures building a series of balsa and reed boats in an effort to spread Norwegian Anthropological seed to every willing Island receptacle!! WITH ALEC BALDWIN as THOR,
DAKOTA FANNING as the perky Moray Eel,
and
JOHNNY DEPP as the Oil Slick on the Pacific!!
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: And <twinlark> bowls the cadre... |
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| Feb-13-07 | | hitman84: <So Australia have been winning the Ashes> LOL I just love watching the pommies get pummeled not that I'm a fan of Aussie cricketers.. Picky Ranting
Shame Warn
Murk Wag
Darn Layman
Glen Mcquack |
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| Feb-13-07 | | hitman84: some more..
Myhell Quark
Chosen Gayspay
Brat Hog
*Simon Katich
Just e langur
Nut unbroken
Met few laidin
Jem buck anon
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <twinlark> bowls the cadre, <Hitman> at the wicket and NOT PLAYED!!
YES, BRILLIANTLY NOT PLAYED AT ALL BY <Hitman>!! |
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| Feb-13-07 | | hitman84: <YES, BRILLIANTLY NOT PLAYED AT ALL BY <Hitman>!!> That's because I'm a non striker. |
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| Feb-13-07 | | twinlark: hitman84...you're plumb loco, my man and Chosen Gayspay made me choke on my lasagna. |
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <twinlark> Check out the link in <Hitman's> forum that leads to an authentic <Pommie Bastard Cricketer>: It's a real Cricketer! |
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| Feb-13-07 | | twinlark: <jessica> Ta.
The last line of Pommie's bio made me laugh: <He was one of international cricket's genuine No. 11s.> |
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Feb-13-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Hitman> In this micro-locality the name 'Langer' doesn't have to be deformed at all, as it's a multipurpose insult used only in the city of Cork. Where I seem to be at the moment... There's a very long and repetitive dirge -- The Langer Song -- which makes <twinlark>'s Erse Verse look Terse. <themadhair> was kind enough to post all 336 verses on <Joe Wms>'s forum during a previous discussion of the phenom... enon. Enow. Crivvens! Can I still say 'basta', even?
Speaking of micro-cultural peculiarities -- we *were*, weren't we? -- this 'surfing the web' metaphor is a tad Californian for people who live in inner cities, or up trees, or deep inland, or near a frozen pole, or wherever... So we get variations like:
England: pottering in the virtual allotment
Ireland: crawling between silicon pubs
Denmark: riding the electric seesaw
[subject to correction: <Vippe på legetøjsvippe elektrisk>] ... I could go on, but I'd better stick to countries I've actually lived in. |
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Feb-13-07
| | Domdaniel: Language of the day: <Volapuk> More correctly, Volapük - an artificial language like Esperanto, Klingon, Interglossa and (my own almost structureless and vocabulary-free contribution to the science) Entropanto. From an anglophone perspective, it takes enormous perversity to invent an artificial and would-be universal language whose very name features diacritical marks, but that just goes to show how insular we anglos are. Most of the world’s writers use dots, accents, graves, umlauts and so on all the time, and that’s only counting the alphabetical ones. Volapük was invented in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a German priest. Borges has this to say about it: <His vocabulary is absurd, but his ability to encompass many nuances in a single word merits some respect. Volapük is interminably abundant with inflections: a verb may have 505,440 different forms. (Peglidalöd, for example, means “You ought to be greeted.”)> On a practical note, we may observe that if one were to learn a new verb-form every day, it would take approximately 1384 years and 9 months to achieve fluency. Peglidalöd? I wonder how one says "You should be so lucky"? |
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Feb-13-07
| | Domdaniel: Of course, if <You ought to be greeted> is itself a greeting, that changes things. Though in terms of tone it sounds roughly halfway between Yiddish and Klingon. |
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Volapuk> (imagine the oomlowt)-- seems a bit previous, no? With regard to greetings? What's wrong wit G'day?
Is it possible to translate a Voapukian sentence into <Australian>? Just saying, if <Australian> was a good enough language for <Jesus>, it's a good enough language for my kids. Mrs. Stuffed Prune
Wallaby's Balls Sheep Station, somewheres in the Middle I should expect. |
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| Feb-13-07 | | mack: 'Yippee' said Charlie, 'Chaplain?'
I look forward to my joint responsibilities with great anticipation. Stay tuned for an inaugural lecture. |
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Feb-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Australian> is the formal version, only used when John Howard PM meets a Windsor. The vernacular is called Strine, as in the classic <Let Stalk Strine>. There's also a dialect called Tazzie used in a certain large offshore island, but that's Prof Lark's turf. Being a meta-trekkie, you'll know that the Klingon for 'hello' translates roughly as <What do you want?> - it just seemed to me that <You Ought to be Greeted> was similar, but with a dash of Yiddish irony... Depends on the stress, I suppose...
You ought to be GREETED = Oh, Lord, the shame, I'm mortified, I'll have my greeter flogged YOU ought to be greeted = normally we don't bother, but in this case... You OUGHT to be greeted = And if my grandmother had balls she'd be my grandfather... |
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <dom> LOL
Were you aware that I've been working on a <Yiddish literature paper> all week? If not, the <synchornicity> is amazing. And how dare <The Police> use that word as an album title!! ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOXANNNE
enough already!! and now a reunion tour!!
I think all three should be sat down for a week with their eyelids taped open and forced to read Joyce's <The Dead> over and over and over |
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Feb-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> - <'Yippee' said Charlie, 'Chaplain?'> Exemplary. Other faculty please take note. Here is one of our Profs actually riffling through the preceding pages to count his citations. Admirable. I look forward to any Holy Scriptures that may emerge, or fragments thereof. |
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Feb-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Don't put out the red light as snow is general all over and an occluded synchronicity front is coming up fast... I had a similar reaction to Spanish Inquisition, btw. Aye, they tend to do that. |
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Feb-13-07
| | Domdaniel: Ah, the Police.
(Not to be confused with <Aaaaaargh, the police!!!> - which is a different class of utterance.) Sting, where is thy Death? |
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: LOL <master domo>... It's amazing to me that so-called <adult-oriented radio playlists> are in fact collections of music that is 30 years old or more... Baby Boomers, it's time to pass the torch. But thanks for the history lessons all the same!! |
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Feb-13-07
| | Domdaniel: You gotta point, Jess, you gotta point. Will it do if I just add Emm Gryner to my list of Great Canadians? Or is that trying-desperately-to-sound contemporary and failing-risibly? There's a word for it in Volapuk (still imagining the oomlowt) |
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: OOmlout shoomlout.
No worries, <Dom> yer as hip as the snarkiest 12 year old I know, plus you have one additional attribute: You're not stupid.
BTW ALL Canadians are great.
(deciding to buck the Canadian trend and become a Rampant Nationalist) Easter 1917!!!!
Bloody Poms... |
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| Feb-13-07 | | Tomlinsky: Great Canadians. Not sure if you have these but two that hail from where I have recently set up home, Montreal and loving it, are Oscar Peterson and Leonard Cohen. The Québécois will of course argue that neither are in fact Canadian at all and spontaniously combust if suggested otherwise. |
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Tomlinsky> I love Montreal too, lived and schooled there for a whole year. Isn't it great? What street do you live on? I lived near the corner of <St. Laurent> and <Villeneuve>, which is near <Cohen's> old house, now a Zen Buddhist center run by his friend <Myokio>... BTW, <Oscar Peteson> grew up in <Hamilton> before moving to <Montreal>.. Merci infinitement pour ton message! |
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Feb-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Tomlinsky> Les Quebecois are always ready to <spontaneously self-combust>, which is why you have to love them. Vive le Quebec libre!!!
(Bloody Poms) |
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