I particularly like "Poronkusema - Finnish: the distance equal to how far a reindeer can travel without a comfort break."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weirdworld/...89520-19993239/

porokusema--I wonder, is that a great distance (or a smaller one?) than a 6 year old (or 60 year old!) can travel in a car?

We called 'comfort breaks',, euphemistically, 'travel information' (and we always need alot!)

Oh, these are GREAT, Anna! Thanks for posting them!
"cows have drunk his brain". !

They must have a lot of brazen women in the Philippines: the action of a woman who, when she wants to marry a man, goes to his house and refuses to leave until marriage is agreed upon.

Several show that things are the same all over the world:
Kaelling - Danish: a woman who stands on her doorstep yelling obscenities at her kids.

Kamaki - Greek: the young local guys strolling up and down beaches hunting for female tourists, literally "harpoons".

Hira Hira - Japanese: the feeling you get when you walk into a dark and decrepit old house in the middle of the night.

Mariteddu Tamant'e Un Ditu Ieddu Voli Essa Rivaritu -
Corsican: a husband must be respected even if he is very short.

I find this one really cute.
De vraag is alleen hoe kort? Waist high? Knee high? Ankle high?

From "Weird and wondrful (sic) foreign phrases.."

...Or wondered why there isn't a nice pithy term for a person who is only attractive if they're standing quite far away?

But there is…in French, we say “Elle est belle de loin, mais loin d’être belle.” Translated: “She's beautiful from far, but far from beautiful.”



Kanjus Makkhicus - Hindi: a person so miserly that if a fly falls into his cup of tea, he'll fish it out and suck it dry before throwing it away.

Um. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!

“Elle est belle de loin, mais loin d’être belle.”

yep, I spose that is considered a 'pithy term' in French.

-ron o.

Mais oui, it is very pithy...short direct and memorable.

:-P



(hey, how come we don't have a sticking-out-your-tongue emoticon)

It is. A fine exemple of 'un mot d'esprit'. Un bon mot.
At the court of Louis XVI one could climb to a high position or fall down to deepest disgrace by producing or missing 'un mot d'esprit'.

There is a very good movie about this by Patrice Leconte:
I keep it on tape as a most pleasant, witty movie.

Ridicule

César du cinéma 1997
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Baffona - Italian: an attractive moustachioed woman.
There are many goodies, AnnaStrophic

because mostly the emoticons are hideous?

strange, there is a :¬ P emote that can be used as a Post Icon, so I suppose if you wanted to do the work you could find the url for it, and use it, but.

Lemme try my favorite:


Hmm--it works, sort of. Dunno how to get rid of the box.

-joe (image that) friday
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two steps:
1) right click on image, copy image location
2) enter image

Aye, ETA, but there's that odd sign that does the nose that I don't have on my keyboard and can't find in my symbols.

8=P
:-p
8op
:-P~
8-@
thhhpppttt

:¬þ on a PC:
þ ALT-0254
¬ ALT-0172

Gesundheit.

Las Vegas?

option-l (that's a lowercase L) on a mac = ¬

and so strange that quoting would break the Unicode?

>and so strange that quoting would break the Unicode?

and, it only broke for you, not for ASp!?

oy! wtf?

Ooooo. I want this. I love Tigger.




EDIT: P.S. He kicks Hobbs' butt anyday!!! HA!

!!!!!!!!!!! Since I made my other post, the spacespider site has gone to avatars and wallpaper: NO smileys in sight! WAIL--I've never seen that mouth-dropping one anywhere else.

EDIT: I tried right-clicking on my image above, clicked on Open link in that menu, and was taken to a new site--which did have this one. (Whew.) Now to try your advice:
[img][/img]
[img][/img]
[url=[url=http://www.freesmileys.org][img]

Nope; I tried it the normal* way, and your way. Still have the box. :-(
*That is, the way I normally do it!

don' know where you found that, but.



oh, this one?



edit: I followed my instructions.
two steps:
1) right click on image, copy image location (from menu)
2) enter image ("Enter an image")

These ones are the craziests, most funny ones I've seen.
+ There is some beauty in this madness.
And Jackie's mishap is graphically also very beautiful.

I can't "copy image location": that's not an option I'm given. I can only "copy". There is an option to "copy shortcut" but it's not clickable. Trying again, this time using URL instead of Forum Code:
[img]http://www.freesmileys.org[/img]

Well, that didn't work. Back to Forum Code, this time using the link button and not the image insert button:
[url=][/url]

Nope--still the box. Guess it's time to give up.

ah, you're using IE, I'm using firefox..
I did this one from IE by copying just the 'img' part of the address from freesmileys, leaving off the surrounding [url][/url].

that is, it looks like this in the source code and just the part in quotes gets pasted into the 'Enter an image' box:
<img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/shocked016.gif">

you can edit out the extraneous url/img stuff once you've pasted the whole thing into said box.

edit: just one of the advantages of firefox.

another option: hand-code it like this, leaving out the spaces
[ img]http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/shocked003.gif[ /img]

Hey, it worked!!

tsuwm:

Gee--can we say now that this has been the most "shocking" thread ever? I shall copy and save your instructions above, since I know I won't use this often enough to remember them. (And, I might add for all and sundry, this is also a shocking thread in that normally I dislike icons that move--I find them too distracting. But I just love that dropping-mouth one!)

Hurray!You did it! As Michelangelo said yesterday: Genius is eternal patience. For the both of you.
But I still like your twin failure 'jack in the box' almost better than the perfect end product.

(Like my mother's half succeeded chocolate cakes always tasted better than the high and mighty risen prize cake)