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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread aufwiederschauen St Coulombs #170036 09/17/2007 6:34 PM Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 19 Mt Meru varaha stranger varaha stranger Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 19 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs varaha #170041 09/17/2007 8:15 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Interesting book to take to a livestock auction! Copy Link to Clipboard Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs varaha #170402 10/05/2007 10:53 AM Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 19 Mt Meru varaha stranger varaha stranger Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 19 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs varaha #170435 10/05/2007 7:34 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs Zed #170820 10/23/2007 1:49 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs AnnaStrophic #171846 12/03/2007 11:33 AM Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 5 Here Be Dragons Scriveyn stranger Scriveyn stranger Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 5 Here Be Dragons "Dirty Underpants or, Divining frae ye Shitte in Thy Pants"? Copy Link to Clipboard Re: aufwiederschauen St Coulombs Scriveyn #171868 12/04/2007 2:43 PM Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 19 Mt Meru varaha stranger varaha stranger Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 19 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Moderated by  Jackie  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... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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