When I did my big back-packing trip I learned please, thank you, yes, no, bathroom, and 'coffee with milk and sugar' in several languages. I got by alright.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
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Trudy Booth - Apr 13, 2003 2:42:01 am PDT #3300 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
billytea - Apr 13, 2003 2:42:29 am PDT #3301 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Billytea ought to approve of this detail: the chief of Asterix's Gallic tribe is named Vitalstitistix.
I do indeed. Love the Asterix comics. (The potion-brewing druid, BTW, is called Getafix.)
Zoe Ann - Apr 13, 2003 2:43:33 am PDT #3302 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
** = "accessible"! God, that's weird, I just couldn't think of that word for about two minutes. I'm going mad.
Happens to me ALL the time. I end up making mad hand gesture signals to try and convey the word *kettle* to incredulous looking people.
P.M. Marc - Apr 13, 2003 2:44:37 am PDT #3303 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
You do have Tintin in the US though, don't you? So it's not like you're totally unreceptive to Euro-comics.
We have both, yes. I think, though, that there are more Asterix fans than Tintin fans, although my ex-officemate was *very* into Tintin.
evil jimi - Apr 13, 2003 2:47:29 am PDT #3304 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
damn, the English version of the Asterix site, didn't work :(
what was the name of the minstrel who was constantly getting smacked upside the head, or tied and gagged? I always loved that. :)
Trudy Booth - Apr 13, 2003 2:47:35 am PDT #3305 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
PM out-geeks me on this... but I'd heard of Tin Tin and not Asterix.
Zoe Ann - Apr 13, 2003 2:49:17 am PDT #3306 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
what was the name of the minstrel who was constantly getting smacked upside the head, or tied and gagged? I always loved that. :)
Cachophonix
evil jimi - Apr 13, 2003 2:53:04 am PDT #3307 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
btw ... I have owned a small, B&W paperback version of Asterix and Cleopatra for around 25 years and I still read it occasionally.
*ding!*
"Cacofonix" is the name of the bard. :)
Edit: to illustrate the neat humour of Asterix.
In Asterix and Cleopatra, the speech balloons of the Egyptians are filled with "hieroglyphs" and translations are generally included at the bottom of the panel. Sounds lame but works really well. :)
Zoe Ann - Apr 13, 2003 2:56:00 am PDT #3308 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
"Cacofonix" is the name of the bard. :)
From the word "cacophony" meaning an appauling and calamatous noise.
Vitalstatistix is VERY fat.
I am trying to recall some of the Roman names.
Je ne sais que mon Francais est bon a assez pour le navigation de la website.
Bwah. Je me ne trouver pas le Romans a toque.
evil jimi - Apr 13, 2003 3:01:58 am PDT #3309 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I am trying to recall some of the Roman names.
In A&C, you have "Superflous", "Mintjulep" and "Operachorus".
Oh and Obelix's little dog is called "Dogmatix" (in the English version anyway)