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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 4 1 2 3 4 The mantling of Bingley #101979 05/12/03 03:00 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 "Situation Vacant" http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=104286 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: The mantling of Bingley #101980 05/13/03 01:51 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Come, Bingley--let us shelter under your mantle. I'll be the starship... (Nobody can comment on this, 'cause we're invisible.) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter A Table is a Table #101981 05/16/03 01:49 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA This story reminded me of something, a short story we read in german class some years ago, called "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" by Peter Bichsel. It's about this lonely old man who amuses himself by changing the meanings of the words in his diction. I don't recall the details, but the man might have said that, for example, the newspaper was now called the dresser, and the dresser was called the door, and walking was called swimming - I'm making all these up, but you get the picture. At the end of the story, the fellow tries to have a trivial conversation with his neighbors and discovers he can't understand what they're saying. Some people in my class thought the story was very funny - and it was in a macabre sort of way. Mostly I just thought it was depressing. I just did a search on the web and found http://www.fliff.com/films2002/table.htm which appears to be a retelling (?) of the story as a movie. But this sounds like the story has a happy ending. (Crap, I've forgotten any german i knew, but I'm still tempted to find my old text and try to read this again.) k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Table is a Table #101982 05/16/03 07:53 PM Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 67 A anchita journeyman anchita journeyman A Joined: Apr 2003 Posts: 67 I remember having read the English translation of this story (titled "A Table is a Table," of course) in school. I agree completely that it was a sad, depressing story... a reminder of how already isolated individuals get alienated from the mainstream society, compounding their lonliness and misery. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Klingon is not a Romulan #101983 05/16/03 08:47 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/klingon.asp snopes has spoken... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Klingon is not a Romulan #101984 05/16/03 09:42 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA oh, damn! i've been had again! thanks, k Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A Klingon is not a Romulan #101985 05/17/03 01:15 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Thanks, eta, for the link, and for the reminder about snopes. Somebody e-mailed me (yep, another one of those) that story about the man who supposedly set his new RV on cruise control, then went in the back to make himself a cup of coffee. I just checked snopes, and found what I expected; I was glad it was there. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 4 of 4 1 2 3 4 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. 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