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octavian
05-24-2004, 17:04
off my e-mail


EVER WONDER...



...why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

...why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

...why you don't ever see the headline Psychic Wins Lottery?

...why abbreviated is such a long word?

...why doctors call what they do practice?

...why you have to click on Start to stop Windows 98?

...why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, while dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons?

...why the man who invests all your money is called a broker?

...why there isn't mouse-flavored cat food?

...who tastes dog food when it has a new & improved flavor?

...why Noah didn't swat those two mosquitoes?

...why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

...why they don't make the whole plane out of the material used for the indestructible black box ?

...why sheep don't shrink when it rains?

...why they are called apartments when they are all stuck together?

...if con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

...why they call the airport the terminal if flying is so safe?

AND...
In case you need further proof that the human race is doomed because of stupidity, here are some actual label instructions on consumer goods.

On a Sears hairdryer: Do not use while sleeping. (darn, and that's the only time I have to work on my hair).

On a bag of Fritos: You could be a winner No purchase necessary. Details inside. (the shoplifter special?)

On a bar of Dial soap: Directions: Use like regular soap. (and that would be how???....)

On some Swanson frozen dinners: Serving suggestion: Defrost. (but, it's just a suggestion).

On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom): Do not turn upside down. (well...duh, a bit late, huh)

On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: Product will be hot after heating. (...and you thought????...)

On packaging for a Rowenta iron: Do not iron clothes on body. (but wouldn't this save me more time?)

On Boot's Children Cough Medicine:Do not drive a car or operate machinery after taking this medication. (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents if we could just get those 5-year-olds with head-colds off those forklifts.)
On Nytol Sleep Aid: Warning: May cause drowsiness. (and...I'm taking this because???....)

On most brands of Christmas lights: For indoor or outdoor use only. (as opposed to...what?)
On a Japanese food processor: Not to be used for the other use. (now, somebody out there, help me on this. I'm a bit curious.)

On Sunsbury's peanuts: Warning: contains nuts. (talk about a news flash)
On an American Airlines packet of nuts: Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts. (Step 3: maybe, uh...fly Delta?)

I don't blame the company. I blame the parents for this one: On a child's superman costume: Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly.

On a Swedish chainsaw: Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals. (...was there a lot of this happening somewhere?)

Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread the stupidity and send this to someone you want to bring a smile to (maybe even a chuckle)...in other words send it to everyone. We all need to smile every once in a while.

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Cebei
05-24-2004, 17:16
ROFLLLLL

Mouzafphaerre
05-24-2004, 17:45
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The English Language


Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb thru annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.
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Mouzafphaerre
05-24-2004, 17:47
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A First Lesson of German for Newbies

German language is relatively easy. Who knows Latin and is used to declinations can learn it very quickly. This is what German teachers say in the first lesson. You began studying der, des, dem, den, die and after that all goes easily. Pretty easy. Now we'll see an instance:

We'll start by taking a great german book, let's say a beautiful volume with luxury printing, published in Dortmund, and which talks about the uses and life of Hotentots (in german, Hottentotten)

It says that kangaroos (Beutelratten) are captured and taken into cages (Kotter), sheltered with a fabric (Lattengitter) to protect them from the sun. This cages covered by a fabric are called in german cages covered with fabric, that is, Lattengitterkotter, and when the kangaroo is inside them, they become Lattengitterkotterbeutelratten: the kangaroo inside the cage covered with fabric.

One day, the Hotentots arrested an assassin (Attentatter), charged of killing the mother (mutter) of a Hotentot (hottentottermutter); the mother had a son who was dumb and stutterer (stottertrottel). This mother will take in geman the name of Hottentottenstottertrottelmutter and his murderer would be the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentater.

Now the Police has captured the murderer and has imprisoned him in a kangaroo cage (beutelrattenlattengitterkotter), but the murdered escaped.

Then the pursue starts and soon comes a Hotentot warrior saying:

- I've captured the murderer
- What murderer?, asks the Chief.
- The Lattengitterkotterbeutelrattenattentatter, says the warrior.
- The murderer in the kangaroo cage covered with fabric?, asks the Hotentot Chieftain.
- No, he is the -hardly can say the Warrior- Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentater (the murderer of the Hotentot mother of the child dumb and stutterer)
- Oh, that -says the Hotentot cheiftain-. Why don't you started by simply saying that you had captured the Hottentotterstottertrottelmutterbeutelrattenlattengitterkotterattentater?

Now you can see, German is as easy as this. You only need to pay a little atention...
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solypsist
05-24-2004, 18:27
schooled.

BDC
05-24-2004, 18:31
Quote[/b] ]Hottentotterstottertrottelmutterbeutelrattenlattengitterkotterattentater

Not a language to use in text messages then...

octavian
05-24-2004, 22:55
rofl Mouzafphaerre http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/bigthumb.gif

Cebei
05-24-2004, 23:42
Quote[/b] ]Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentater

Actually we shouldnt think it is too unique given the cute difficulties of our Turkish language like Cekoslavakyalilastiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz?. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wacko.gif

Edit: My post count reaches the year of Ottoman State's foundation http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

son of spam
05-25-2004, 06:23
r we doomed?

YEZ WE R

Mouzafphaerre
05-25-2004, 09:56
Quote[/b] (Cebei @ May 25 2004,01:42)]Edit: My post count reaches the year of Ottoman State's foundation http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif
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Never post again to keep it at that. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
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