Hooray for Mars Phoenix, which just landed and is transmitting to Earth from the Martian North Polar region!
That child should have been reprimanded by an adult with "That's not funny - that's cichlid."
I am old enough to remember when there were only 103 chemical elements.
David @89: Yes, it's more like a program that fails to compile or run in five different computer languages. Even I can write one of those.
Stephen @93: "pentalingual" itself serving as a mongrel sired by "quintalingual" out of a dam "pentaglottal," I reckon. But it sounds like it describes a person who has five tongues.
Obligatory bird-riff: I wonder whether Antoine Cassar has considered translating Le Flacon into Maltese.
Here is a snip of obfuscated text which can be compiled as C++ code and C code and can be interpreted as TeX markup and as a Perl script. The first two lines of the C++ code output are
On the first day of Christmas my only love gave to me
a partridge in a pear tree.
I think the part which begins with #define mysweetdiego is most moving.
Does there exist a poem somewhere which can be read in four different languages, preferably with four quite different meanings?
Sorry for the repetition. But it's an apt repetition.
(must click all links...)
Don't know about Great Britain, Australia, or New Zealand, but in Middle-Earth I am quite sure that it goes by the name Phial of Life.
Sandworm Shai-Hulud - Speedy Gonzales
A force of nature to strike fear in any heart, particularly the politically correct ones.
Serge @151: The French pronounciation of marmite is closer to 'mar-mitt'
... Romney?
(Suddenly back on topic)
I've eaten and enjoyed marmite as an admixture to a vegetarian stew. But Dilute! Dilute! OK!
#75 Diatryma: I self-identify as baritone and my comfortable range is F below low C to F above middle C. High F# is pushing it, and that high G is sometimes there on a good day, sometimes not. Anything above that is a thin falsetto useless for anything but singing in the car with the windows rolled up.
The basses in my church choir range down to the low E-flat, where I dare not tread.
#178 Seth: Don't forget to open the pod bay doors to vent the fumes to pitiless vacuum when you're through.
Oh dear, what kind of to-do has Britney gotten herself into now?
@126: Do you mind if I refer to you as Dregs Scott?
Sarah @114: Caption cards?
If somebody does that epic, I hope they manage to work in one natural piece of product placement. Shouldn't there be a distiller out there promoting a Heorot Mead right now?
If Beowulf turns out to be a big hit, I wonder how many otherwise idle screenwriters will be turning their hands to motion-capture treatments of Gilgamesh, Gawain, Roland, and El Cid.
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