Saturday December 24, 2005; part of:
Nerdery
- Q: I have here a 35mm film canister containing "Creosote salve", which says it can cure Självsprickor, excema, and weeping sores, as well as repelling mosquitoes and midges. Will it also cure colds?
- A: Not entirely, but if you rub it on your upper lip, the smell is pleasant and the resemblance to central European dictators slight.
- Q: What are Självsprickor, anyway?
- A: I'd guess chapped lips. Better informed opinions welcome.
- Q: What are the ingedients of this wonderworking substance?
- A: Creosote, Beeswax, Vegetable oil.
- Q: An Ajax live machine translation service is very clever, but Jack Schofield says it doesn't work in IE. Does it work in anything else?
- A: Ich traf ein Laufstück von einem antiken Land sagte, das -- zwei beträchtlich und trunkless Beine des Steins, Standplatz im Ödland.
- Q: Did you steal that last link from John Naughton?
- A: It was a presssent, yes it was. It's mine.
- Q: What is the funniest thing you have heard on the radio all year?
- A: Andrew Marr's history of Mornington Crescent and especially the cricket commentary at around 22 minutes in.
- Q: Is this sophisticated humour?
- A: Not unduly.
Posted by andrewb at December 24, 2005 09:41 AM
Yes, Andrew Marr's programme about Mornington Crescent is quite splendid. But I wonder if anybody from outside the UK is able to understand it at all, let alone find it funny. I suspect not.
why ask a cocacola santa when you have jultomten? He always used to come up our snowy lane on julafton, bang on the door and ask: finns det nàra snälla barn här, and we all hid under the table and only came out when he was sitting on a kitchen chair and started to hand out the presents (like my Airfix plane model that always was finished and stuck together before I went to bed even before the paint was dry....) God fortsättning och Gott Nytt Ar!! (jävla franska tangentbordet...)
Tack, Folke.
A well-informed Swedish person tells me that Självsprickor are split callouses.
Hmm; reenglishing with Google, I get:
I met a piece of run of a antiken country said, -- two considerably and trunkless legs of the stone, location in the wasteland.
As good as Shelley if you ask me, and very nearly as good as Horace Smith.
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