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Until now I always had problems with perceiving the OLD woman in that picture @0:27secs. Thank you ROCKETBOOM for enhancing my senses!
Today is Car Free Day in Montreal. All forms of public transit, except taxis, are FREE and a several block square area in the downtown core has been cordoned off to all motorized vehicles.
It has gone over well in previous years but perhaps today the novelty finally wore thin as commuters were jammed in one of the city’s worst traffic mornings.
Damn glad I live out here in the country!
The Astronaut job app states as one of its key requirement that:
- Frequent travel may be required
lexical ambiguity:
Q: What has four wheels and flies?
A: A garbage truck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31oKQNEzjC4
(there’s nothing else to say)
The Chinese “shi” bit is missing one key letter & that would be a T
Todays cartoon
later people
Like in \’tshi\’?!?!
*alternate caption for cartoon:
\”What part of NYC are you from?\”
\”Bite me, burger boy!\”
“Have you seen The Saw Shank Redemption?”
“Huh?”
Hey,
How come we don’t get the Romanian translations anymore?! What happened to your crew? I thought they were doing an amazing job! Any chance you can wake them up and get them back to work?
disappointedly yours truly,
Erl (possibly future former viewer)
Dude, the translations are done through online community translation efforts - for free. The good people doing them up until now probably lost steam. Your English appears good and you obviously know Romanian; maybe YOU can get that party started again!
Give it a try - it’s pretty easy with that dotSub application.
Following up on C-C, here’s our dotSUB page: http://dotsub.com/home/user/index.php?target=38
Please help translate if you can!
PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. SEND THIS OVER TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKs
I once had coffee with both Steven Pinker and Walter J. Ong (this was all just a dream, of course) at the Java Script Cafe, up there just outside of Bean-Town.
Walter looked over at Steven and bellowed, \”Very illusory.\”
Steven thought to himself about all the stuff he knows, but couldn\’t find the words to say it.
Walter took out his handkerchief to wipe his brow; sneezed, then said pardon me.
Everyone gave the unisonous reply of: \”No problem.\” (I\’m sure, dear reader, that you probably saw this on YouTube).
Meanwhile, Bruno Bettlehiem and Karen Horney, M.D., (whose famous name, unfortunately, also resembles some slang vernacular) were seated at the next table. He listened intently as she recited a fabled fairy tale with flamboyant zeal, remotely and from memory; her fine mind, her brilliant brain, her captivating countenance.
I belched, and stumbled upon some wayward words along a thin path inside my head. They rolled around a bit, and bounced around behind my temples. Then I uttered them: \”Fear of tripping in the thick fog grows.\”
Visit your linguistic scholar today!
RSS Feed isn\’t working on my Safari, thought you should know…
No Car Day? Strange. WTF? A degree for sending a bottle rocket to the moon? First time on Rocketboom. Will not be my last.
Throw the cow over the fence some hay.
Bottle rocket to the moon? Kinda like October sky… but not.
Equally interesting a sentences that exploit English grammar rules and look wrong, but are actually perfectly grammatical.
For example; “The man the boy the girl the dog bit teased saw left” and “I told that clerk who looked the woman who took the child in up of you”. In the first; “The man left -> The man [(that) the boy saw] left” -> The man [(that) the boy [(that) the girl teased] saw ] left” and so on. For the second; “I told that clerk of you” -> “I told that clerk [who looked the woman up] of you” and so on. It’s embedding recursion. Fun!
In Japanese the sentence æ±çŽ‹ã‚’追ㆠmeans “I will follow the Eastern King” and is pronounced “toooooooh” (7 syllables’ worth of “oh”).
What\’s Craigslist.com? I know about Craigslist.org and that site looks almost exactly like the \”Craigslist.com\” you presented. Interesting.
Genius stuff! Shishi shi shi