Comments on: Is this some kind of code or something?

By: Hakencat

Hakencat — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:22:04 +0000

win!

By: Hakencat

Hakencat — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:21:35 +0000

oh come on not even trying xD!

By: Kame09

Kame09 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:53:37 +0000

Dyslexia Engrish Strikes again!

By: Xer

Xer — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:45:30 +0000

It’s gotta suck to be michael collins… went all the way out there, didn’t get to be on the moon, and nobody remembers him…

By: g2524

g2524 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:25:55 +0000

I’m a troll, thought i could not possibly divulge such information. The troll king would not be best pleased…
wow i need to think about the direction of my life….

By: lorrelcoastel

lorrelcoastel — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:57:38 +0000

Ah, got it! Took me a while to figure out this is the Kennedy speech…

By: baby puncher

baby puncher — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:21:18 +0000

WHERE CAN I GET THIS SHIRT

By: Matt Scheaffer

Matt Scheaffer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:16:03 +0000

It is probably Lipsum.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:46:04 +0000

My towels don’t usually talk to me…

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:06:20 +0000

Is that what your towels say?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:05:13 +0000

SLEENME’s comin’, hide your heart Paul
SLEENME’s comin’, hide your heart Paul
Paul! SLEENME’S comin’, you better hide
Paul! SLEENME’S comin’, you better hide
Paul! SLEENME’S comin’, hide your heart, Paul.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:22:49 +0000

I was thinking more of Hisko and Herko.

By: baldrick

baldrick — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:29:43 +0000

Or Andy Kaufman

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:07:17 +0000

Wasn’t he one of a pair of birds, Herko and Jerko?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:06:01 +0000

Why? Are you namkirb?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:19:26 +0000

They are actually marketed for young adults, but any cat or cat lover will enjoy them. They are about feral cats living in the forest, and yes, they all have teeth. There are also supernatural elements.

By: xxjasminee

xxjasminee — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:43:39 +0000

Pheobe: Je m’appelle Claude.
Joey: Ge me bli bloop.

By: amathistblue

amathistblue — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:44:30 +0000

It’s the unpublished poem from the Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland.
Oh, what Johnny Depp could do with this!

By: dr handle

dr handle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:19:05 +0000

The language can be a bit tricky to start with – I found that initially, reading it out loud helped because you could understand what the gist of a sentence was, even if you didn’t get every single word exactly right. In places, it’s just old-fashioned bawdy, and for some reason (maybe because I have a puerile brain in that way) the middle ages spellings just made it even funnier: “He kysd her un her nekked erse!”

By: dr handle

dr handle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:16:02 +0000

Oh, Trimalchio!

By: dr handle

dr handle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:11:07 +0000

J’ai perdu la plume de ma tante dans le jardin, ou il y a beacoup de merde du chien.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:25:26 +0000

Fellini’s Satyricon is also excellent.
I gave up on staying current with popular fiction. It began to appeal to me less and less.
Don’t know Erin Hunter, does it have any tooth to it?

By: Mchl

Mchl — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:22:26 +0000

That’s what she said!

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:07:40 +0000

Do you know Herko?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:06:21 +0000

I like knowing about things I haven't read yet that I might like. I've been pretty busy lately, though, so it is taking me much longer than it should to read what I've been reading. I'm reading the Warriors series by Erin Hunter, and I'm on the third series. Back in the day, I could have read at least two or three of the books in a day, but now, with everything else taking up my time, it is sometimes taking me over a week to finish just one! I only get time to read a little here and there, mostly at lunch.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:56:58 +0000

My borogoves are all a-mimsy.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:55:44 +0000

I’ve looked at Hisko
From both sides now
From ‘ and *
And still somehow
Hisko’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know Hisko at all

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:52:18 +0000

Agreed. Oh, when I was a teen, I had no social life, but I’d knock down three, four, five books in a weekend. Fiction, nonfiction, classics, and lots and lots of sci-fi. Whenever I haven’t been in school, I have tended to read a lot more, because when I’m taking courses I have to do so much reading that I don’t feel much like picking up a book if I have a spare moment. I often state that formal schooling can be hazardous to your education.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:49:09 +0000

The pace you’ve been running at is just fine!

By: bluejade

bluejade — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:36:56 +0000

You ask that a lot… anything that hangs around in the culture for that long has something going for it.
Some writers transcend their time, and Chaucer was one of them.
Look for writers who speak beyond their own lifetime, and you can’t go wrong. They may be difficult to read, but once they’re under your belt you’ve got something no one can take away.

I bet you would LOVE Petronius!!!!
Give “Satyricon” a try.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:25:15 +0000

I’m in the same crunch for time, JohnB, I understand! Most of what I have read, I read before I was 25. I am very grateful now for the habit I once had of devouring books; I could not do that now. I also come here because I need the laughs. I think contemplating the absurdity of the language and the responses helps keep me more alert for the other challenges…

By: la conejita

la conejita — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:30:22 +0000

We will all be running at full capacity to help out.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:23:35 +0000

I don’t recall ever reading Chaucer, either. Is that any good?

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:21:21 +0000

I’ll do what I can.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:18:37 +0000

The other side stores asterisks.

By: Lawlin' at things noone else ever lawls at like the word moose/ also the CEO of TrollsOnTrial; We make you the FIRST one in court!

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:40:50 +0000

Gland head, what?

By: dr handle

dr handle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:11:34 +0000

Beware the jabberwock!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:20:52 +0000

At the moment, I have a full-time job, a disabled wife, a very demanding ten-year-old daughter, am working on a doctorate, am performing ministerial functions when I have time, and now, when my father has momderate Alzheimer’s disease and my mother is in failing health herself, I have agreed to take them in, and they’ll be moving here in three weeks. The list of things I need to do is never-ending; the list of things I’d like to do if I ever have time is extremely long, and I’ve reached an age when I’m coming to realize that many of those may never be done. And no offense, but Beowulf is not near the top of that list right now. That’s why I feel such a strong need for humor, because if I can’t laugh I am lost. I’m not looking for sympathy or even empathy, because I know that there isn’t anything that’s going to happen that God won’t help me handle. He showed me his grace when I was utterly lost and didn’t deserve it, and so I know he won’t fail me now. But thank you all for the laughs, which help immeasureably.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:04:05 +0000

I had no patience in those days, and for titillation had already discovered sources that required considerably less effort. So I puzzled out enough to pass the tests, a strategy I used often back then.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:51:54 +0000

I always felt sorry for Grendel – talk about a bum deal. I wanted to hit Hrothgar over the head with a blunt object.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:50:58 +0000

I try to nest my comment under keithybabes’ observation about the similarity to old Norse.

I fail.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:49:36 +0000

They wouldn’t let us read The Wife of Bath’s Tale when we were doing Chaucer at high school, so naturally we went and looked it up for ourselves. I loved reading Chaucer.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:16:57 +0000

It’s been awhile; is “Grendel” the one where Beowulf is blind from bee stings, but he can see forms as golden light? I found those passages really beautiful.

JohnB, just kind of relax and go with it and it suddenly clicks and makes sense… the more you do it the easier it gets…

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:35:53 +0000

If you liked Chaucer, you might like Beowulf. If, like me, you get headaches trying to translate archaic spellings into words you recognize, give it a pass.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:30:38 +0000

I thought Hisko was the apostrophe depository.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:28:02 +0000

Many engineers would agree with that, since they tend to be quantitative people and are sometimes less skilled with words. As someone who taught statistics to graduate students in psychology, education, and counseling, I can assure you that many of them are utterly terrified of the simplest equations, even some whose spelling is flawless.

By: laconejita

laconejita — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:07:43 +0000

I read both of them in English AP class in High School. The Beowulf was hard for me back then because they use old German English. “Grendel” was a lot easier to read. And once you see things from his point of view, you even feel sorry for him.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:26:15 +0000

Yes, it does make more sense that way.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:23:49 +0000

I liked it, but that may not be a ringing endorsement, as I would read anything then. There is a book called “Grendel” by John Gardner which I liked. It is written from the monster’s point of view.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:12:03 +0000

Is that where you keep your asterisks?