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Good for the ancient Greeks to name a city after Teemu.
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Boom Boom Apathy
I am the Professor. Deal with it!
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pfft. He's got nothin' on Forrest Gump.
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Apparently Julius Caesar, Caligula and Nero all at their time planned to have the Corinth Canal dug out, but got whacked before they got around to it.
The Corinthian mob is dead serious about you not messing their trading setup by by-passing them.
The Corinthian mob is dead serious about you not messing their trading setup by by-passing them.
Boom Boom Apathy
I am the Professor. Deal with it!
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And they make some rich Corinthian Leather, which really isn't a thing, but when Ricardo Montalban said it, it sounded impressive.
I go to a Led Zeppelin cover band concert and the band doesn't understand my "does anyone remember Jeff K" scream. The feeling when.
Disclaimer: I grew up with Thresh's Firing Squad, SlackerCentral, Dimension3D, and the uppity Slashdot and Beyond3D. Hopefully they didn't survive.
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Cue to me reading about the Nativity Stone Cross, and learning that the supposed barn Jesus was born in was likely a cavern because they didn't have enough wood to go around in Betlehem to waste it on building animal shelters whereas they got plenty of caverns.
On the minus side, the humble career choice of a carpenter just became a lot less impressive. "Jay, we've used up our daily quota of wood. Let's lay about in the sun for the afternoon."
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Also, Ricardo Montalban is some snakeoil salesman and I'm happy now Frank Drebin killed his fish.
you're supposed to tell me if i have this all wrong
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Haven't checked this thread in a while. Thought I'd stop by. What the hell are you guys talking about? Reading through like 7 posts I'm already confused.
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Sorry, you say Zeppelin and I immediately zone out and be like 7, 5, 5, 5, 6&7, 5, 5, 7, 8&5, 5, 5, 8, 4&2...
I blame the stupid guitar I bought for the kid.
That's not really looking in the linguistic evidence, is it? Montalban is clearly Romance while Drebin must be Germanic, and now I'm losing track with these Proto Indo European, non Finnic lingos. hi hi hi
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I'm a 30-year avid Zeppelin fan and I don't understand that, either. I get "does anyone remember laughter?", but not Jeff K.
Man look, I hear you... it's funny to me too, I mean it's strange... it's strange to me too, but we're talking about likes man, we're not even talking about the posts... the actual posts, when it matters... We're talking about likes…
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Only 7? I got lost about 3 pages ago.
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The proto-Urals got the *kala, the PIE folks got their *(s)k(w)alos, there's something fishy there alright.
Then the creative bastards go and make squals and whales and whatnot from theirs.
Unsustainable
Seth Jarvis is Elite
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When Finns come bearing fish, a Canesman would be prudent not to protest.
Jeff K was a big Internet parody before Facebook or Twitter. I don't remember who maintained it. Probably flushed out of the big caches long ago, so nowhere to be found. Basically a parody of young dweebs being sudden webmasters. At times it was funnier than reading old Bastard Operator From Hell episodes. FML
Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
I'm kind of wondering what the heck triggers that particular trophy. It doesn't seem to make any sense.
Viqsi
"that chick from Ohio"
Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, the guy behind Something Awful.
Lowtax was definitely with SlackerCentral! SomethingAwful may well have followed. I even followed the funny but mostly accurate Demerjian to SemiAccurate before I gave up the video card and processor wars. (P6 won, Athlons ruled in between, IBM didn't match the little ones until POWER7, and Matrox with a Sony Trinitron or Mitsu Diamondtron tube was heaven, okay?)
Fins can do much worse than being linguistically married to Hungarians
Viqsi, I have to ask. Did you have early numbers at Slashdot? I didn't make it until 500,000 or so, and I've regretted it. Sometimes you saw a two digit wake up and be the envy of the whole thing.
While Hungarian is linked to non Indo European languages, it's about as close a cousin to Finnish/Estonian as English is to Farsi. So there you go.
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