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Unless your target market are Trolls (see discworld)
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I was in Columbus over the weekend. I had forgotten how much I missed Hawaiian barbecue joints. I never forgot how much I missed noodle shops.
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AFAIK this happened long before Australia was a place. The name Austria dates back to at least the 12th century CE. So it wasn't Anglicised; it was Latinised. In fact Austria and Österreich may simply share a common ancestor rather than one being a translation of the other.
Australia was probably called that to make the convicts think they were going somewhere where there was Gluhwein and chocolate, rather than a fauna and flora - no, let's just say a biota - that was 99.9% lethal to humans. (And 0.1% just gave you a nasty rash.)
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:facepalm:
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The colony of New South Wales. Then also the colonies of Victoria, Van Dieman's Land, etc. "Australia" didn't officially exist until 1901 when all those colonies got together and federated.
"Australia" of course comes from Terra Australis, southern land, which Cook was directed to investigate during his explorations after observing the transit of Venus.
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Australia came 5th in Eurovision, so they're one of the best countries in Europe at TV
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You are of course literally correct, though my "probably" wasn't intended seriously. OK, my jokes are obviously too feeble to be taken as such.
Incidentally Mark Twain once wrote an amusing account of how the various colonies in Australia (the continent) went in for commercial warfare with one another. This was one of the occasions on which building railways was a substitute for military activity.
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I have a globe jigsaw of a very old world map. It has something approximating to the Americas on it, but below what's just about identifiable as Asia it has only a vague shape labelled 'Terra Australis Incognita' - unknown southern land.
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I'm seeing a suspicious lack of kangaroos in lederhosen in GIS.
Internet: you disappoint me! :shakes_fist:
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There is an advertisement on UK TV about Dreamies (a cat treat) where just shaking the pack will cause the cat to rush towards the sound. Through walls if necessary.
I have cats, I've shook the Dreamies pack (a good way to get them in the house, even for the vet - but you have to "train" them first). So I can belive it.
The irony is, that it probably would actual happen if houses in the UK were build with "dry walls".
Hopefully this link will show some / all the advert. My workplace blocks sites like this, so I just guessing here based on goggle results.
Note: I have posted this here and now because it has nothing to do with Austria or Australia, lederhosen, kangaroos or anything else arising out of my typo. Other than as a poignant observation about the almost pavlovian aspect of introducing such a thing. Not that I mind or anything, I just find it amusing or hilarious at times.
I will leave the exercise of connecting the dots to the students.
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We have the same commercial but they are called differently ... some stupid name with 'cat' in it
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...and/or you are called C.M.O.T Dibbler.
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No, but I like the way you're thinking :wink:
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People make fun of Cleveland because the horror of cities like Camden (NJ), Detroit, Chester (PA), and Saginaw is beyond humor. It's like how in school, people would make fun of the kid who dressed weirdly, but picking on the kid with one leg three inches shorter than the other was off limits. Well, at least at my school, which wasn't in a lawless hellhole like Camden, Detroit, Saginaw, or Chester.
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Be careful what you ask for. GIS didn't turn up anything, but regular Google search found these: (Note: The first one showed up on two sites, Tumblr and a furry site; this is linked from Tumblr.) [image] [image]
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I can feel the last remnants of my innocence being washed away..........
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Don't leave us hanging!! Did the spider get to eat?
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Well of course there had to be a large southern landmass, otherwise the earth wouldn't have been balanced!
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And we call that one Antarctica ...
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No no no no! Antarctica provides the ballast to keep the world upright. America / Australia provide a balance system to reduce the tilt. (For the sake of completeness, the Pacific Islands are for fine tuning. Which is why they come and go, as they do).
The balancing system was sufficiently stable and efficient for millions of years. Then Americans started getting obese and the Australians started working in European bars.
So much so the system is out of wack and cannot compensate.
We face a future where everything we know is about to be turned on its head
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Easy solution: start a pro-obese movement in Australia
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I wonder what Euro in the Eurovision stands for.
TIL
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Mons Purgatorius, if you believe Dante. It shows how far we have come in just 700 years, that an intelligent man 700 years ago could suggest that the Mountain of Purgatory could occupy the Southern Ocean (opposite Jerusalem) because Europeans hadn't extended past a relatively small part of the Earth, while Polynesians were navigating all over the Pacific but didn't have a written language.
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Something I wouldn't buy any of just at the moment.
I think it was a joke, like pendantic...I hope it was...
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Wait, are we allowed to make non-joke posts in here? I might try that at some later time.
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No, Australia really were in Eurovision this year.
It was a special one-off for the 60th Eurovision, and because apparently the Aussies just love Eurovision. They would have been allowed to compete again next year if they had won, because the winner always gets in.
China apparently want to compete next year...
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Ahhh, something to look forward to:EuroAustralasiaChinavison Song contest. Not!
If only it because it would open the floodgates for USAEuroAustralasiaChinavision Song Contest.
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Australia won't be in it again.
But they do have a pretty loose definition of Europe - the criterion for eligibility is membership of the European Broadcasting Union, which produces Eurovision, and they extend a fair way into Asia and North Africa, though few of those countries choose to compete, apparently in many cases out of protest at Israel being allowed to.
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would Usavision have to be pronounced / spelt Usaavision to make it sound "right"???
Usa a vision - so much for Markdown rules