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- From: jfinn@ll.mit.edu (Joe Finnivan)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Sesquipedalian Sayings, et cetera
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.201358.9824@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:13:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ll.1993Jan25.201358.9824
- References: <21270@ksr.com> <1993Jan22.101302.5143@memstvx1.memst.edu>
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- Reply-To: jfinn@ll.mit.edu (Joe Finnivan)
- Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington MA
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- Originator: jfinn@ll.mit.edu (Joe Finnivan)
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- In article <1993Jan22.101302.5143@memstvx1.memst.edu>, nealhd@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
- |> In article <21270@ksr.com>, johnk@ksr.com (John Kavazanjian) writes:
- |> > I have a request from a friend to find something that someone around may
- |> > still have. Here it is:
- |> >
- |> > Two years ago, someone faxed me a two-page list of
- |> > common folk sayings translated into sesquipedelian (sp?)
- |> > terminology, to whit:
- |> >
- |> > Scintillate, Scintillate Asteroid Minific
- |> > (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)
- |> >
- |> > You get the idea.
- |>
- |> And a good one it is! Let's just start our own list. Break out the
- |> dictionaries and thesauri - here we go. (And don't explain them unless
- |> they are particularly abstruse or the references are especially esoteric.)
- |> Remember, correct spelling and accurate attribution is important here.
- |>
- |> An overabundance of talent skilled in the preparation of gastronomic
- |> concoctions will impair the quality of a certain potable solution made
- |> by immersing a gallinaceous bird in ebullient Adam's ale.
- |>
- |> --
- |>
- |> oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo
- |> oo1oo Binary 4s all around. And a "bit-bird" to you too! oo1oo
- |> oo1oo ------------------------------------------------------ oo1oo
- |> oo1oo Some people don't know the difference between a grin oo1oo
- |> oo1oo and a grimace. /s/Dennis (nealhd@memstvx1.memst.edu) oo1oo
- |> oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo oo1oo
- |>
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- How about:
- You, sir, are a complete copulating anal orifice.
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- Joe
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