• (cs) in reply to SlyEcho
    SlyEcho:
    Ah, Caesar III. What a great game that was.
    Pooh! I've had more fun editing two files at once using vi. Mind you, I'm an emacs fan.

    Why? Because it slaughters Anthonies and Cleopatras and stuff...

    Nurse ... Nurse ... Could you refill the ether drip, please? This ward is full of Snakes. Me, I don't mind, although they seem to have chased the Bats away. But what about the Flames?

  • (cs) in reply to Quango
    Quango:
    Croc Dundee:
    Man those Aussies sure have some odd names for things.

    Kangeroos, digeredoos, dingos, and now places called filesyd0803.out...

    What will those crazy guys think of next?

    We Brits have them beat: Treacle Mine Road

    Yeah, there's nothing quite so amusing as naming your road system after the details in a comedy sci-fi series. (Mind you, I can talk. I live on an estate built on top of a golf course, so we have addresses like "Chip Close" and "Fairlie Crescent." Oh, so piquant.)

    I lived in Sydney twenty or so years ago, so I can satisfy your curiousity re. "filesyd0803.out." First of all, Circular Quay is indeed Circular, so there's no point in having a destination posted up. Five minutes, and you're back where you started.

    Secondly, like all Aboriginal words bar one, "filesyd0803.out" is derived from "water." The dot denotes an unusual clicking sound, normally associated with the Xhosa people of Southern Africa. In this case, philologists speculate that it's merely short-hand for "excuse me buddy, but could you spare a dime for a cup of brackish hydrogen dioxide?" Quite popular round Redfern, I hear.

    Funny you should mention the only Australian word (other than insults against the English, which are all fair enough) that doesn't mean "water." It's still Aborigine, but I don't care what John Haviland says, "Kangaroo" means "I've never seen one of those bloody things before."

    Or maybe "One Who Hops Towards Water." I mean, what do I know?

  • (cs) in reply to Dr. Evil
    Dr. Evil:
    Mark:
    And if you're ever in Wales:

    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch

    (No that's not made up.)

    This is where Murlocs come from.

    Have you been there? I doubt it.

    And that's the saddest travesty of H.G.Wells I've seen for a while. At least, if you're going to quote "World of Warcraft," do it in Chinese characters. It's sort of traditional round these parts.

  • Wine Snob (unregistered)

    The real WTF is surely the existance of 1.5L bottles of still wine?

  • Lego (unregistered) in reply to Leak
    Leak:
    Pol:
    There's a place near me called Biggar!
    You've got to be Fucking kidding me...

    Well, we Upper Austrians got that while the Bavarians are more into Petting...

    np: Jared Emerson-Johnson - More Than Jerks (Sam & Max Season One OST (Disc 1))

    Of course, in Canada we have Dildos

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to Lego
    Lego:
    Leak:
    Pol:
    There's a place near me called Biggar!
    You've got to be Fucking kidding me...

    Well, we Upper Austrians got that while the Bavarians are more into Petting...

    np: Jared Emerson-Johnson - More Than Jerks (Sam & Max Season One OST (Disc 1))

    Of course, in Canada we have Dildos

    So down, all you guys. At least in BC, Canada, we have Hope!

    Especially in this economy. Makes for good road signs too.

  • Matt.C (unregistered)

    Does this mean it's time to get 'Type some shit in here please' out of mothballs?

    http://amr.abime.net/trivia_17

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to woot
    woot:
    "... technically its the end of the world"

    That's just awesome. I'm going to have to find a use for that phrase.

    sendmail.cf section:

    T class: Our top-level domain name.

    Must be identical to the definition of the T macro above or all hell

    will break loose. Defined via the T macro, do not touch!

    CT$T

    http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/sgi/sendmail/8-bit/sendmail.cf.auto.latest

  • Asuyuka (unregistered)

    Sooo need to check out our Caesar III manual now, thanks.

    I know that half the descriptions are so wildly inaccurate, that the Readme essentially tells you to ignore six or seven pages worth of stuff. Yeah...

  • Slyer (unregistered)

    What the hell is a liter?

  • Razumny (unregistered)

    Well, it is a big bottle though...

  • (cs) in reply to DWalker59
    DWalker59:
    When I visited Hawai'i, I got a T-shirt that showed a picture of the humuhumunukunukuapua'a fish, captioned "swim softly and carry a big name". I think it's the state fish of Hawai'i.
    My favorite fish back when I was about 7 was always the lau wiliwili nukunuku 'oi'oi, on the grounds that I had a t-shirt with it on and the name always made me giggle.
  • (cs) in reply to Slyer

    I have a feeling it's [that "liter" thing] some kind of measurement in USA. I'm pretty sure it's close enough to a metric LITRE that the rest of the world don't bother with it.

    Edit: Damn it... I clicked reply instead of quote... meant to quote the comment about the "liter".

    Addendum (2009-04-15 05:14): This quote... damn time limit...

    Slyer:
    What the hell is a liter?
  • (cs) in reply to pink_fairy
    pink_fairy:
    ...In this case, philologists speculate that it's merely short-hand for "excuse me buddy, but could you spare a dime for a cup of brackish hydrogen dioxide?" Quite popular round Redfern, I hear...

    Strange water they have Down Under.

  • voyeur (unregistered)

    When you are headed out to the Pittsburgh, PA airport, at one fork in the highway the overhead signs direct you to choose between Moon and Beaver (two actual nearby towns). I've always pictured that your choice determined which side of the stewardesses shower room your peephole was on.

  • (cs)
  • Winelush (unregistered)

    Buy 18 bottles and get a 5% discount ;)

  • Pestulant (unregistered) in reply to dkf
    dkf:
    DWalker59:
    When I visited Hawai'i, I got a T-shirt that showed a picture of the humuhumunukunukuapua'a fish, captioned "swim softly and carry a big name". I think it's the state fish of Hawai'i.
    My favorite fish back when I was about 7 was always the lau wiliwili nukunuku 'oi'oi, on the grounds that I had a t-shirt with it on and the name always made me giggle.
    Wannahockaloogie?
  • Jadawin (unregistered) in reply to rfsmit

    WikiTravel tells us:

    The name was coined as a publicity gimmick in the 1860s by concatenating the names of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll ("St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel"), the nearby hamlet of Llantysilio Gogogoch ("the church of St Tysilio of the red cave"), and the chwyrn drobwll ("rapid whirlpool") between them.

    But ALL names are made up...by someone!

  • caper (unregistered)

    I've been to Joe Batt's Arm.

    Suprisingly nice for a wind swept rock in the Atlantic. At least that's how my memory from decades ago appears.

  • (cs) in reply to Pestulant
    Pestulant:
    dkf:
    DWalker59:
    When I visited Hawai'i, I got a T-shirt that showed a picture of the humuhumunukunukuapua'a fish, captioned "swim softly and carry a big name". I think it's the state fish of Hawai'i.
    My favorite fish back when I was about 7 was always the lau wiliwili nukunuku 'oi'oi, on the grounds that I had a t-shirt with it on and the name always made me giggle.
    Wannahockaloogie?
    Is it possible you're thinking of that famous flightless (and short-legged) fowl, the Ooomagoolie bird?
  • (cs) in reply to Leak
    Leak:
    Pol:
    There's a place near me called Biggar!
    You've got to be Fucking kidding me...

    Well, we Upper Austrians got that while the Bavarians are more into Petting...

    That's probably why Bavaria is also home to Mount Wank:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wank,_Bavaria

  • Jeroen (unregistered)

    TRWTF is: Comic Sans (Wine price)

  • stevo (unregistered)

    the price on the wine must be in canadian dollars

  • Pestulant (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Pestulant:
    dkf:
    DWalker59:
    When I visited Hawai'i, I got a T-shirt that showed a picture of the humuhumunukunukuapua'a fish, captioned "swim softly and carry a big name". I think it's the state fish of Hawai'i.
    My favorite fish back when I was about 7 was always the lau wiliwili nukunuku 'oi'oi, on the grounds that I had a t-shirt with it on and the name always made me giggle.
    Wannahockaloogie?
    Is it possible you're thinking of that famous flightless (and short-legged) fowl, the Ooomagoolie bird?
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mount+wannahockaloogie
  • billswift (unregistered)

    That first thing reminded me of something - has anyone else noticed that the unit pricing labels in grocery stores are often screwed up? Since they are printed out automatically, I guess that means all grocery stores hire incompetent programmers (or their software suppliers do).

  • I <3 MFD (unregistered)

    The Gay Village in Manchester is located on Canal Street, there's always graffiti over the C and S.

  • Spudd86 (unregistered)

    I fail to see the WTF in the Imgburn dialogue box, it is accurate, just very poorly worded.

    If you don't already know about the physical data layout restrictions that restrict bitrate/logical layout, understanding ANY message that conveys the fact that your image will probably screw up if you burn it and try to play it in DVD player (instead of a PC, PC's have faster drives, so they can avoid a hitch in playback a 1x drive in a player cannot).

    Fact is that a good message here is nigh impossible, although a much better one than given could be written, the example is not incorrect, just confusing, much like this post :P

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