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Topic Options #170036 - 09/17/07 02:34 PM aufwiederschauen St Coulombs varaha stranger Registered: 08/22/04 Posts: 19 Loc: Mt Meru "Stand aside everyone; I take large steps. Sometimes I astound even myself." Or so, Miles Gloriosus is said to have bellowed. Just the other day, while shopping at the local livestock auction in Pountine, LA, I found that one of the maculate brethern had left behind a serious tome. I could tell it was serious because it was written in a foreign tongue and weighed one-twentieth of a hundredweight. I decided thereupon to read it, but being hampered by my lack of Jermain and Lathine, I guess it'll be more than a fortnight before I can give you all a critique of it. Be that as it may, I'll leave you with the tastiest part: its bibliographical details: Gernard Kejt. Schmitzige Gatkes: oder, das Haruspicium a bracis interioribus decacatis, apud Stageira ab Fratribus Illuminatibus Rhenicis, MDCLXVI. Top #170041 - 09/17/07 04:15 PM Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs [Re: varaha] Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada Interesting book to take to a livestock auction! Top #170402 - 10/05/07 06:53 AM Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs [Re: varaha] varaha stranger Registered: 08/22/04 Posts: 19 Loc: Mt Meru "Oh, dear; oh my" quotha. I knew in my spleen of spleens that I would not be able to get past the table of contents in this book, and yet I rashly promised to read and review it. Be that as it may, that should not prevent a critic from criticking. So, here it is: it's purely and simply unREADable. The author should not be allowed to allocate paper that might otherwise have been put to a more mundane usage. But I will spare you all, least you try to find the book and read it. Top #170435 - 10/05/07 03:34 PM Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs [Re: varaha] Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada I couldn't have gotten past the title so kudos for trying. Try something that doesn't need a wheelbarrow to carry next time. Top #170820 - 10/23/07 09:49 AM Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs [Re: Zed] AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York Originally Posted By: Zed I couldn't have gotten past the title so kudos for trying. Try something that doesn't need a wheelbarrow to carry next time. ...like Weimar Republic Deutschmarks. Top #171846 - 12/03/07 06:33 AM Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs [Re: AnnaStrophic] Scriveyn stranger Registered: 02/22/07 Posts: 5 Loc: Here Be Dragons "Dirty Underpants or, Divining frae ye Shitte in Thy Pants"? Top #171868 - 12/04/07 09:43 AM Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs [Re: Scriveyn] varaha stranger Registered: 08/22/04 Posts: 19 Loc: Mt Meru "Dirty Underpants or, Divining frae ye Shitte in Thy Pants"? Hmm, looks good to me, but I might have translated the last bit as Divination by Beshitted Long Johns, if that is in fact what inner breeches means. Now, the real mystery, to me, is who the author was or what his pseudonym meant. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8426 Members 16 Forums 13687 Topics 209793 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members sylviasuper, continent2, a2teacher, teepee, smoothcriminal86 8426 Registered Users Who's Online 2 registered (jenny jenny, Buffalo Shrdlu), 24 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 86 wofahulicodoc 56 jenny jenny 56 endymion6 48 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 33 Buffalo Shrdlu 15 Faldage 14 zmjezhd 13 tsuwm 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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