Very cute.
Gymnastics fans - did you guys see this piece on overtraining and the US team?
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Aug 12, 2008 9:43:50 am PDT #2819 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Sophia Brooks - Aug 12, 2008 9:46:10 am PDT #2820 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
You mean like how the cow doesn't go "moo", but more like möö?
Yes! And a cat doesn't say "meow" but more like rIA-OAWw.
Jesse - Aug 12, 2008 9:47:08 am PDT #2821 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Reading other people's posts here made me smile. There has been a lot of bitter laughter around my office today, but I don't think that counts.
No one in my office except for the guy who just graduated from college knew what an LOLcat was. Even after I showed them, they said they had never seen one! I am shocked! Also, sometimes I talk in LOLcat, and they must think I am crazy, not funny!
I'm sure I posted here at the time, but I couldn't believe our IT person didn't know about the LOLcats! After she was showing me funny pictures of her cat!!
DavidS - Aug 12, 2008 9:49:15 am PDT #2822 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
She's right, too! I remember being annoyed when I realized that the animals didn't actually sound like the word for their sound.
They did a funny piece in the Comics Journal once about the conventions of animal noises in different countries.
Because France and Germany and Italy don't transliterate their animal noises into anything like "Bark! Bark!" or "Moo!"
I vaguely remember there being an example of a German cartoon with the cow making the noise: "rumpelknorrr"
Dogs tend to say "Wow wow!" in other countries or "Whuff!"
As if!
megan walker - Aug 12, 2008 9:54:44 am PDT #2823 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
cat = miaou
dog = wouah! wouah!
cow = meuh
rooster = cocorico
duck = coin coin
So much more accurate (except the rooster, that is whack).
tommyrot - Aug 12, 2008 9:56:20 am PDT #2824 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
duck = coin coin
duck = Aflac!
amych - Aug 12, 2008 9:57:50 am PDT #2825 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
(except the rooster, that is whack).
Now I want to waste the rest of the afternoon on an international rooster-sound tour. Because "cocorico" is whack, yes, but so much less so than "cock-a-doodle-doo". I've never heard a rooster pronounce a single "D", let alone three of them!
Nora Deirdre - Aug 12, 2008 9:57:56 am PDT #2826 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
This conversation reminds me of a David Sedaris bit that had to do with the Dutch version of Santa Claus. It started out talking about how to get to the heart of a foreign country- first you ask about its gun laws, then the sounds that barnyard animals make, and finally what their take on Santa Claus. In the Netherlands he is accompanied by "Six to Eight Black Men" which is the title of the piece.
It is effing HILARIOUS.
Sue - Aug 12, 2008 9:59:32 am PDT #2827 of 10003
hip deep in pie
I love that essay, Nora.
amych - Aug 12, 2008 10:00:04 am PDT #2828 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
In the Netherlands he is accompanied by "Six to Eight Black Men" which is the title of the piece.
Oh, yes! And if you're bad, he beats you and steals your shoes? Or something?