Sun Jun 02 2002 08:58:
Sumana says it's time for an Australian to play James Bond. She
nominates Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter. Crikey, Blofeld!
You just pulled a gun on me! I'll have to wrestle you to the ground!
"Mr. Bond, this is not how we fight!" Got you now, you little
bugger! Now to radio in MI5 to finish the job!
Sun Jun 02 2002 09:20:
If you were selling something made of felt, you could jazz it up by
calling it "genuine Muppethide".
As Glenn Reynolds would say, he's right.
However, the "No True Australian" fallacy may apply here; when was the
last time you saw George Lazenby utter archaic Cockney colloquialisms and wrestle a twelve-foot croc? Apart
from in Twin Sitters,
I mean.
Sun Jun 02 2002 10:03:
With the amazing turnaround of one who subscribes to the nonexistent NYCB RSS feed, Sean Neakums writes:
I'm pretty sure George Lazenby was Australian.
I think this could be the next Babelfish.
Sun Jun 02 2002 11:55:
Regular readers know that I have an obsession with modifying nouns with
themselves. It's less commonly known that I have a similar obsession with
using output as input. It all started when I first learned about
flip-flops. I thought... "Wait a minute! I could do this... to everything!
Ah ha ha ha ha!
If I were
a package in Debian GNU/Linux,
my package name would be:
pylibkdelibdbdlibfreeleonard1installerperldocja0
What's yours?
Sun Jun 02 2002 21:42:
Annoying things #3007: Java uses instanceOf, but Inform
uses ofclass.
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