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Otto Bahn

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Jan 30, 2001, 6:36:37 PM1/30/01
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W A L T Z I N G

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M A T I L D A

David Bromage

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Jan 30, 2001, 6:49:54 PM1/30/01
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ITYM "walk like an Egyptian".

HTH

Xcott Craver

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Jan 30, 2001, 9:42:59 PM1/30/01
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Otto Bahn <JGA...@khepburn.mc.duke.edu> wrote:

>W A L T Z I N G
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> / \
> / \__
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>

>M A _ T I L D A

Um, um, hold on ... are you sure that's a real word?

-S

Mark Hill

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Jan 31, 2001, 2:46:30 AM1/31/01
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Otto Bahn <JGA...@khepburn.mc.duke.edu> writes:

> W A L T Z I N G
>

> Perth
> \ ~
> * |

John Burrage

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Jan 31, 2001, 3:06:58 AM1/31/01
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Mark Hill <mh...@epicentre.net> wrote:
: Otto Bahn <JGA...@khepburn.mc.duke.edu> writes:

:> W A L T Z I N G

:> My house
:> Perth /
:> \ / ~


:> * |
:> |_ |_
:> | |_
:> / \
:> / \__
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:> M A T I L D A

AND YOU'RE ALL INVITED!

COME ONE, COME ALL!

--
John Burrage
http://members.iinet.net.au/~burrage/

Joseph Michael Bay

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Jan 31, 2001, 3:12:45 AM1/31/01
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sacr...@use.my.princeton.address (Xcott Craver) writes:

>Otto Bahn <JGA...@khepburn.mc.duke.edu> wrote:


I think it's spelled "WALTZING MA~" but I'm not sure
what the swastika is for. THREAD'S OVER FOLKS GO ON MOVE ALONG


--
In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul instructed them to Joe Bay
send ten copies to the Thessalonians and the Stanford University
Ephesians. But the Ephesians broke the chain, Stanford, California
and were punished by the LORD ...

Otto Bahn

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Jan 31, 2001, 9:50:01 AM1/31/01
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Ungrateful bastards!

--oTTo--

Xcott Craver

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Jan 31, 2001, 9:05:38 PM1/31/01
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Otto Bahn <JGA...@khepburn.mc.duke.edu> wrote:
>Ungrateful bastards!

Sorry, we shouldn't be making fun of our Australian friends.
I hear they have it really bad. For instance, their C
compilers require that you end each C statement not with
a mere semicolon, but with the string, "HEAVE AWAY, HAUL AWAY."
That would really suck!

>--oTTo--
-S

[Australia Australia Australia Australia we love you AMEN!]

Otto Bahn

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Feb 1, 2001, 10:50:07 AM2/1/01
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Xcott Craver wrote:
>
> Otto Bahn <JGA...@khepburn.mc.duke.edu> wrote:
> >Ungrateful bastards!
>
> Sorry, we shouldn't be making fun of our Australian friends.

Ungrateful Austrian friends!

> I hear they have it really bad. For instance, their C
> compilers require that you end each C statement not with
> a mere semicolon, but with the string, "HEAVE AWAY, HAUL AWAY."
> That would really suck!

Does assembler really compile backwards down there?

--oTTo--

Poot Rootbeer

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Feb 1, 2001, 11:04:07 PM2/1/01
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sacr...@use.my.princeton.address (Xcott Craver) wrote:
> Sorry, we shouldn't be making fun of our Australian friends.
> I hear they have it really bad. For instance, their C
> compilers require that you end each C statement not with
> a mere semicolon, but with the string, "HEAVE AWAY, HAUL AWAY."
> That would really suck!

ITYM "HEAVE AWAY, HAUL AWAY.\0"!

Gotta terminate those strings! Even BEABLE VAN POLASM knows to
terminate strings with a null character when writing code in ANSI C,
which was invented by the

<A>ustralia
<N>ational
<S>cience
<I>nstitute!

-Poot

Beable van Polasm

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Feb 2, 2001, 1:38:25 AM2/2/01
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po...@dork.com (Poot Rootbeer) writes:

> sacr...@use.my.princeton.address (Xcott Craver) wrote:
> > Sorry, we shouldn't be making fun of our Australian friends.
> > I hear they have it really bad. For instance, their C
> > compilers require that you end each C statement not with
> > a mere semicolon, but with the string, "HEAVE AWAY, HAUL AWAY."
> > That would really suck!
>
> ITYM "HEAVE AWAY, HAUL AWAY.\0"!
>
> Gotta terminate those strings! Even BEABLE VAN POLASM knows to
> terminate strings with a null character when writing code in ANSI C,

Yes I do know that! And I know that you are VERY SILLY!

> which was invented by the
>
> <A>ustralia
> <N>ational
> <S>cience
> <I>nstitute!

SPEAKING of standards,
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
says:
-> In some countries (e.g., Germany) even many brands of toilet paper
-> have format A6.

Those methodical Germans! A6 toilet paper! I imagine that if you
replaced their A6 toilet paper with some B7 toilet paper or C6
toilet paper, they would be UPSET all day!

"Ach Mein Fuehrer! I had to wipen mein arse with NON-STANDARD size
Toilettenpapier this morgen!"

"Gott in HIMMEL! Let's ANNEX THE SUDETENLAND and INVADE POLAND!"

cheers
Beable van Polasm
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Oh yeah.... I forgot you're a moron. -- George Hammond
IQC 78189333
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Plorkwort

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Feb 2, 2001, 1:50:30 AM2/2/01
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The moving finger of Beable van Polasm wrote <bea...@my-deja.com:

>SPEAKING of standards,
>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
>says:
>-> In some countries (e.g., Germany) even many brands of toilet paper
>-> have format A6.

My copy of the second volume of Charles Lyell's "Principles of
Geology" has a note inside the front cover proclaiming its conformance to
ANSI Z39.48-1984, Permanance of Paper for Printed Library
Materials. Now, Lyell's main acheivement, besides thinking of about half
the ideas Charles Darwin took credit for, was proving the age of the earth
was to be measured in geologic eras instead of human or Biblical
timescales. In this vein, perhaps it would be most appropriate for this
volume to include:
- ANSI Standard on deterioration of C13 isotopes;
- ANSI Standard for Continental drift, with substandards for the inertia
and supplementary momentum incurred from the force of falling penguins;
- Standards for permanance of rocks under erosion and transmutation of
species;
- Standards brightly colored and fluttering in the breeze as the
war-horns trumpet over the May morning hills;
etc.

Plorkwort
--
Hannah:'He died aged two score years and seven, hoary as Job and meagre as a
cabbage-stalk, the proof of his prediction even yet unyielding to his labours
for the restitution of hope through good English algebra.'
--Tom Stoppard, _Arcadia_

Joseph Michael Bay

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Feb 2, 2001, 5:23:01 AM2/2/01
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Beable van Polasm <bea...@my-deja.com> writes:


>"Gott in HIMMEL! Let's ANNEX THE SUDETENLAND and INVADE POLAND!"


This made me think of Zippy the Pinhead, viz:

"Gott in HIMMEL! Let's ANNEX TH' SUDETENLAND and INVADE POLAND!"

Beable van Polasm

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Feb 2, 2001, 5:42:51 AM2/2/01
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jm...@Stanford.EDU (Joseph Michael Bay) writes:
> Beable van Polasm <bea...@my-deja.com> writes:
> >"Gott in HIMMEL! Let's ANNEX THE SUDETENLAND and INVADE POLAND!"
>
> This made me think of Zippy the Pinhead, viz:
>
> "Gott in HIMMEL! Let's ANNEX TH' SUDETENLAND and INVADE POLAND!"

Gott in HIMMEL! Ich bin channelink HITLER and ZIPPY! AT TH' SAME TIME!

cheers
Beable van Polasm
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He could knock the wind out of anything, including a sailboat!
-- WCW Nitro Commentator
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Otto Bahn

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Feb 2, 2001, 11:43:18 PM2/2/01
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Beable van Polasm wrote:
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> jm...@Stanford.EDU (Joseph Michael Bay) writes:
> > Beable van Polasm <bea...@my-deja.com> writes:
> > >"Gott in HIMMEL! Let's ANNEX THE SUDETENLAND and INVADE POLAND!"
> >
> > This made me think of Zippy the Pinhead, viz:
> >
> > "Gott in HIMMEL! Let's ANNEX TH' SUDETENLAND and INVADE POLAND!"
>
> Gott in HIMMEL! Ich bin channelink HITLER and ZIPPY! AT TH' SAME TIME!

This is the point where the French government starts
booking hotels in London.

--oTTo--

Michael Hellwig

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Feb 7, 2001, 4:07:51 PM2/7/01
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>>--oTTo--
> -S

now what .. Austria or Australia? the subject says "austria", the
content "australia" ....

there are no cangaroos in austria, as a famous t-shirt says! ;-)

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regards, Michael Hellwig aka The Eye

Beable van Polasm

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Feb 7, 2001, 6:32:10 PM2/7/01
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Michael Hellwig <the...@deadspam.com> writes:

> Xcott Craver <sacr...@use.my.princeton.address> wrote:
> > [Australia Australia Australia Australia we love you AMEN!]
>
> now what .. Austria or Australia? the subject says "austria", the
> content "australia" ....
>
> there are no cangaroos in austria, as a famous t-shirt says! ;-)

Well of course not! Austria is PACKED with Kangaroos but.

cheers
Beable van Polasm
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I FLIRT YOU!!!!! -- Poot Rootbeer
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Otto Bahn

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Feb 7, 2001, 7:15:51 PM2/7/01
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Beable van Polasm wrote:
>
> Michael Hellwig <the...@deadspam.com> writes:
> > Xcott Craver <sacr...@use.my.princeton.address> wrote:
> > > [Australia Australia Australia Australia we love you AMEN!]
> >
> > now what .. Austria or Australia? the subject says "austria", the
> > content "australia" ....
> >
> > there are no cangaroos in austria, as a famous t-shirt says! ;-)
>
> Well of course not! Austria is PACKED with Kangaroos but.

Austria is the only land-locked island in the
whole world.

--oTTo--

Joseph Michael Bay

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Feb 7, 2001, 7:40:08 PM2/7/01
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Beable van Polasm <bea...@my-deja.com> writes:

>Michael Hellwig <the...@deadspam.com> writes:
>> Xcott Craver <sacr...@use.my.princeton.address> wrote:
>> > [Australia Australia Australia Australia we love you AMEN!]

>> now what .. Austria or Australia? the subject says "austria", the
>> content "australia" ....

>> there are no cangaroos in austria, as a famous t-shirt says! ;-)

>Well of course not! Austria is PACKED with Kangaroos but.

I glaub, I muass speibn in the great Pacific Sea.

Xcott Craver

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Feb 7, 2001, 7:58:08 PM2/7/01
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Otto Bahn <JGA...@khepburn.mc.duke.edu> wrote:
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>Austria is the only land-locked island in the
>whole world.

Yeah, those nutty Americans. One week we can't find a country
on a map. Next week, we drop in a bunch of people for a season
of Survivor, and from then on we think's it's an island.

>--oTTo--
-S

Beable van Polasm

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Feb 7, 2001, 8:32:42 PM2/7/01
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You probably don't get the same interviews in USAia that they show
in Austria. The producer of Survivor was on TeeVee and said:
'A lot of you Aussies will watch the show and think "That's not
the real outback" and I say "Sure, it's not because the real
outback would be too tough. But you've gotta admit, the conditions
on the show are still pretty damn tough!"'. So watch out for fake
rocks.

cheers
Beable van Polasm
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Aren't we cutting off our undifferentiated extensions to spite our tentacles!?
-- Peter Willard
IQC 78189333 http://members.nbci.com/_______/index.html

Otto Bahn

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Feb 8, 2001, 1:43:03 PM2/8/01
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Beable van Polasm wrote:
>
> Caj@B_r_a_i_n_H_z.c_o_m (Xcott Craver) writes:
> > Otto Bahn <JGA...@khepburn.mc.duke.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >Austria is the only land-locked island in the
> > >whole world.
> >
> > Yeah, those nutty Americans. One week we can't find a country
> > on a map. Next week, we drop in a bunch of people for a season
> > of Survivor, and from then on we think's it's an island.
>
> You probably don't get the same interviews in USAia that they show
> in Austria. The producer of Survivor was on TeeVee and said:
> 'A lot of you Aussies will watch the show and think "That's not
> the real outback" and I say "Sure, it's not because the real
> outback would be too tough. But you've gotta admit, the conditions
> on the show are still pretty damn tough!"'. So watch out for fake
> rocks.

I wish you had told me that YESTERDAY.

Apparently fake rocks are still pretty heavy 'n
hard.

--oTTo

Glenn Knickerbocker

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Feb 8, 2001, 4:14:18 PM2/8/01
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Otto Bahn wrote:
> Austria is the only land-locked island in the
> whole world.

AHEM. Didn't I just say I was about to embark on a production of The
Gondoliers? Don't you know that honor is reserved for Barataria?
Honestly.

ŹR

Xcott Craver

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Feb 9, 2001, 5:19:33 AM2/9/01
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Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
>
>AHEM. Didn't I just say I was about to embark on a production of The
>Gondoliers? Don't you know that honor is reserved for Barataria?

I thought gondoliers was caused by a virus.
-S

Jeremy Impson

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Feb 11, 2001, 3:36:15 PM2/11/01
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No, that's Langoliers.


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