Tree Bucket posted:

Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek.
Probably "kangaroo" will turn out to be French-Canadian or something next.

Tree Bucket posted:

Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek.
Probably "kangaroo" will turn out to be French-Canadian or something next.

Tree Bucket posted:

Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek.
Probably "kangaroo" will turn out to be French-Canadian or something next.

Tiggum posted:

Americans say "ee-moo". It's actually pronounced "eem-yoo".

Solemn Sloth posted:

cryptic crosswords are bad, hth

Zetsubou-san posted:

A retort follows this jumbled refrain of puckering oily mouths (4, 4, 4, 7)

Pirate Radar posted:

If I go to Nullarbor and I see even one tree I’m going to have some choice words for the manager

Pirate Radar posted:

If I go to Nullarbor and I see even one tree I’m going to have some choice words for the manager

Tree Bucket posted:

Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek.
Probably "kangaroo" will turn out to be French-Canadian or something next.

Inceltown posted:

God luck finding the manager. The shop is massive.

Tree Bucket posted:

Google tells me "emu" comes from the Portuguese word for "ostrich." This is deeply upsetting. It's as bad as working out that "Nullarbor" is actually Latin and "echidna" is greek.
Probably "kangaroo" will turn out to be French-Canadian or something next.

Dareon posted:

As someone with a passing fancy for Latin and a penchant for spotting latinate roots, I'm curious what y'all thought Nullarbor was, if not Latin.

Dareon posted:

As someone with a passing fancy for Latin and a penchant for spotting latinate roots, I'm curious what y'all thought Nullarbor was, if not Latin.

Phlegmish posted:

It's something that's obvious in retrospect because of 'arbor', but at first glance it seems like something out of Lord of the Rings. I assume people thought it was an aboriginal name.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Since when the gently caress would Lord of the Rings have a place without trees

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Please don't bring negative emotions into the "Everyone is going to die" thread

Ghost Leviathan posted:

According to my research it has at least one.



Though otherwise the name is not ironic.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Just noticed I have a book on cybernetics from the 70s. I bet if I read it I could build a robocow.

jesus WEP posted:

we gonna rock down to
electric cow go moo

Lord Awkward posted:

born in a cave
raised on a mountain
trucking and loving
for years beyond countin'

Phy posted:

Also, is it pronounced "Nuller-bore"?

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

kan-garou, feared cousin of the loup-garou?

lol but posted:

the abstract notion of feeling almost totally at ease but you might later (but not right now) need to piss

elise the great posted:

loving A-grade right here

Breakfast All Day posted:

if trump really respects keyboard warriors he will finally fund the tomb of the anon poster

D. Ebdrup posted:

Covers, you say? Here's the first one I read:

_{It's the Danish version, where they transliterated the title of the book.}

The Bloop posted:

My name is a jilling word

Ruffian Price posted:

The future will just be empty airplanes flying in circles around the world while the last remaining executives pretend it makes the economy go.

Powered Descent posted:

There Will Come Soft Planes

Phy posted:

Also, is it pronounced "Nuller-bore"? That would go a long way towards disguising that it's just Latin for "no bloody trees"

1865, Henry Kingsley posted:

"a hideous anomaly, a blot on the face of Nature, the sort of place one gets into in bad dreams".

Tip posted:

It's "Intim Report", but I should probably just tell the full story.

My friend didn't know about this porn, I discovered it one day after he had bragged to me that his father made music for a bunch of movies and I decided to look him up. His IMDB did include a bunch of music credits but they were almost all old German porn.

I thought that was pretty funny until I noticed he had one acting credit, also old German porn, titled "Intim Report". It was a news-themed porn from 1968, and I knew I had to find it. I spent months looking for this drat movie, trying everything I could. Eventually I posted to an online forum asking for help and someone managed to find an eMule link for it that had a single seeder at like 2 KB/s.

It took weeks to download, but when I got it it was a jackpot! I scrubbed through and very quickly spotted his dad, who as a young man looked almost exactly like my friend. In the scene his dad was loving a morbidly obese woman doggy style, her rolls knocking together like a Newton's cradle, as a woman in a hot pink dress suit interviewed him in German.

We lived together and kept our computers in the living room, so I just waited until he was out of the room and then pulled it up on my computer. When he came back he stopped behind me, staring, he said "What are we watching here?", and I said, "We're watching your dad gently caress a morbidly obese German woman."

He really tried his best to deny it, despite the fact it was obviously his dad. He said, "My dad wouldn't wear a gold necklace, that can't be him", and then he asked if he could have a copy of it. He studied it, trying to disprove it, he once ran up to me and said, "This is gonna sound weird, but, his penis doesn't look like my penis, I don't think it's him."

Several years later his dad died, and he asked his mom about the porn. She said, "I don't know, sounds like him though." At his funeral it was what everyone was whispering about, apparently the news made it to the rest of his family. They showed a tribute video with pictures of his dad over his life, but they had trouble finding pictures of him as a young man so they inserted some cropped stills of his face from "Intim Report".

I couldn't loving believe it. I still die laughing just thinking about it.

The Walrus posted:

once i lived in a rooming house with a german named Till who ate nothing but jasmine rice and got mad when my girlfriend and I were awake past 10 PM

Icochet posted:

I'm a German named Till and I once lived in a rooming house with an American who ate all my food except my rice (they thought rice was gay) and blasted Wheatus every night starting at 10 PM. They owned a pot-bellied pig named Girlfriend

ChubbyChecker posted:

Skwirl posted:

Thank god I'm only sexually attracted to Volkswagen Beetles, unlike all you freaks.

minato posted:

Be careful you don't catch herbies.

Phlegmish posted:

80% of the time I have no idea what you guys are talking about but I just take my cue from other goons and add a 'lol' or 'lmao what a bad graph', hoping that no one will notice that I don't understand statistics

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Have you considered a career in consulting?

Maxwells Demon posted:

Ah, so which college are you employed as a Dean in?

ranbo das posted:

Which DC think tank are you a part of?

Munin posted:

Which circuit are you a judge in?

ChubbyChecker posted:

Captain Hygiene posted:

The US space program spent several years and millions of dollars developing a space suit with a specialized velcro fitting for astronauts to scratch their nose, the Soviets just used a pencil to sign the execution orders of anyone who complained of an itch

Hedrigall posted:

When I was a little goon
I asked the forums “define minors for me”
“Is there a cutoff? How young is fine?”
Here’s what they said to me

Que Seraph, Seraph
That question is too skeezy
A permaban upon thee
Que Seraph, Seraph

Absurd Alhazred posted: