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Feb. 1st, 2008 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackQ: Are you scottish?
A: Yes.
Q: Where are you from?
A: Scotland.
-- From an ceilidh. (Actually, that didn't happen, but it's how I heard it in my head, ok?)
Lesbian Speed Dating Pastiche Video via Vyvyan via Feanalwa A: I'm sorry, I'm just not ready for a relationship right now.
Lesbian Speed Dating Pastiche Video via Vyvyan via Feanalwa Q: ... How about now?
GINI: Mmm, sex. It makes anything better.
FERRET: Not prison.
Q: You might not claim it was the best of all possible sonnets, but it was a spectacular local maximum.
A: Aww! That's not only a lovely compliment, it's a maths related lovely compliment.
"I probably should give the cow the benefit of the doubt."
-- bugshaw.
"My Census Bureau contact tells me that the authors of the data file have seen the wisdom of my point of view, in spite of my unconstructive and unhelpful feedback (I said 'Wow, that is an incredibly terrible idea')
-- Mark Dominus
"[Readers[1]] may not have heard about it, because it concerns (a) India, (b) Australia, and (c) cricket. For Americans who are not international news junkies, the quantity of news encountered about any of these three topics in a week will typically amount to zero."
-- Geoffrey K. Pullum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
Mornington Crescent (game)
[box: All or part of this article may be confusing or unclear.]
DM: 'you are an evil dice...I like that'
GM: 'It's semi-evil! Evil-esque.'
Q: So we have four and a half elves?
A; Whats the exchange rate?
Q: How many of us would we need to swap to get a dragon?
DM: What would the rest of you do once you'd swapped yourselves?
Q: We could take turns playing it.
A: Or play bits of it. I'll be the left wing.
A: Flap! Flap!
[1] Interestingly, the original referred to American readers, but taken out of context, I thought it a lot funnier when the country in question wasn't emphasised.
A: Yes.
Q: Where are you from?
A: Scotland.
-- From an ceilidh. (Actually, that didn't happen, but it's how I heard it in my head, ok?)
Lesbian Speed Dating Pastiche Video via Vyvyan via Feanalwa A: I'm sorry, I'm just not ready for a relationship right now.
Lesbian Speed Dating Pastiche Video via Vyvyan via Feanalwa Q: ... How about now?
GINI: Mmm, sex. It makes anything better.
FERRET: Not prison.
Q: You might not claim it was the best of all possible sonnets, but it was a spectacular local maximum.
A: Aww! That's not only a lovely compliment, it's a maths related lovely compliment.
"I probably should give the cow the benefit of the doubt."
-- bugshaw.
"My Census Bureau contact tells me that the authors of the data file have seen the wisdom of my point of view, in spite of my unconstructive and unhelpful feedback (I said 'Wow, that is an incredibly terrible idea')
-- Mark Dominus
"[Readers[1]] may not have heard about it, because it concerns (a) India, (b) Australia, and (c) cricket. For Americans who are not international news junkies, the quantity of news encountered about any of these three topics in a week will typically amount to zero."
-- Geoffrey K. Pullum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
Mornington Crescent (game)
[box: All or part of this article may be confusing or unclear.]
DM: 'you are an evil dice...I like that'
GM: 'It's semi-evil! Evil-esque.'
Q: So we have four and a half elves?
A; Whats the exchange rate?
Q: How many of us would we need to swap to get a dragon?
DM: What would the rest of you do once you'd swapped yourselves?
Q: We could take turns playing it.
A: Or play bits of it. I'll be the left wing.
A: Flap! Flap!
[1] Interestingly, the original referred to American readers, but taken out of context, I thought it a lot funnier when the country in question wasn't emphasised.
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Date: 2008-02-01 05:45 pm (UTC)Thanks. Actually, I did notice it, but decided that it needn't. The original started with "American readers," which sounds like a foreigner snarking at America as insular (which is sometimes very funny, if maybe mean, but I thought unnecessary here). However, although Geoff isn't actually in America, it sounded like he was writing for American readers as much as not, and people are having a laugh at their own country's news' idiosyncrasies. And not changing the first words would seem to break that idea, sounding like it meant Americans *specifically* whereas the second didn't contradict it.
That what was funny was the list, (1) Oz (2) India (3) Cricket, and something similar could be said of most countries. (Even if America (1) maybe more so and (2) is ignorant of cricket, rather than some other sport.)
I don't know if that's accurate, but I found it interesting.