I scream for ice cream!
Joe Manfre
Today I went to one of the several supermarkets in my neighborhood
and I bought a type of Ben & Jerry's ice cream called "Bovinity
Divinity." I bought it mainly because the description on the
carton reminded me of the sort of run-on sentences that Kibologists
like to post:
"Milk Chocolate Ice Cream & White Fudge Cows Swirled
With White Chocolate Ice Cream & Dark Fudge Cows"
That's right, it actually has little cow-shaped chocolate candies
mixed in the ice cream!
Then, while I was waiting in line, in front of me was this little
girl who was talking to two women who I think were her mother and
big sister. And the little girl was babbling on and on the way
little kids do. But the weird thing was the way she kept switching
back and forth between English and Spanish without even seeming
to notice that she was changing languages every five or six words.
It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
JM
--
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"It had become a little too uncomfortable for them sitting on
all that classified data once they had been explicitly fingered."
-- Carol Paliwoda, regarding "those bastards"
Ben Wolfson
>Then, while I was waiting in line, in front of me was this little
>girl who was talking to two women who I think were her mother and
>big sister. And the little girl was babbling on and on the way
>little kids do. But the weird thing was the way she kept switching
>back and forth between English and Spanish without even seeming
>to notice that she was changing languages every five or six words.
>
>It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
>Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
A lot of my asian-style friends, when talking to their parents, talk some
kind of asian-talk at them (their parents) but occasionally throw in
english words, and it sounds funny.
But I guess the answer to your question is "no".
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Human on my faithless arm
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Poot Rootbeer
>But the weird thing was the way she kept switching
>back and forth between English and Spanish without even seeming
>to notice that she was changing languages every five or six words.
>
>It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
>Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
Gerardo, "Rico Suave".
-Poot
I am sure glad das ich spreche nicht im
lenguas diversas en la same sentence!
Andrew Pearson
>
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:57:55 GMT, man...@flash.net (Joe Manfre) wrote:
>
> >Then, while I was waiting in line, in front of me was this little
> >girl who was talking to two women who I think were her mother and
> >big sister. And the little girl was babbling on and on the way
> >back and forth between English and Spanish without even seeming
> >to notice that she was changing languages every five or six words.
> >
> >It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
> >Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
>
Yeah loads of times. My ex and his family switch languages the
way a flock of sparrows changes direction on the wing. All at
once, synchronised somewhow. They go from Malay to Mandarin to
Hokkien and back via English and quite often on mid sentence.
Last time I was in Scotland, I was in the Bella Napoli on Hanover
Street (?) - off George street anyway, and there were two young
lasses bedind the counter who were switching back and forwards
between Italian and English with a strong Scots accent.
Andrew Pearson.
--
In article <3978CFF0...@my-deja.com.guacamole>,
stac...@my-deja.com.guacamole said:
> Goldfish don't fit through the air nozzle of most erotic dolls.
Glenn Knickerbocker
>little kids do. But the weird thing was the way she kept switching
>back and forth between English and Spanish without even seeming
>to notice that she was changing languages every five or six words.
A Georgian friend of mine who speaks no Georgian married a Georgian woman
who spoke little English at the time. They can go through three languages
in a two-word sentence, such as "Sweetie-ko, pridi!" It's incredible.
They'll turn Georgian nouns into English verbs and then conjugate them in
Russian and not once have to stop to figure out what the other just said.
Hearing him explain the dishes on a Vietnamese menu was just unimaginable.
ŹR http://www.bestweb.net/~notr/cats "Would you like to watch a movie
about George Wendt while eating Chinese food with a cat?"--Andy Simmons
Joe Manfre
>> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:57:55 GMT, man...@flash.net (Joe Manfre) wrote:
>> >It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
>> >Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
>>
>
>Yeah loads of times. My ex and his family switch languages the
>way a flock of sparrows changes direction on the wing. All at
>once, synchronised somewhow. They go from Malay to Mandarin to
>Hokkien and back via English and quite often on mid sentence.
That sounds interesting -- it makes me think of the teenagers
who work at the Super X-Pensive Convenience Mart downstairs in
my apartment building. I guess they are the son and daughter
of the middle-aged Korean couple that owns the store. Anyway,
they speak to me in English all the time from behind the
bulletproof glass that is between me and them, and their English
is pretty straightforwardly American-accented except that
sometimes they put the stresses on the wrong syllables of words.
But when they have to ask their parents what the prices of the
items I'm trying to buy are (the Super X-Pensive Convenience Mart
does not label any of the items with prices), they speak to their
parents in rapid-fire Korean with some English words mixed in.
Kind of like what MEAN BEN WOLFSON described in his post. It's
got kind of an interesting sound to it.
>In article <3978CFF0...@my-deja.com.guacamole>,
>stac...@my-deja.com.guacamole said:
>> Goldfish don't fit through the air nozzle of most erotic dolls.
Do you think if Stacia and I manage to hang out at the ARKPLE together
in Boston, she will be willing to teach me to tap dance? That
would be a dream come true.
The Avocado Avenger
>
> Today I went to one of the several supermarkets in my neighborhood
> and I bought a type of Ben & Jerry's ice cream called "Bovinity
> Divinity." I bought it mainly because the description on the
> carton reminded me of the sort of run-on sentences that Kibologists
> like to post:
>
> "Milk Chocolate Ice Cream & White Fudge Cows Swirled
> With White Chocolate Ice Cream & Dark Fudge Cows"
>
> That's right, it actually has little cow-shaped chocolate candies
> mixed in the ice cream!
Mmm. Sounds like an even better version of Phish Food. Except
with cows.
Ben & Jerry's ice cream is evil, because each little pint thingie
is something like 20 servings of 1,000,000 calories each. But the
widdle fudgie chunks of fish/cows are worth it, man.
--
Stacia * The Avocado Avenger * "Life is a tale told by an idiot
stac...@my-deja.com * Full of sound and fury,
De-Guacamoled for your convenience * Signifying my pants."
Andrew Pearson
>
> apea...@pt.lu (Andrew Pearson) wrote:
>
> >> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:57:55 GMT, man...@flash.net (Joe Manfre) wrote:
Realtime Usenet lives! You responded to that post and it arrived
here before I'd gone offline.
> >> >It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
> >> >Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
> >>
> >
> >Yeah loads of times. My ex and his family switch languages the
> >way a flock of sparrows changes direction on the wing. All at
> >once, synchronised somewhow. They go from Malay to Mandarin to
> >Hokkien and back via English and quite often on mid sentence.
>
> That sounds interesting -- it makes me think of the teenagers
> who work at the Super X-Pensive Convenience Mart downstairs in
> my apartment building. I guess they are the son and daughter
> of the middle-aged Korean couple that owns the store. Anyway,
> they speak to me in English all the time from behind the
> bulletproof glass that is between me and them, and their English
> is pretty straightforwardly American-accented except that
> sometimes they put the stresses on the wrong syllables of words.
>
Maybe my ex should have been kept behind bulletproof glass...
I really must go down to the Chinese supermarket and see if they
mix French and Cantonese the way the folks at you Convenience
mart mix it up with Korean, and it will be a good chance to get
some Lychee drinks as well. Actually, digressing, I remember
somewhere in Indonesia once speaking a little bit of French for
this really nice Chinese guy. He thought it was seriously wierd
hearing a European speak anything other than English. But then my
French is pretty funny. I think some people at work tell their
families to ring my extension "by mistake" just for a laugh.
Anyway, back to the ex, his family and the language switching; I
never learned any Hokkien apart from a few very basic things, but
I got so I could tell when they'd switched from one version of
Chinese to another by the sound of it.
Some Hokkien expressions are fun when translated literally into
English, like "stand under the bucket" for "take a shower". He
who must be obeyed used to speak good English but with a lot of
fairly odd phrases which were literal translations from Hokkien
or Malay, and indstead of his English getting better, I gradually
picked up the expressions that he used and finished up speaking
"English as a second language".
>
> >In article <3978CFF0...@my-deja.com.guacamole>,
> >stac...@my-deja.com.guacamole said:
> >> Goldfish don't fit through the air nozzle of most erotic dolls.
>
> Do you think if Stacia and I manage to hang out at the ARKPLE together
> in Boston, she will be willing to teach me to tap dance? That
> would be a dream come true.
>
> JM
>
Um. Well. I don't really know. Maybe she would if you asked
nicely. I bet you can ask really nicely too. Why not give ti a
try? Have you got the shoes with the metal parts on the soles to
make it noisier?
--
Ben Wolfson
>Andrew Pearson.
HEY PAL!!! YOU FOLLOW UP TO MY ARTICLES, YOU'D BEST RESPOND TO
-->me<--!!!1!
--
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Now look upon me, for I am become death, destroyer of worlds.
Ben Wolfson
>Kind of like what MEAN BEN WOLFSON described in his post. It's
See, Andrew Pearson? Jesus Manfire's got sort of the right idea: As is
proper for a post whose __bases__ tuple contains an article whut was writ
by -->me<--, he at least *references* my post.
--
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"Oh no! I'm almost out of Hit Points! Al-Mu'id! I choose you!"
-- jmbay, in ark
Ben Wolfson
>-Poot
>I am sure glad das ich spreche nicht im
>lenguas diversas en la same sentence!
ok, so HERE'S THE DEAL. I used to able to say some stuff in Latin, which
makes sense because I've taken for years of it, yes? But last year I was
also taking German 2, and my ability to compose in Latin has suffered
enormously. So now when I try to do that I almost always end up putting
German words in Latin sentences, or vice versa, even though my vocabulary
in either is pretty limited.
--
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Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
-- Samuel Johnson
pete
[snip]
> "Bovinity Divinity."
[snip]
HOLY COW!
--
pete
Joe Manfre
>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:55:37 GMT, man...@flash.net (Joe Manfre) wrote:
>
>>Kind of like what MEAN BEN WOLFSON described in his post. It's
>
>See, Andrew Pearson? Jesus Manfire's got sort of the right idea: As is
>proper for a post whose __bases__ tuple contains an article whut was writ
>by -->me<--, he at least *references* my post.
This would be a good time to mention how, during my last year of
college, I shared an apartment with this guy who always claimed to
be from Hong Kong. But actually he was from Macau. Anyway, his
native language was Cantonese, and he had a girlfriend who was from
Vietnam, and English was the only language they both spoke, so
they seemed to have an interesting time communicating with one
another.
He could understand Mandarin fairly well, and that was the native
language of most of the Chinese students at the school, but he
didn't like them because they all worked too hard at their studies
and they didn't like to bum around as much as he did. So when they
would try to hang out with him, he would pretend that he couldn't
understand Mandarin so they would leave him alone.
He was one of the damndest people I've ever met. I miss him.
Andrew Pearson
>
> rumju...@cryptarchy.org (Ben Wolfson) wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:55:37 GMT, man...@flash.net (Joe Manfre) wrote:
> >
> >>Kind of like what MEAN BEN WOLFSON described in his post. It's
> >
> >See, Andrew Pearson? Jesus Manfire's got sort of the right idea: As is
> >proper for a post whose __bases__ tuple contains an article whut was writ
> >by -->me<--, he at least *references* my post.
>
Ah yes, but few people can match the courtly politesse of Joe Manfre.
And he seems to ahve a priority news feed straight here - your
comments only showed up as quoted by JM, and I can't find them on
deja or remarq yet. Maybe Joe is an AI and part of the net.
But I digress.
The ice cream advert post was fab Mean B. Wolfson, fab but I
think it had some teeth marks on it by the time it got here. But
what's a "bases tuple"?
Also the fact that you Americans are waking up means that it's
way past my bedtime.
Crgre Jvyyneq
19:59:21 GMT]
>Ben & Jerry's ice cream is evil, because
[...]
it's made of COW PUS???!!1! HTH!
--
Peter Willard http://www.drizzle.com/~petew
``The fact that inhumanity is coupled with so much stupidity
makes one feel almost optimistic in a dangerous way.'' -Erich
Hecke
Eurakarte
Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:57:55 GMT, man...@flash.net (Joe Manfre) :
>Today I went to one of the several supermarkets in my neighborhood
>and I bought a type of Ben & Jerry's ice cream called "Bovinity
>Divinity."
Mmmm.... sacred cow.
>I bought it mainly because the description on the carton reminded
>me of the sort of run-on sentences that Kibologists like to post:
>
> "Milk Chocolate Ice Cream & White Fudge Cows Swirled
> With White Chocolate Ice Cream & Dark Fudge Cows"
>
>That's right, it actually has little cow-shaped chocolate candies
>mixed in the ice cream!
How do you know those aren't RAT POISON PELLETS!
>Then, while I was waiting in line, in front of me was this little
>girl who was talking to two women who I think were her mother and
>big sister. And the little girl was babbling on and on the way
[We interrupt this reply to bring you a special announcement]
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[We now return you to our regularly scheduled reply.]
>little kids do. But the weird thing was the way she kept switching
>back and forth between English and Spanish without even seeming
>to notice that she was changing languages every five or six words.
>
>It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
>Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
I once heard a cabbage proclaim itself the messiah. But then I
ate it. But I never heard a cabbage speak in Spanish. That would
be WEIRD.
//Eurakarte
Bow before the Prince of Plankton.
Crgre Jvyyneq
GMT]
>back and forth between English and Spanish without even
>seeming to notice that she was changing languages every five
>or six words.
>
See if you can find a news program from the Philipines on your
teeveeset sometime, if this kind of thing suits you.
>It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of
>it. Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
>
I've only recently heard people "speaking", so I'm sure about
this "audio recording" you wrote about in that sentence. I'm
just constantly amazed and humiliated when people from distant
lands speak perfect English. Thank you! US PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
for making me catastrophically incompetent at everything I
would've liked to have been good at.
red
Manfre) wrote:
> It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
> Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
It's called code switching. In Arizona, you practically can't go
anywhere WITHOUT hearing it.
Having taken lots and lots of Spanish in school, I can actually
understand what they mean and it's rather amusing to listen to whole
conversations go on like that.
red
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Crgre Jvyyneq
GMT]
>
>Gerardo, "Rico Suave".
>
Richie Valens "La Bamba"
Crgre Jvyyneq
GMT]
>
>It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of
>it. Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
>
English is already mixed-up like that, with your Saxon and your
Angles and your NORMAN and whatnot. Kind of like the difference
between yogurt you get to stir and the pre-mixed cow
pus^H^H^H^H^H^H yougurt.
One time, on the show that replaced the Art Bell show, this k00k
was telling people about his diet that would cure all disease
and it was mostly like the Juiceman diet of all raw
veggibibbbibbbibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbibbbibbibibibbbbibbbbbbbbbbbbbbbib
bibibbbibbbbibbibibbibibibibibbbbbbbbbbibibibibibibbbibbbibbbble
s, except it had yogurt (==COW PUS) in it as the main EVENT and
the guy who is not Art Bell, but who replaced Art Bell on the
show that is not the Art Bell show anymore said, "BUT YOGURT IS
MADE OF COW MILK???" and the k00k said "N'UH-UH!!! IS NOT!!!
LIAR!!! SHARKS DON'T GET CANCER!!! EAT SHARK!!!" Well, not like
that exactly, he said something about bacteria and gravity and
continued with his spiel without further interruptions from the
guy who is not Art Bell and has a really funny accent. Maybe he
is from Long Island? Anyone know? He says he lives in Seattle,
but that's not a Seattle accent NO WAY is that a Seattle accent
(which is the same as a Scandanavian accent without the
Scandanavian part). BUT I DIGRESS.
Steve Lord
> On 30 Jul 2000 19:38:57 GMT, po...@dork.com (Poot Rootbeer) wrote:
>
> >-Poot
> >I am sure glad das ich spreche nicht im
> >lenguas diversas en la same sentence!
>
> ok, so HERE'S THE DEAL. I used to able to say some stuff in Latin, which
> makes sense because I've taken for years of it, yes? But last year I was
> also taking German 2, and my ability to compose in Latin has suffered
> enormously. So now when I try to do that I almost always end up putting
> German words in Latin sentences, or vice versa, even though my vocabulary
> in either is pretty limited.
Taking several (5) years of Spanish in high school, then going into an
elementary German I class first thing in the morning, first term of my
freshman year of college also led to some interesting pronunciation.
Steve "Spanman? Germish?" L
Steve Lord
> Joe Manfre wrote:
> >
> > Today I went to one of the several supermarkets in my neighborhood
> > and I bought a type of Ben & Jerry's ice cream called "Bovinity
> > Divinity." I bought it mainly because the description on the
> > carton reminded me of the sort of run-on sentences that Kibologists
> > like to post:
> >
> > "Milk Chocolate Ice Cream & White Fudge Cows Swirled
> > With White Chocolate Ice Cream & Dark Fudge Cows"
> >
> > That's right, it actually has little cow-shaped chocolate candies
> > mixed in the ice cream!
>
> Mmm. Sounds like an even better version of Phish Food. Except
> with cows.
> Ben & Jerry's ice cream is evil, because each little pint thingie
> is something like 20 servings of 1,000,000 calories each. But the
> widdle fudgie chunks of fish/cows are worth it, man.
Warning: may cause abdominal distention.
*thinks* That would be the WORST product _ever_ -- new Super Colon Blow
Ice Cream. At least it wouldn't go straight _to_ your hips, it'd go
straight _through_ your hips :)
Steve L
Plorkwort
somehow trn seems to have lost replying function, and catapulted
(trebucheted?) me directly into pico.
yeah, my family speaks a mixture of English/Spanish/French/Russian/Ancient
Greek/Yiddish/Ladino/Japanese. It tends to confuse the various host
students we take in from Russia/Georgia/Ukraine/Japan. Also none of them
like our food.
Plorkwort
--
Septimus: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning,
we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Thomasina: Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
--Tom Stoppard, _Arcadia_
--
Septimus: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning,
we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Thomasina: Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
-Tom Stoppard, _Arcadia_
pete
[snip]
> But the weird thing was the way she kept switching
> to notice that she was changing languages every five or six words.
>
> Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
I don't know why it took me so long to remember this,
but my deletable expletives are ALWAYS in Spanish.
I do it a lot, loud and in public, without ever thinking about it.
I rarely get feedback from it and when I do it's never negative.
When I was in California, I found out that unlike all other hispanics,
most Chicanos were unfamiliar with "COÑO", which I thought was strange
since out of all the various varieties of hispanics that I've met,
Chicanos seem to me, the most artistic when it comes to swearing.
The one I use the most is "¡Ay carajo!"
Soemtimes, when I'm anxious, I'll do a mantra:
"coño carajo puta, coño carajo puta, coño carajo puta ..."
If it wasn't for the fact
that most people around here don't know Spanish,
I think I would have been diagnosed with Tourette's, a long time ago.
About ten years ago, a Peruvian student heard me doing my "coño" thing
in the computer lab at SUNY Binghamton. He thought it was funny.
The only other time I remember getting called on it,
was when I was playing chess in jail with somebody from New York City.
And again, it was just funny.
Then I went back to cell and did push ups, just like on TV!
--
pete
Mark Hill
> I am sure glad das ich spreche nicht im
> lenguas diversas en la same sentence!
Oh, look, it's a whole sentence in Esperanto.
The Avocado Avenger
> I find that a half-pint of Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Dazs vanilla ice
> cream and a bottle of GOOD root beer (that is, IBC, Stewart's, Henry
> Weinhard, &c &c &c) make an excellent combination.
What do they pry you off the ceiling with, a spatula?
Crgre Jvyyneq
GMT]
>
>yeah, my family speaks a mixture of
>English/Spanish/French/Russian/Ancient
>Greek/Yiddish/Ladino/Japanese.
You guys would love Persian, Armenian and Sanskrit, but Mandarin
would be even more fun and useful! HTH!
>It tends to confuse the
>various host students we take in from
>Russia/Georgia/Ukraine/Japan. Also none of them like our
>food.
Quit putting wasabi and matzo in the paella? Are you using an
*egg* matzo?
Joe Manfre
It's only Esperanto if you say the first half of the sentence
with your back to the camera, then whirl around before you
finish the sentence.
Nick Bensema
Crgre Jvyyneq <petew+...@drizzle.com> wrote:
>[Joe Manfre, alt.religion.kibology, Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:57:55
>GMT]
>>back and forth between English and Spanish without even
>>seeming to notice that she was changing languages every five
>>or six words.
>
>lands speak perfect English. Thank you! US PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
>for making me catastrophically incompetent at everything I
>would've liked to have been good at.
I reiterate...
I saw the clerk at 7-Elevne switch between helping the guy in front of
me in Spanish, and helping me in English. I was all, "If I could do that
I would be RICH! Not working in a 7-Eleven!"
When I travel overseas, I'm going to be an inarticulate tourist bastard.
Unlike that guy from India I met in Boston, who described the merits of
meditation in great detail, and defeated me mercilessly in his first
thumb war.
--
Nick Bensema <ni...@io.com> ICQ#2135445
```` ``````` ``````````````
GAME OVER HIGH SCORE ENTER YOUR INITIALS
Alistair Gale
>yeah, my family speaks a mixture of English/Spanish/French/Russian/Ancient
>students we take in from Russia/Georgia/Ukraine/Japan. Also none of them
>like our food.
>
If you lost the brit part, you have the foundation for an excellent cuisine.
--
alistair
BA: "Ohh, I want to bed down with a dozen concubines."
Baldrick:" Wouldn't that be all prickly?"
Ben Coakley
<stac...@my-deja.com> slipped this one past the censors:
> Ben & Jerry's ice cream is evil, because each little pint thingie
>is something like 20 servings of 1,000,000 calories each. But the
>widdle fudgie chunks of fish/cows are worth it, man.
Augggh. In high school, when I had two final exams on the same day, I used
to eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's for lunch. I am astonished that I
survived. I couldn't possible do that today.
Strangely, I didn't even start gaining huge amounts of weight until three
years later. That Ben & Jerry's is strong stuff.
--
Ben Coakley b...@twcny.rr.com
Earl Grey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ma Baker, Darjeeling, whatever.
-- Craig the Dancing Manager, Lovely
Ben Wolfson
wrote:
>[re: polyglotism]
>somehow trn seems to have lost replying function, and catapulted
>(trebucheted?) me directly into pico.
Yay trebuchets! I built a treb. It launched a small bean bag 153 feet for
FIRST PLACE, and fit within a 3'x3' box! <--- KA
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The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the
equinox?
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Ben Wolfson
>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Ben Wolfson wrote:
>
>> On 30 Jul 2000 19:38:57 GMT, po...@dork.com (Poot Rootbeer) wrote:
>>
>> >-Poot
>> >I am sure glad das ich spreche nicht im
>> >lenguas diversas en la same sentence!
>>
>> ok, so HERE'S THE DEAL. I used to able to say some stuff in Latin, which
>> makes sense because I've taken for years of it, yes? But last year I was
>> also taking German 2, and my ability to compose in Latin has suffered
>> enormously. So now when I try to do that I almost always end up putting
>> German words in Latin sentences, or vice versa, even though my vocabulary
>> in either is pretty limited.
>
>Taking several (5) years of Spanish in high school, then going into an
>elementary German I class first thing in the morning, first term of my
>freshman year of college also led to some interesting pronunciation.
The same thing happened to one of my friends who was teaching himself
Japanese, except it also infected his German grammar.
--
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler's page of dumbth: members.home.net/rumjuggler
Is this going to be another episode where you have to be sodomized with the
Clue Branch before you shut up and admit you're wrong?
-- John S. Novak III, the Humblest Man on the Net.
Ben Wolfson
>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:41:58 GMT, Plorkwort wrote:
>>yeah, my family speaks a mixture of English/Spanish/French/Russian/Ancient
>>Greek/Yiddish/Ladino/Japanese. It tends to confuse the various host
>>students we take in from Russia/Georgia/Ukraine/Japan. Also none of them
>>like our food.
>>
>
>If you lost the brit part, you have the foundation for an excellent cuisine.
What are you talking about? I love british food. Nothing like a good
curry.
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He still loves life,
But O O O O how he wishes
The good Lord would take him.
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Ben Wolfson
>*thinks* That would be the WORST product _ever_ -- new Super Colon Blow
>Ice Cream. At least it wouldn't go straight _to_ your hips, it'd go
>straight _through_ your hips :)
Steve Lord's real name is Jenna Yokoyama, and she used to work at a juice
bar.
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Ben Wolfson
>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:59:21 -0500, The Avocado Avenger
><stac...@my-deja.com> slipped this one past the censors:
>
>> Ben & Jerry's ice cream is evil, because each little pint thingie
>>is something like 20 servings of 1,000,000 calories each. But the
>>widdle fudgie chunks of fish/cows are worth it, man.
>
>Augggh. In high school, when I had two final exams on the same day, I used
>to eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's for lunch. I am astonished that I
>survived. I couldn't possible do that today.
>
>Strangely, I didn't even start gaining huge amounts of weight until three
>years later. That Ben & Jerry's is strong stuff.
I find that a half-pint of Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Dazs vanilla ice cream
and a bottle of GOOD root beer (that is, IBC, Stewart's, Henry Weinhard, &c
&c &c) make an excellent combination.
--
Poot Rootbeer
>On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:51:45 GMT, bms...@home.FNARR.com (Brad) wrote:
>>I want bourbon flavored ice cream. Tip o' the hat to Niven.
>I want corn-flavored ice cream.
I want Corn and Cheese Swirl With Macapuno String ice cream, but it's
fuggen $8.99 a half gallon!
-Poot
Mark Hill
> mh...@epicentre.net (Mark Hill) wrote:
>
> >po...@dork.com (Poot Rootbeer) writes:
> >> lenguas diversas en la same sentence!
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> It's only Esperanto if you say the first half of the sentence
> with your back to the camera, then whirl around before you
> finish the sentence.
well, or in a pinch you can just add some more o's and a's to the ends of
the words
Ben Wolfson
<stac...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>Ben Wolfson wrote:
>
>> I find that a half-pint of Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Dazs vanilla ice
>> cream and a bottle of GOOD root beer (that is, IBC, Stewart's, Henry
>> Weinhard, &c &c &c) make an excellent combination.
>
> What do they pry you off the ceiling with, a spatula?
I also find that jumping up and down is an excellent way to spend time.
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Human on my faithless arm
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Joe Manfre
>I find that a half-pint of Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Dazs vanilla ice cream
>and a bottle of GOOD root beer (that is, IBC, Stewart's, Henry Weinhard, &c
>&c &c) make an excellent combination.
I think you know who to turn to if you want a long, long list of
the world's finest root beers...
Mr. A. Plutonium has been known to fill out his posts with the
names of many of his favorite root beers, and how he likes to
have them with such delicacies as microwaved spaghetti with sardines
and mushroom sauce and blended cheeses...
Glenn Knickerbocker
>If you lost the brit part, you have the foundation for an excellent cuisine.
I actually have a cookbook called "Great British Cooking: The World's
Best-Kept Secret." None of it, of course, is from south central England.
ŹR http://www.bestweb.net/~notr/cats "Would you like to watch a movie
about George Wendt while eating Chinese food with a cat?"--Andy Simmons
Alistair Gale
>On 31 Jul 2000 01:39:39 GMT, Alis...@caribsurf.com (Alistair Gale) wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:41:58 GMT, Plorkwort wrote:
>>>yeah, my family speaks a mixture of English/Spanish/French/Russian/Ancient
>>>Greek/Yiddish/Ladino/Japanese. It tends to confuse the various host
>>>students we take in from Russia/Georgia/Ukraine/Japan. Also none of them
>>>like our food.
>>>
>>
>
>curry.
Remember, you made me do this:
Spotted Dick
Toad in the Hole
Welsh Rabbit (rarebit is for idjits)
I pause here to check my numbered Austrian bank acct.
If the balance has not increased by $5m euros (denominated in
0.25c Euro paper tokens) by Tuesday then I will have no other
recourse than mentioning: Bubble and Squeak..........
FEAR ME, I AM DEATH DESTROYER OF WORLDS, and my parking has been validated.
(BTW do a websearch on spotted dick and
k9netuk.users.netlink.co.uk/breed/owndal.html
(something about Dalmations) is near the top of the list.)
--
alistair
Ah, Blackadder. Started talking to yourself, I see.
Yes...it's the only way I can be assured of intelligent conversation.
-- Melchett and Edmund : Potato
Plorkwort
>
>Yay trebuchets! I built a treb. It launched a small bean bag 153 feet for
>FIRST PLACE, and fit within a 3'x3' box! <--- KA
for Mass. JCL (which I was not a part of, although I got sucked into
building their trebuchet), we built one that launched flaming marshmallows
a few feet. The hardest part was taking it to and from competitions on
the T.
Plorkwort
--
Eli M. Balin
Ben Wolfson <rumju...@cryptarchy.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:31:23 -0400, Steve Lord <sl...@wpi.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Taking several (5) years of Spanish in high school, then going into an
>>elementary German I class first thing in the morning, first term of my
>>freshman year of college also led to some interesting pronunciation.
>
>The same thing happened to one of my friends who was teaching himself
>Japanese, except it also infected his German grammar.
I did poorly in French, as under exam conditions, I could only remember
the five years of Italian I'd taken seven years earlier.
Strangely, during the year I was learning Mandarin, I found myself
pronouncing things in a French accent.
--
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"I hope the Spice Girls never get a cannon." - James "Kibo" Parry
monty_p
>
>Last time I was in Scotland, I was in the Bella Napoli on
Hanover
>Street (?) - off George street anyway, and there were two young
>lasses bedind the counter who were switching back and forwards
>between Italian and English with a strong Scots accent.
That'd be the Bar Napoli, Bob. An excellent choice, and open
until 3am for cozze marinara.
Also, not far from there one can see the hill behind Stefan
Kapusniak.
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Ben Wolfson
>On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:05:18 GMT, Ben Wolfson <rumju...@cryptarchy.org> wrote:
>>On 31 Jul 2000 01:39:39 GMT, Alis...@caribsurf.com (Alistair Gale) wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:41:58 GMT, Plorkwort wrote:
>>>>yeah, my family speaks a mixture of English/Spanish/French/Russian/Ancient
>>>>Greek/Yiddish/Ladino/Japanese. It tends to confuse the various host
>>>>students we take in from Russia/Georgia/Ukraine/Japan. Also none of them
>>>>like our food.
>>>>
>>>
>>>If you lost the brit part, you have the foundation for an excellent cuisine.
>>
>>What are you talking about? I love british food. Nothing like a good
>>curry.
>
>Remember, you made me do this:
> Spotted Dick
> Toad in the Hole
> Welsh Rabbit (rarebit is for idjits)
Nononono--I said *british* food. You know, curry, rogan josh, naan, raita,
that kind of stuff.
--
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Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.
-- George Meredith, "Lucifer in Starlight"
Ben Wolfson
wrote:
>The moving finger of Ben Wolfson wrote <rumju...@cryptarchy.org:
>>
>>Yay trebuchets! I built a treb. It launched a small bean bag 153 feet for
>>FIRST PLACE, and fit within a 3'x3' box! <--- KA
>
>for Mass. JCL (which I was not a part of, although I got sucked into
>building their trebuchet), we built one that launched flaming marshmallows
>a few feet. The hardest part was taking it to and from competitions on
>the T.
One that was intended to lauch flaming marshmallows a few feet, or just
did?
Marshmallows seem like an odd choice for ammunition, seeing as how they're
all light and poofy.
--
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like.. even after Tank Girl.. I was like ... "oh.. that was okay".. but
then I hit reality and thought "no.. it wasn't. it sucked the crud out of
an ostrich's ass.. it was so bad. shut up.. live with it."
-- Bao Doan
Ben Wolfson
>rumju...@cryptarchy.org (Ben Wolfson) wrote:
>
>
>>I find that a half-pint of Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Dazs vanilla ice cream
>>and a bottle of GOOD root beer (that is, IBC, Stewart's, Henry Weinhard, &c
>>&c &c) make an excellent combination.
>
>
>I think you know who to turn to if you want a long, long list of
>the world's finest root beers...
>
>Mr. A. Plutonium has been known to fill out his posts with the
>names of many of his favorite root beers,
I knew he couldn't be all bad.
Trader Joe's also makes a mean root beer.
However, Mug sucks, and A&W is too sweet. Additionally, Barq's is
middle-of-the-road, but bad for the purposes of floats, I think.
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If only you knew the things I have seen in the darkness of the night.
-- Maurits Cornelius Escher
Darla Vladschyk
<rumju...@cryptarchy.org> claimed:
>...Mug sucks, and A&W is too sweet. Additionally, Barq's is
>middle-of-the-road, but bad for the purposes of floats, I think.
If you can't get Dr. Brown's, then Hires Root Beer is the best.
That is all.
Darla
(except to say that there is no decent junk food west of the
Mississippi.)
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching." ---Satchel Paige
Joe Manfre
>However, Mug sucks, and A&W is too sweet. Additionally, Barq's is
>middle-of-the-road, but bad for the purposes of floats, I think.
Barq's is probably the best of the readily available stuff.
Have you ever had Stewart's at an actual Stewart's Root Beer
hamburger stand? That is really something. They also sell
those steamed hamburgers, the ones you have to eat with a fork
because the meat doesn't really cling together as on a fried
or grilled burger.
My favorite bottled stuff I've had lately is Dominion, which is
put out by a beer microbrewery in Virginia. I don't know if they
actually make it, though. Kibo probably knows.
Steve Lord
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:27:30 -0400, Steve Lord <sl...@wpi.edu> wrote:
>
> >*thinks* That would be the WORST product _ever_ -- new Super Colon Blow
> >Ice Cream. At least it wouldn't go straight _to_ your hips, it'd go
> >straight _through_ your hips :)
>
> Steve Lord's real name is Jenna Yokoyama, and she used to work at a juice
> bar.
*Looks at his beard and moustache in the mirror* That's news to me. When
did I change my name and gender, Ben?
Steve L
Ben Wolfson
When you mentioned "Colon Blow Ice Cream".
Jenna, who worked at a juice bar, had an idea for a smoothie called "Colon
Blow" that involved a lot of wheat grass, among other things I can't
remember at the moment and probably never will.
--
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Your disguise of genuine camouflage combat Christ-skin trousers doesn't
fool us.
-- Kapusniak, Stefan e
The Avocado Avenger
> However, Mug sucks,
Mug is good! Mug is really not all bad! Mug is cheap!
One summer, CS Ed and I gained 147 pounds each by eating nothing
but root beer floats made with Mug. It's not all bad. Bad root beer
is Shasta, especially Shasta diet, or any of the local lable stuff
around here.
ICB or whatever they call it is OK, it's s'posed to be "gourmet
root beer" (ooooooooooooh), but it tastes all watery and flat and
shit. But they put it in brown bottles and sell it for $2 so it's
gotta be good, right?
> Additionally, Barq's is
> middle-of-the-road, but bad for the purposes of floats, I think.
For ice cream to float, the soft drink must have lots and lots of
vegetable oil. Try Mountain Dew, and get back to us.
SSC: I used to bug my parents until they bought me a bottle of
local-brand chocolate creme soda every time we went to the grocery
store. Now they don't make it, and Chocolate Moose is just not the
same. Waaah!
--
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De-Guacamoled for your convenience * Signifying my pants."
Steve Lord
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:54:52 -0400, Steve Lord <sl...@wpi.edu> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Ben Wolfson wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:27:30 -0400, Steve Lord <sl...@wpi.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> >*thinks* That would be the WORST product _ever_ -- new Super Colon Blow
> >> >Ice Cream. At least it wouldn't go straight _to_ your hips, it'd go
> >> >straight _through_ your hips :)
> >>
> >> Steve Lord's real name is Jenna Yokoyama, and she used to work at a juice
> >> bar.
> >
> >*Looks at his beard and moustache in the mirror* That's news to me. When
> >did I change my name and gender, Ben?
>
> When you mentioned "Colon Blow Ice Cream".
It seemed to be a logical offspring of the thread about Ben & Jerry's Ice
Cream of 1,000,000 Calories.
Of course, maybe I've just written way too much LaTeX recently for my mind
to be anything but warped.
> Jenna, who worked at a juice bar, had an idea for a smoothie called "Colon
> Blow" that involved a lot of wheat grass, among other things I can't
> remember at the moment and probably never will.
Isn't selective memory loss wonderful at times? :)
Steve L
pete
>
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:41:58 GMT, aswe...@midway.uchicago.edu (Plorkwort)
> wrote:
>
> >[re: polyglotism]
> >somehow trn seems to have lost replying function, and catapulted
> >(trebucheted?) me directly into pico.
>
> FIRST PLACE, and fit within a 3'x3' box! <--- KA
>
> equinox?
> -- Thomas Browne
Do you still have the design plans for that?
--
pete
Mikal 606
"Ben Wolfson" <rumju...@cryptarchy.org> wrote in message
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> made it.
>
> So you've got your two 3' long 4x4s and your two 5' long 4x4s, right?
> You've also got your 5' long METAL ROD (but LONGER would be BETTER), your
> two 1' long METAL RODs (I think that's how long they were), your 18" METAL
> ROD (longer but not too much longer would work here too), and your two 6"
> long METAL RODs, various screws, bolts, and cross- and t- shaped thingies,
> and there you go. Also some other thingies, but nothing you can't think
of
> yourself. And 100 lbs of barbells, which, if you substitute a 1' long
> METAL ROD for the 18" long METAL ROD, is just enough to make the whole
> thing rock back and forth dangerously after each launch.
>
> There was also some other stuff that I don't feel like describing right
> now.
>
> --
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> And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
> -- W. G. Sebald, _The Emigrants_
Andrew Pearson
>
> Andrew Pearson <apea...@pt.lu> wrote:
> >
> >Last time I was in Scotland, I was in the Bella Napoli on
> Hanover
> >Street (?) - off George street anyway, and there were two young
> >lasses bedind the counter who were switching back and forwards
> >between Italian and English with a strong Scots accent.
>
> That'd be the Bar Napoli, Bob. An excellent choice, and open
> until 3am for cozze marinara.
>
> Also, not far from there one can see the hill behind Stefan
> Kapusniak.
>
You're right you know. There's no denying it, _you_ _are_
_right_. The good old Bar Nap. It's not called the Bella Napoli
at all. Oh wait a minute, I just got the "Bob" reference (Duh
Andrew are slow tonite, "what's the strangest place you've ever...").
Is Arthur's Mound always behind Stefan Kapusniak, even when he
turns round?
:etrow <ul.tp@nosreapa> nosraeP werdnA
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> Goldfish don't fit through the air nozzle of most erotic dolls.
Andrew Pearson
>
> Ben Wolfson wrote:
>
> > I find that a half-pint of Ben & Jerry's or Haagen Dazs vanilla ice
> > cream and a bottle of GOOD root beer (that is, IBC, Stewart's, Henry
> > Weinhard, &c &c &c) make an excellent combination.
>
>
If I had golden points to give, that would win ten of them.
One minute Ben is hoovering up the B&Js with a liberal helping of
Root Beer (a BJ Float?) and the next thing you see is the nurse
slapping the big red button and the crash team legging it down
the corridoor with the BIG spatula.
--
Andrew Pearson. "exactly what the web needs less of".
Andrew Pearson
>
> [Joe Manfre, alt.religion.kibology, Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:57:55
> GMT]
>
> >back and forth between English and Spanish without even
> >seeming to notice that she was changing languages every five
> >or six words.
> >
>
> See if you can find a news program from the Philipines on your
> teeveeset sometime, if this kind of thing suits you.
That reminds me, there's a mall somewhere in Singapore where all
the Phillipino domestic hygiene consultants like to go during
their brief moments of free time. The sound of a thousand
Philipino females talking at once is... interesting Captain.
> I've only recently heard people "speaking", so I'm sure about
> this "audio recording" you wrote about in that sentence. I'm
> just constantly amazed and humiliated when people from distant
> lands speak perfect English. Thank you! US PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
> for making me catastrophically incompetent at everything I
> would've liked to have been good at.
>
I was thinking today about school, when I was a brat I thought
that the aim in lessons was to conceal the extent of my ignorance
from the teachers. Maybe got that worng somewhere. But that
education certainly gave me a good grounding in incompetence. Why
I bet I'm far more incompetent than anyone! I carent even spele
"filipino" rite.
Ben Wolfson
--
Ben Coakley
past the censors:
>Barq's is probably the best of the readily available stuff.
Urk. Barq's has caffeine (I mean, BITE), which makes it not even real root
beer. Fortunately I can get Dr. Brown's pretty easily here.
>My favorite bottled stuff I've had lately is Dominion, which is
>put out by a beer microbrewery in Virginia. I don't know if they
>actually make it, though. Kibo probably knows.
Saranac makes a root beer, but it's way too sweet. Does anybody make bitter
root beer any more?
--
Ben Coakley b...@twcny.rr.com
Earl Grey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ma Baker, Darjeeling, whatever.
-- Craig the Dancing Manager, Lovely
Ben Coakley
slipped this past the censors:
>Please don't let them make me a monkey butler
Funny, I just listened to that record.
Jonathan Matthew
@mathlab.WPI.EDU>:
>*Looks at his beard and moustache in the mirror* That's news to me. When
>did I change my name and gender, Ben?
At this point I'd like to ask why so many of the (male) people in
the ARK photo gallery etc. feature such prosperous facial hair.
Is this an aesthetic thing, or can't you trust yourselves to hold
sharp things to your throats? Or do they block mind control lasers?
hmm, I shaved this morning .. must .. consume .. dairy .. products.
Excuse me, I'll be in the fridge.
Ben Wolfson
wrote:
I held my R1LLY SHARP KNIFE to my throat. Well, reasonably close. Or
maybe that was my R1LLY DULL PSEUDODAGGER THAT ISN'T A DAGGER AT ALL
BECAUSE IN ADDITION TO NOT CURRENTLY BEING SHARP, IT IS MADE OUT OF
UNSHARPENABLE METAL. Probably the latter.
>Excuse me, I'll be in the fridge.
Just don't get footprints all over the pie.
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On the window that I looked through there was, instead of a crossed-out
cigarette, a crossed-out bottle. What a good idea to cross things out on
windows, I thought. What a convenience.
-- Russell Hoban, _The Medusa Frequency_
David Pacheco
> sl...@wpi.edu (Steve Lord) wrote in <Pine.OSF.4.21.0007311553090.1852-100000
> @mathlab.WPI.EDU>:
>
> >*Looks at his beard and moustache in the mirror* That's news to me. When
> >did I change my name and gender, Ben?
>
> At this point I'd like to ask why so many of the (male) people in
> the ARK photo gallery etc. feature such prosperous facial hair.
> Is this an aesthetic thing, or can't you trust yourselves to hold
> sharp things to your throats?
One of the most obvious ways to distinguish between a male
Orthodox Kibologist and a Reform Kibologist is through the lack
or presence of facial hair.
An Orthodox Kibologist takes a much more literal approach to
reading the KiBible, treating it as a series of pronouncements
and direct commands from Kibo Himself. So in the following
passage from McIrvin 3:14-21:
3:14 And LO! Did Kibo stand before the gathered crowds,
3:15 For 'twas unto HIM to deliver the goods and COMMAND what
His followers must do
3:16 And He LAID them down in green pastures, and caused them to
be brought UNTO the still waters.
3:17 After which His followers, wet AND hungry and covered in
grass stains, didst BEG of Him that of which to EAT.
3:18 But Kibo had only FIVE loaves of bread and THREE loaves of
fish, and the crowd WAS unto Him like a cheap suit.
3:19 And DIDST proclaim "Why hast Thou forsaken us, Lord Kibo?
Thou knowest that we ARE allergic to seafood."
3:20 And thus, Kibo was pantsed on the Mount of Galilee.
3:21 After which He did SAY: "Don't shave. This I command of
all my followers, forever and ever. This is the only
strict rule I have, that must never be broken. I don't
mean this as a parable or a metaphor. Just don't shave,
period."
Strictly Orthodox Kibologists take the preceding passage as an
injunction against shaving, and thus let their facial hair grow
from the time they are 18 and have received their Kibar Mitzvah.
Reform Kibologists, however, believe that the passage is a
parable, or a metaphor, and interpret it in a variety of ways,
depending on their specific sect. Some Reform Coelacanthian
Kibologists, for example, believe that Kibo here states that one
must never shave one's fish on a mountain.
Orthodox Everything You Say We'll Do The Opposite Kibologists
interpret the passage as an injunction against shaving too, so
they shave their whole bodies every day.
The McIrvinite Orthodox Reform Kibologists let their facial hair
grow, but shave a round area on their heads to symbolize the
"Mount of Galilee" on which Kibo was pantsed. They, like all
Orthodox Kibologists, also abstain from pants. You can see
pictures of their bizarre "union" rituals at
http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/wedding.html
(we have obscured their naked legs with pictures of cloth in
order to not offend the Reform Kibologists With As Many Pants As
You Can Wear Comfortably).
And now, a fun game! See if YOU can identify, from the collected
pictures of Kibologists, which sect each Kibologist belongs to!
And remember, if you find the Secret Sect, you get FREE KOOL-AID!
-dp.
Amen.
Ben Wolfson
>rumju...@cryptarchy.org (Ben Wolfson) wrote:
>
>
>>However, Mug sucks, and A&W is too sweet. Additionally, Barq's is
>>middle-of-the-road, but bad for the purposes of floats, I think.
>
>
>Barq's is probably the best of the readily available stuff.
If you live in an area where IBC is not readily available, well! I have
nothing more to say to you, sirrah.
--
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A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and
then thrown out, as good for nothing.
-- Samuel Johnson
David DeLaney
>That is all.
>Darla
>(except to say that there is no decent junk food west of the Mississippi.)
Whataburger.
Dave "I've run rings around your ... logic, dearie" DeLaney
PS: Sadly, Arthur Treacher's is -still- dead-and-absorbed-into-another-chain.
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David DeLaney
>sl...@wpi.edu (Steve Lord):
>>*Looks at his beard and moustache in the mirror* That's news to me. When
>>did I change my name and gender, Ben?
>
>At this point I'd like to ask why so many of the (male) people in
>the ARK photo gallery etc. feature such prosperous facial hair.
>Is this an aesthetic thing, or can't you trust yourselves to hold
Neither. Shaving takes time. Precious droplets of my bodily time. Therefore
I save up, and shave for ten minutes or so every three or four weeks,
instead of for five minutes every ... freakin' ... MORNING. I've followed
this Master Plan since just after high school, and the results so far are
good.
Dave "luckily I'm naturally fuzzy, rather than naturally patchy" DeLaney
pete
[SNIP]
> There was also some other stuff that I don't feel like describing right
> now.
>
> -- W. G. Sebald, _The Emigrants_
Thanks for that much of it, anyway.
I've been thinking about making one.
http://www.fyi.net/~kordite/trebstry.htm
--
pete
Joe Manfre
<ag0dos088q8faictf...@4ax.com>:
>On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:25:19 GMT, man...@flash.net (Joe Manfre) wrote:
>
>>rumju...@cryptarchy.org (Ben Wolfson) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>However, Mug sucks, and A&W is too sweet. Additionally, Barq's is
>>>middle-of-the-road, but bad for the purposes of floats, I think.
>>
>>
>>Barq's is probably the best of the readily available stuff.
>
>If you live in an area where IBC is not readily available, well! I have
>nothing more to say to you, sirrah.
Well, you can get IBC all over the place, but anywhere that IBC
is available usually sells better root beer than IBC.
What I meant is that you're more likely to find Barq's in the
fountains at fast-food joints and convenience stores and stuff.
All the Wendy'ses around here have Barq's in their fountains,
so I frequently order Barq's when I'm dining at a Wendy's.
JM
Carlos May
:>However, Mug sucks, and A&W is too sweet. Additionally, Barq's is
:>middle-of-the-road, but bad for the purposes of floats, I think.
: Barq's is probably the best of the readily available stuff.
As I pointed out a while back, Barq's[TM] used to have "Is It
Rootbeer?"[TM] as one of it's slogans (the other being the classic
"Drink Barq's! It's good!"[TM]). The thing was, it technically wasn't
quite a rootbeer, but an old style sarasparilla soda.
I believe the formula for the Barq's we drink here in New Orleans
is slightly different from that used elsewhere in the USA. IIRC,
the old family company split into New Orleans and Missisippi/Alabana
Gulf-Coast branches, then the Gulf-Coast company was the one that
went national, while the New Orleans bottling plant maintained
rights to local distribution and a somewhat older formula.
Unlike beer, it's much better in the bottle than on tap.
There's another pretty good local rootbeer, Abita (brewed
across lake Pontchartrain) but on comparison I definately
still like Barq's better than Abita or IBC rootbeer. IBC
Cream-Soda, on the other hand, kicks aB.
-- Tounge of Frog
* Fro...@neosoft.com ** "The Information Super-Frog" [dibs] *
http://www.angelfire.com/la/carlosmay/
Ben Wolfson
<stac...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>Ben Wolfson wrote:
>
>> However, Mug sucks,
>
> Mug is good! Mug is really not all bad! Mug is cheap!
> One summer, CS Ed and I gained 147 pounds each by eating nothing
>but root beer floats made with Mug.
Total, or individually?
> ICB or whatever they call it is OK, it's s'posed to be "gourmet
>root beer" (ooooooooooooh), but it tastes all watery and flat and
>shit. But they put it in brown bottles and sell it for $2 so it's
>gotta be good, right?
$1. And it's a better deal than Stewart's (>> $2) or Henry Weinhard (god
only knows), and better tasting than the other stuff.
--
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler's page of dumbth: members.home.net/rumjuggler
If only you knew the things I have seen in the darkness of the night.
-- Maurits Cornelius Escher
SWT
<F3114EA4E2D6A212.4A7B0F5B...@lp.airnews.net>:
>Unlike beer, it's much better in the bottle than on tap.
Unrelated rootbeer question: Why is it that root beer tastes much better
after sitting out for a while? Long enough for the fizz to flatten
slightly, and the taste gets, like, more full and mellow and stuff.
Anyone? Anyone? I know there are BRILLIANT BUT TWISTED CHEMISTS reading
this who could answer.
--
ark media dumping ground -=-)}]-> ftp://gianth.com
Boy, become wind running through GAME ARCADE.
Crgre Jvyyneq
>
>Unrelated rootbeer question: Why is it that root beer tastes
>much better after sitting out for a while? Long enough for
>the fizz to flatten slightly, and the taste gets, like, more
>full and mellow and stuff. Anyone? Anyone? I know there
>are BRILLIANT BUT TWISTED CHEMISTS reading this who could
>answer.
>
That is so not true, u r jsut try1ng t0 tr1ck me into leaving my
"RC" "sitting out for a while"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know
you said "R00t Beard", but the ad goes "ME AND MY RC!!!" HTH!!!
P.S. I don't like RC C01a much, but I admire their pluck. This
is a tr0ll, RC!!!
--
Peter Willard http://www.drizzle.com/~petew
``The fact that inhumanity is coupled with so much stupidity
makes one feel almost optimistic in a dangerous way.'' -Erich
Hecke
Steve Lord
> sl...@wpi.edu (Steve Lord) wrote in <Pine.OSF.4.21.0007311553090.1852-100000
> @mathlab.WPI.EDU>:
>
> >*Looks at his beard and moustache in the mirror* That's news to me. When
> >did I change my name and gender, Ben?
>
> At this point I'd like to ask why so many of the (male) people in
> the ARK photo gallery etc. feature such prosperous facial hair.
*shrug* I dunno.
> Is this an aesthetic thing, or can't you trust yourselves to hold
> sharp things to your throats? Or do they block mind control lasers?
All 3.
Nah, I just like having a beard and moustache -- I like the way it looks.
Steve L
Brack!
>>
>> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:41:58 GMT, aswe...@midway.uchicago.edu (Plorkwort)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >[re: polyglotism]
>> >somehow trn seems to have lost replying function, and catapulted
>> >(trebucheted?) me directly into pico.
>>
>> Yay trebuchets! I built a treb. It launched a small bean bag 153 feet for
>> FIRST PLACE, and fit within a 3'x3' box! <--- KA
On SBS (australian channel that shows kwality shows like 'Nude for
Satan' and other non aingleesh programs), there's this program where
archeologists and historians recreate ancient monuments and stuff.
There's the boring, like hoisting obelisks (apparently, all you need
are super-powered proto-Frenchmen) and pyramid building (yawn). Then
there's fun stuff like full scale trebuchets. To make it even more
fun, two teams went at it. One demolished the target castle. The other
cracked under the strain, so ended up throwing pianos at the model
castle.
This weekends was way more fun, where they tried to recreate
Archimedes' giant claw arm, used to terrorize invading roman ships by
grabbing them and making vroom vroom sounds.
Brack! Deploy Spam-Away(tm)!: |"What a good little boy you are,
<root@[127.0.0.1]> | Scotty... I could just pinch that
<MAILER-DAEMON@[127.0.0.1]> | chubby little cheek of yours until
<abuse@[127.0.0.1]> | it turns black and falls off of your
<.@[127.0.0.1]> UNSUBSCRIBE | fucking face, you adorable little boy."
Bill Newcomb
SWT <dumpl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Unrelated rootbeer question: Why is it that root beer tastes much better
> after sitting out for a while? Long enough for the fizz to flatten
> slightly, and the taste gets, like, more full and mellow and stuff.
> Anyone? Anyone? I know there are BRILLIANT BUT TWISTED CHEMISTS reading
> this who could answer.
I'm not brilliant, but I'll offer that the root beer warms up a bit
while it's sitting out. Cold tends to mask taste, which is why melted
ice cream seems much sweeter than frozen, and warm Coors Light seems
to taste so much worse. The more of a smell component the flavor has,
the more effect a change in temperature has, so I might postulate that
the flavors in root beer depend strongly on aroma components.
--
nu...@best.com | The work it takes to see things as they are
| is a lie--I see danger, trouble -TFUL282
Jonathan Matthew
@mathlab.WPI.EDU>:
>*shrug* I dunno.
With answers like this I'll NEVER get my homework done!
sigh.
Beable van Polasm
> In article <8F838E0D3dumpl...@207.126.101.100>,
> SWT <dumpl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Unrelated rootbeer question: Why is it that root beer tastes much better
> > after sitting out for a while? Long enough for the fizz to flatten
> > slightly, and the taste gets, like, more full and mellow and stuff.
> > Anyone? Anyone? I know there are BRILLIANT BUT TWISTED CHEMISTS reading
> > this who could answer.
>
> I'm not brilliant, but I'll offer that the root beer warms up a bit
> while it's sitting out. Cold tends to mask taste, which is why melted
> ice cream seems much sweeter than frozen, and warm Coors Light seems
> to taste so much worse. The more of a smell component the flavor has,
> the more effect a change in temperature has, so I might postulate that
> the flavors in root beer depend strongly on aroma components.
So, according to YOUR theory, Chunderdamp should be drinking
BOILING HOT root beer? Because then it would taste the best
it could possibly taste. And as a CORROLLARY to your theory,
TEA tastes better than BEER! And MOLTEN LEAD tastes better than
ICE CREAM!
cheers
Beable van Polasm
--
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I was really surprised to be asked here tonight to honour Bob Hope.
Surprised isn't the right word... annoyed -- Ronald Reagan
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Ben Wolfson
wrote:
>nu...@best.com (Bill Newcomb) writes:
>
>> In article <8F838E0D3dumpl...@207.126.101.100>,
>> SWT <dumpl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Unrelated rootbeer question: Why is it that root beer tastes much better
>> > after sitting out for a while? Long enough for the fizz to flatten
>> > slightly, and the taste gets, like, more full and mellow and stuff.
>> > Anyone? Anyone? I know there are BRILLIANT BUT TWISTED CHEMISTS reading
>> > this who could answer.
>>
>> I'm not brilliant, but I'll offer that the root beer warms up a bit
>> while it's sitting out. Cold tends to mask taste, which is why melted
>> ice cream seems much sweeter than frozen, and warm Coors Light seems
>> to taste so much worse. The more of a smell component the flavor has,
>> the more effect a change in temperature has, so I might postulate that
>> the flavors in root beer depend strongly on aroma components.
>
>So, according to YOUR theory, Chunderdamp should be drinking
>BOILING HOT root beer? Because then it would taste the best
>it could possibly taste. And as a CORROLLARY to your theory,
>TEA tastes better than BEER! And MOLTEN LEAD tastes better than
>ICE CREAM!
And everything tastes better with a fever.
--
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler's page of dumbth: members.home.net/rumjuggler
In the morning I came awake as I always do, like a man trapped in a car
going over a cliff.
David DeLaney
>nu...@best.com (Bill Newcomb) writes:
>> I'm not brilliant, but I'll offer that the root beer warms up a bit
>> while it's sitting out. Cold tends to mask taste, which is why melted
>> ice cream seems much sweeter than frozen, and warm Coors Light seems
>> to taste so much worse. The more of a smell component the flavor has,
>> the more effect a change in temperature has, so I might postulate that
>> the flavors in root beer depend strongly on aroma components.
>
>So, according to YOUR theory, Chunderdamp should be drinking
>BOILING HOT root beer? Because then it would taste the best
>it could possibly taste.
Yep. You can test this, sciencefictionally, by leaving a bottle of Dr. Pepper
on the front seat of your car all day! When you emerge from your place of
work (or play, we don't know -what- you do all day in Austria any more
beable, at least in Nippon there were webcams everywhere we could track you
by, anyway) it will be More Deliciouser Than Ever! Like how hot buttered rum
is much better than -cold- buttered rum!
>And as a CORROLLARY to your theory,
>TEA tastes better than BEER!
Hot tea does. Iced tea: no.
>And MOLTEN LEAD tastes better than ICE CREAM!
Well, if it's got chocolate stripes in it, sure!
Dave "envisioning a -new- style of national monument" DeLaney
--
\/David DeLaney d...@panacea.phys.utk.edu "It's not the pot that grows the flower
James Kibo Parry
>
> Beable van Polasm (bea...@my-deja.com) wrote:
> >
> > Bill Newcomb (nu...@best.com) wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not brilliant, but I'll offer that the root beer warms up a bit
> > > while it's sitting out. Cold tends to mask taste, which is why melted
> > > ice cream seems much sweeter than frozen, and warm Coors Light seems
> > > to taste so much worse. The more of a smell component the flavor has,
> > > the more effect a change in temperature has, so I might postulate that
> > > the flavors in root beer depend strongly on aroma components.
> >
> > So, according to YOUR theory, Chunderdamp should be drinking
> > BOILING HOT root beer? Because then it would taste the best
> > it could possibly taste.
>
> Yep. You can test this, sciencefictionally, by leaving a bottle of Dr. Pepper
> on the front seat of your car all day! When you emerge from your place of
> work (or play, we don't know -what- you do all day in Austria any more
> beable, at least in Nippon there were webcams everywhere we could track you
> by, anyway) it will be More Deliciouser Than Ever! Like how hot buttered rum
> is much better than -cold- buttered rum!
Absolutely. Dr Pepper is a dish best served NOT COLD. And not in a dish.
> > And as a CORROLLARY to your theory,
> > TEA tastes better than BEER!
>
> Hot tea does. Iced tea: no.
>
> > And MOLTEN LEAD tastes better than ICE CREAM!
>
> Well, if it's got chocolate stripes in it, sure!
Why split the difference? Baskin-Robbins sells leaded ice cream.
If you eat enough of it, you will never die of radiation poisoning!
That's why the astronauts are always eating that astronaut ice cream
with the texture of a wad of ashes from a factory-reject Gutenberg Bible
burned by the Pope. It protects the astronauts' tender little tummies
from the deadly radiation that comes out of the Van Allen Belt that keeps
their pants up. And also from the deadly Irwin Allen radiation that
comes out of their TV screen whenever they watch "The Time Tunnel"
in outer space.
Also the astronauts need to consume as much lead as possible so
that they won't float away when they get above those clouds that
stop the Earth's gravity.
"Houston, we've had a problem. We're venting something into space...
it looks like a cloud of chocolate jimmies. I can't tell if they're
drifting, or if that's just a side-effect of this rotating polarizer.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to find the manometer."
(Matt, PLEASE explain that to the Peanut Gallery so they won't
think I'm insane.)
-- K.
"WARNING: ICE CREAM CONTAINS ICE,
SO EATING IT MAKES YOU LEGALLY INSANE!!!"
-- Kibo, 1999
Fool
> that they won't float away when they get above those clouds that
> stop the Earth's gravity.
>
Actually, they use depleted Uranium for this purpose nowadays.
--
To email me, remove 'it' from my address.
Matt McIrvin
(James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:
>That's why the astronauts are always eating that astronaut ice cream
>with the texture of a wad of ashes from a factory-reject Gutenberg Bible
>burned by the Pope.
I recently read somewhere, possibly on one of the pages at
http://www.lem.pl/ , that Stanislaw Lem and Karol Wojtyla were once
acquaintances and had long theological arguments. I find the idea of such
a meeting slightly terrifying to contemplate. Steve Allen was not
invited. The existence of puns involving the words "opposite poles" is
hereby acknowledged.
Also, Jordan's Furniture has taken the next step beyond astronaut ice
cream. (This is a New England furniture store chain that, like many large
furniture store chains today, attempts to turn its stores into
destinations, with on-site cafes and "M.O.M. -- the Motion Odyssey Movie,"
a sort of down-market ride film; but mostly with lots and lots of
moderately clever TV advertising, of which the best was a dead-on parody
of the Blue Man Group ads.)
Jordan's now also sells a peculiar variety of ice cream that, they
explain, has been through some sort of low-temperature centrifuge-like
mechanism, concentrating it into homogenized packing-material-like frozen
pellets that they call "Spaceballs." Spaceballs are "The Ice Cream
of the Future."
They're OK, I guess. They didn't provide much explanation for why
they were the MOST FUTURE ice cream, though.
>"Houston, we've had a problem. We're venting something into space...
> it looks like a cloud of chocolate jimmies. I can't tell if they're
> drifting, or if that's just a side-effect of this rotating polarizer.
> Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to find the manometer."
>
>(Matt, PLEASE explain that to the Peanut Gallery so they won't
>think I'm insane.)
Kibo has just gone to the Museum of Science again.
LET THE BABY HAVE HIS EXPLANATION OF JOKE:
Stylized diagrams of industrial processes, like you find in the Random
House Encyclopedia or Diagram Group books, often represent things like
radioactive steam or molten steel or petroleum fractions with patterns
that look like chocolate jimmies. In the Museum of Science "interactive"
versions, these same things are represented with polarized light tricks
that make the jimmies shimmer and boil.
"Find the Manometer" is in the "Fluidica" exhibit, where you can also
learn that a beach ball can be made to levitate mysteriously by means
of a string.
--
Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/
James Kibo Parry
>
> James "Kibo" Parry (ki...@world.std.com) wrote:
> >
> > That's why the astronauts are always eating that astronaut ice cream
> > with the texture of a wad of ashes from a factory-reject Gutenberg Bible
> > burned by the Pope.
>
> cream. (This is a New England furniture store chain that, like many large
> furniture store chains today, attempts to turn its stores into
> destinations, with on-site cafes and "M.O.M. -- the Motion Odyssey Movie,"
> a sort of down-market ride film; but mostly with lots and lots of
> moderately clever TV advertising, of which the best was a dead-on parody
> of the Blue Man Group ads.)
>
> Jordan's now also sells a peculiar variety of ice cream that, they
> explain, has been through some sort of low-temperature centrifuge-like
> mechanism, concentrating it into homogenized packing-material-like frozen
> pellets that they call "Spaceballs." Spaceballs are "The Ice Cream
> of the Future."
>
> They're OK, I guess. They didn't provide much explanation for why
> they were the MOST FUTURE ice cream, though.
WOW! I wasn't going to go buy one of those two-thousand-dollar red
plastic Sit'N'Doodle Activity Desks with an IBM PC inside from
anyone, least of all people who advertise on local TV, but the
fact that they sell ASTRONAUT ICE CREAM FRAGMENTS AND FURNITURE IN
THE SAME BUILDING IS JUST TOO EXCITING TO RESIST! SIGN ME UP FOR
A HUNDRED TODDLER COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS FILLED WITH DELICIOUS FAKE
ICE CREAM MADE FROM DRYER LINT MADE FROM DIRTY SWEATSOCKS!
I AM NOT BEING ***S*A*R*C*A*S*T*I*C*** AT ALL!!! <-- LOOK AT THE ASTERISKS!
> >"Houston, we've had a problem. We're venting something into space...
> > it looks like a cloud of chocolate jimmies. I can't tell if they're
> > drifting, or if that's just a side-effect of this rotating polarizer.
> > Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to find the manometer."
> >
> > (Matt, PLEASE explain that to the Peanut Gallery so they won't
> > think I'm insane.)
>
> Kibo has just gone to the Museum of Science again.
No I haven't. Last science museum I went to was the one that had
the corpse of a Canadian lowlife lying in a pool of fake blood.
(The Challenger Space & Science Discovery Centre in Edmonton, Alberta,
has a lot of lame exhibits on space exploration, a working Atari Lunar
Lander game, and a very nice exhibit on police forensics.)
> LET THE BABY HAVE HIS EXPLANATION OF JOKE:
>
> Stylized diagrams of industrial processes, like you find in the Random
> House Encyclopedia or Diagram Group books, often represent things like
> radioactive steam or molten steel or petroleum fractions with patterns
> that look like chocolate jimmies. In the Museum of Science "interactive"
> versions, these same things are represented with polarized light tricks
> that make the jimmies shimmer and boil.
>
> "Find the Manometer" is in the "Fluidica" exhibit, where you can also
> learn that a beach ball can be made to levitate mysteriously by means
> of a string.
You forgot the part about standing in front of the case filled with
streams of blue liquid and yelling "I HAVTA GO TO THE BAFROOM!"
You also forgot to explain that "Houston, we've had a problem" was an
obvious misquote from "Apollo 13". I don't know how you missed that gaffe!
I bet you couldn't even land the 800 megabuck lander in the Atari game
right in front of the actual spaceship from the 23rd century with
"lightspeed-cubed" drive, said exhibit proving that in the future all
spaceships will be made out of recycled household objects from the 1990s!
-- K.
Also, you missed the chance to
avoid explaining everything by
simply claiming I really AM insane.
David DeLaney
>Also, Jordan's Furniture has taken the next step beyond astronaut ice cream.
...Astronaut-_flavored_ ice cream?
>LET THE BABY HAVE HIS EXPLANATION OF JOKE:
Dave "Committee to Space Dolly Parton" DeLaney
--
\/David DeLaney posting from d...@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
Nick Bensema
Matt McIrvin <mmci...@world.std.com> wrote:
>Jordan's now also sells a peculiar variety of ice cream that, they
>explain, has been through some sort of low-temperature centrifuge-like
>mechanism, concentrating it into homogenized packing-material-like frozen
>pellets that they call "Spaceballs." Spaceballs are "The Ice Cream
>of the Future."
>
>They're OK, I guess. They didn't provide much explanation for why
>they were the MOST FUTURE ice cream, though.
I bought those twice at the local movie theater from a vending machine.
The first time I was hoping that this futurey ice cream would be
dehydrated. Or perhaps that it would be ice cream balls covered in mochi,
which I recently tried and lurved. No, it was just concentrated into
little globs. But it was OK, even though not much less messy or melty
than normal ice cream.
The second time I was in a hurry and had an ice cream craving. But it
took the machine's stupid hydraulic sucker-thing five minutes to grab
an ice cream from the little magic opening ice chest. And when I got
my ice cream I realized that the little compartment where they keep
the spoons and napkins, had been depleted.
Needless to say, I ruined a shirt that night.
--
Nick Bensema <ni...@io.com> ICQ#2135445
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monty_p
>On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 10:18:21 -0700, monty_p
<smithN...@mvt.ie.invalid>
>slipped this past the censors:
>
>>Please don't let them make me a monkey butler
>
>Funny, I just listened to that record.
>
Un enfant et son chien
C'est banal, c'est presque rien
Mais la vie tourne bien
Avec Belle et Sébastien
..from http://www.chez.com/inigo/belle-sebastien.html
And how true, how very true that is.
The monkey butler picture reminds me of dressing up for the easy
listening club 'Going Places' in Edinburgh. Someone should scan
it for gianth.com, along with the cover of Tigermilk.
This really belongs in the music thread. Belle and Sebastian
have the Kibo nature.
Paddy Smith in Dublin Oirlind | smith(at)mvt(dot)ie
Please don't let them make me a monkey butler
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Joe Manfre
>Matt McIrvin (mmci...@world.std.com) wrote:
>> Jordan's [Furniture] now also sells a peculiar variety of ice cream
>> that, they explain, has been through some sort of low-temperature
>> centrifuge-like mechanism, concentrating it into homogenized packing-
>> material-like frozen pellets that they call "Spaceballs." Spaceballs
>> are "The Ice Cream of the Future."
Hmm. That's funny, around here (in Maryland and Virginia) I've
seen exactly the same thing sold as "Dippin' Dots," also with
the tagline "The Ice Cream of the Future," sold in the middle
of shopping malls at little stands covered in green awnings and
multihued polka dots.
>WOW! I wasn't going to go buy one of those two-thousand-dollar red
>plastic Sit'N'Doodle Activity Desks with an IBM PC inside from
>anyone, least of all people who advertise on local TV, but the
>fact that they sell ASTRONAUT ICE CREAM FRAGMENTS AND FURNITURE IN
>THE SAME BUILDING IS JUST TOO EXCITING TO RESIST!
I think that between the ready availability of Spaceballs/Dippin'
Dots *and* his new cache of Jar Jar tongues, Kibo is now required
under the U.S. Constitution to schedule another ARKPLE where we
can all sample these treats while surrounded by each other for
guidance and support and any necessary force-feeding of Imodium
Advanced and/or Citroma. While there, he can give me my prize
for writing the most heartwarming Einstein story that has been
posted to ARK so far in August of 2000.
Also I should mention that when I attended Space Camp at age
13 I was utterly addicted to Astronaut Ice Cream and bought about
eighteen zillion packets of the stuff. I haven't eaten it much
since then, although if I ever need some I know I can head downtown
to the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, which also sells
astronaut space pens at the low low price of $6 per.
>> Kibo has just gone to the Museum of Science again.
>
>No I haven't. Last science museum I went to was the one that had
>the corpse of a Canadian lowlife lying in a pool of fake blood.
Speaking of which, I should mention that the Astronaut Ice Cream
I kept buying at Space Camp was bought at the little NASA visitor
center/museum attached to Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. The
museum is one of the lamest space museums I've ever seen, although
they had a special thing outside where one of the Space Camp kids
got to ride *inside* the big ball that was floated on air and
spun around and stuff to demonstrate the Bernoulli principle.
The big ball (big enough for a young teenager to fit inside) was
inside a very large cylinder (must have been at least 15 feet
high) with the air blowing up from the bottom so the ball could
float upward but could not move to either side, since the diameter
of the cylinder was only a little bigger than the diameter of
the ball. That way it was more or less safe, I guess, because
the ball would not suddenly shoot off to the side and then
rediscover gravity and fall down and bounce a couple of times
and then roll down the hill with all the camp counselors chasing
after it, and then the kid would get out all dazed and woozy and
cough up his lucky red hat and post to ARK about how it should
be an Olympic event.
At least, I *think* that floating-ball-with-a-kid-inside was
real and not just something I dreamed. It could have been just
some hallucination I had because of the fact that I was really
stressed out at Space Camp because I was afraid to poop all
week (the camp lasted five days) and so I held it in the entire
time (true story!).
JM
Joseph Michael Bay
>You forgot the part about standing in front of the case filled with
>streams of blue liquid and yelling "I HAVTA GO TO THE BAFROOM!"
>You also forgot to explain that "Houston, we've had a problem" was an
>obvious misquote from "Apollo 13". I don't know how you missed that gaffe!
And in frame twenty seven oh six you can see Merryl Streep and Dustin
Hoffmann, who starred in _Kramer vs. Kramer_, and Michael Richards, who
played Kramer in the original _Seinfeld_ movie (before they made him white),
but here's the cool part -- the gaffer was named Richard Michaels! I think
this was intentional. Kibo and Matt both forgot to point that out.
Also I am the comic bookstore guy from _The Simpsons_.
> Also, you missed the chance to
> avoid explaining everything by
> simply claiming I really AM insane.
DISCLAIMER: THESE MEN ARE POSTING FROM INSIDE A PADDED CELL, USING A
LARGE PLASTIC COMPUTER WITH NO CORNERS OR SHARP EDGES:
James "Kibo" Parry (ins.)
Matt "Longshot" McIrvin (ret.)
IN
AND SHIRLEY
THE TOWERING
--
Joe Bay Stanford University Cancer Biology
I M O N I T O R E D T H E S E S A N T A S
Fool
>
> DISCLAIMER: THESE MEN ARE POSTING FROM INSIDE A PADDED CELL, USING A
> LARGE PLASTIC COMPUTER WITH NO CORNERS OR SHARP EDGES:
>
Ah, so _that_'s where Kibo came across the JC Penny computer.
Jim Vandewalker
>>Matt McIrvin (mmci...@world.std.com) wrote:
>
>>> Jordan's [Furniture] now also sells a peculiar variety of ice cream
>>> that, they explain, has been through some sort of low-temperature
>>> centrifuge-like mechanism, concentrating it into homogenized packing-
>>> material-like frozen pellets that they call "Spaceballs." Spaceballs
>>> are "The Ice Cream of the Future."
>
>
>Hmm. That's funny, around here (in Maryland and Virginia) I've
>seen exactly the same thing sold as "Dippin' Dots," also with
>the tagline "The Ice Cream of the Future," sold in the middle
>of shopping malls at little stands covered in green awnings and
>multihued polka dots.
>
Hey I saw one of those little stands with polka-dotted awnings and
everything at the local DeBartolo Mall right here in the futuristic
state of FLORIDA. Guess what I wacky-parsed "Dippin' Dots" as.
There was also a a little wagon with a fenced-in area in the back with a
couple of non-surly black teenagers in black & white striped referee
shirts and black shorts throwing Bungee-Balls(tm). They were standing on
a pad made out of giant rubber puzzle pieces in Pla-Doh colors and
throwing the Bungee-Balls(tm) at another giant puzzle-piece pad, which
the Bungee-Balls(tm) would almost hit, and then spang back into the
non-surly teenagers' hands.
--
Jim V.
Matt McIrvin
mmci...@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) wrote:
>I recently read somewhere, possibly on one of the pages at
>http://www.lem.pl/ , that Stanislaw Lem and Karol Wojtyla were once
>acquaintances and had long theological arguments.
I was mistaken-- it wasn't there, it was at
http://www.infidels.org/infidels/products/books/non-theists/fsf/lem01.html
Daniel Buettner
> There's another pretty good local rootbeer, Abita (brewed
> across lake Pontchartrain) but on comparison I definately
> still like Barq's better than Abita or IBC rootbeer. IBC
> Cream-Soda, on the other hand, kicks aB.
I'm partial to South Sioux City Cream Soda, myself.
Mmmmmmm.....
And don't tell anyone, but the OTHER book store right NEAR
city campus sells individual bottles cheaper than any of the
grocery stores. I hope they (the bookstore) never notice
that the ``market price'' is at least $0.50 more per bottle
(depending on where you shop).
I just don't understand how a store founded on the principle
of gouging students for all they can, could possibly fail to
overcharge for fine bottled cream soda, rootbeer,
sarsaparilla, birchbeer &c.
--
~
~
~
"Daniel Buettner" line 4 of 4 --100%--
Dag Right-square-bracket-gren
> Then, while I was waiting in line, in front of me was this little
> girl who was talking to two women who I think were her mother and
> big sister. And the little girl was babbling on and on the way
> little kids do. But the weird thing was the way she kept switching
> back and forth between English and Spanish without even seeming
> to notice that she was changing languages every five or six words.
>
> It sounded really odd, and I wish I had an audio recording of it.
> Have any of you ever heard anything like that?
I usually do that when I talk to my friends - switch between Swedish and
English at random, mainly to use the larger vocabulary and more
interesting figures-of-speech of English while keeping most of the
Swedish grammar, because it comes easier to me.
It confuses the hell out of people who aren't used to it.
--
Dag Agren <> d...@c3.cx <> http://www.abo.fi/~dagren/ <> Legalize oregano
"This box contained a tiny Archimedes Plutonium, running in circles and
screaming 'I CAN RUN FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF STUPIDITY!'" - Eurakarte
Andrew J. Zimolzak
Thanne longen Daniel Buettner to goon on alt.religion.kibology.
> Carlos May <fro...@starbase.neosoft.com> wrote:
>
> > There's another pretty good local rootbeer, Abita (brewed
> > across lake Pontchartrain) but on comparison I definately
> > still like Barq's better than Abita or IBC rootbeer. IBC
> > Cream-Soda, on the other hand, kicks aB.
>
> I'm partial to South Sioux City Cream Soda, myself.
>
> Mmmmmmm.....
The four words after the upcoming colon will change your life: Sioux
City Ginger Beer.
Drinking Sioux City Ginger Beer is like drinking the Devil's pee after
he's subsisted for three days on a strict diet of durian paste and
habanero pepper juice.
Sioux City Ginger Beer will do you up a treat, mate!
It's hard to find, though. I think my uncle found it in Wisconsin.
You can, however, order it through the mail.
--
Andy Z.
The #1 macrolide used in hospitalized patients with community-acquired
pneumonia for many reasons. Andy Zimolzak delivers an excellent
safety and tolerability profile.
Andrew Pearson
>
> Matt McIrvin <mmci...@world.std.com> wrote:
> >Also, Jordan's Furniture has taken the next step beyond astronaut ice cream.
>
> ...Astronaut-_flavored_ ice cream?
>
> >LET THE BABY HAVE HIS EXPLANATION OF JOKE:
>
> Dave "Committee to Space Dolly Parton" DeLaney
Dare I ask, is that a Giant Pulsating Space Dolly Parton you have there?
Ground control to giant-pulstating-space-Dolly-Parton, can you
hear me giant-pulstating-space-Dolly-Parton? Can you Here am I
floating in a nine-to-five...
--
:etorw nosraeP werdnA
Glenn Knickerbocker
> You can, however, order it through the mail.
Just don't try to get it across the border. Pepper spray is illegal in
Canada and Quebec.
¬"I didn't shake it, honest!"R
Andrew J. Zimolzak
Thanne longen Joe Manfre to goon on alt.religion.kibology.
> ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:
>
> >Matt McIrvin (mmci...@world.std.com) wrote:
>
> >> Jordan's [Furniture] now also sells a peculiar variety of ice cream
> >> that, they explain, has been through some sort of low-temperature
> >> centrifuge-like mechanism, concentrating it into homogenized packing-
> >> material-like frozen pellets that they call "Spaceballs." Spaceballs
> >> are "The Ice Cream of the Future."
>
> Hmm. That's funny, around here (in Maryland and Virginia) I've
> seen exactly the same thing sold as "Dippin' Dots," also with
> the tagline "The Ice Cream of the Future," sold in the middle
> of shopping malls at little stands covered in green awnings and
> multihued polka dots.
Ditto for Michigan. They have 'em at Cedar Point in Ohio, too. My
one lasting memory of Dippin' Dots is that they were damned cold (to
keep them from sticking to each other, I suppose). They gave my
tongue frostbite.
They were also too expensive (no doubt a result of the high cost of
operating and maintaining a time machine to import them from the
future).
David DeLaney
>David DeLaney wrote:
>> Matt McIrvin <mmci...@world.std.com> wrote:
>> >Also, Jordan's Furniture has taken the next step beyond astronaut ice cream.
>> ...Astronaut-_flavored_ ice cream?
>> >LET THE BABY HAVE HIS EXPLANATION OF JOKE:
>> Dave "Committee to Space Dolly Parton" DeLaney
>
>Dare I ask, is that a Giant Pulsating Space Dolly Parton you have there?
No - I'm just happy to be here.
>Ground control to giant-pulstating-space-Dolly-Parton, can you
>hear me giant-pulstating-space-Dolly-Parton? Can you Here am I
>floating in a nine-to-five...
Dave "broadcasting LIVE from Pigeon Forge, it's Tennessee's two greatest
tourist attractions!" DeLaney
--
\/David DeLaney d...@panacea.phys.utk.edu "It's not the pot that grows the flower