Harvard Lampoon, 2015:
Judge: Finalist 1, your word is: “Chariot.”
Finalist 1: It’s like, a chariot.
Judge: Correct. Finalist 2, your word is: “Familial Mourning.”
Finalist 2: Um, shoot, I know this one. Shoot. It’s like, three palm leaves over an eagle.
Judge: Oh, I’m sorry, it’s four palm leaves over an eagle. Finalist 1, ready for the final word?
Finalist 1: Yes.
Judge: If you answer correctly, the title is yours. Your word is: “River.”
Finalist 1: It’s like, a river.
Finalist 2: C’mon!
I liked it. Wish they had their arms at funny right angles.
Hello, Dali!
When you’ve got a monicker like Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol, I guess Sal gets the point acrosss.
A nice collection for a cool weekend morning.
She’s totally wrong, though. It should be “bundle of flax, mouth, quail chick, loaf of bread, sarcophagus”.
@Powers
That’s the British Egyptian spelling, not the American Egyptian spelling.
Kliban was awesome, gone much too soon.
I got a small chuckle out of the “Rhymes With Orange”.
Powers (#2) – I might have asked to hear it in a sentence. Sometimes it’s hard to hear the word correctly if the speaker is coffin. Undertakers are always having a coffin fit.
That painting’s subject sure has an intense expression.
Also I love this comic series makes me want to look up painters I’m not familiar with and learn about them.
I had to chuckle about the bookmark thief; I have a helluva time keeping track of my several. I start out using a nice bookmark; soon, it’s gone and I use anything to hand to mark the page, short of sticking one of the dogs in between the pages. Only ’cause I know she would not stay there and I’d end up losing my place anyway.
A few weeks ago, the library returned one of my bookmarks that was still in a book. That one’s disappeared now, tho, so I’m back to using odd pieces of paper, tweezers, mail I’ve not opened yet, or – if desperate enough – memorizing the page number. THAT rarely works.
I mean, if you’re going to make a comic about Egyptian spelling, why wouldn’t you take 10 minutes to get the spelling right?
The “milk jug” is a bit off putting. As is “picture of x”. In heiroglyphics isn’t it understood that everything is a picture and you’d just say “bird, cobra, milk jug”? After all, all the hundreds of people who did the joke before didn’t feel a need to put “picture of x” in.
That’s one thing that switching to e-books eliminated. You can if you want set electronic ones, but the app keeps track of the last place you were automatically.
Grawlix – I would say that he was trying to look pious and that the book is a bible.
Harvard Lampoon, 2015:
Judge: Finalist 1, your word is: “Chariot.”
Finalist 1: It’s like, a chariot.
Judge: Correct. Finalist 2, your word is: “Familial Mourning.”
Finalist 2: Um, shoot, I know this one. Shoot. It’s like, three palm leaves over an eagle.
Judge: Oh, I’m sorry, it’s four palm leaves over an eagle. Finalist 1, ready for the final word?
Finalist 1: Yes.
Judge: If you answer correctly, the title is yours. Your word is: “River.”
Finalist 1: It’s like, a river.
Finalist 2: C’mon!
I liked it. Wish they had their arms at funny right angles.
Hello, Dali!
When you’ve got a monicker like Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol, I guess Sal gets the point acrosss.
A nice collection for a cool weekend morning.
She’s totally wrong, though. It should be “bundle of flax, mouth, quail chick, loaf of bread, sarcophagus”.
@Powers
That’s the British Egyptian spelling, not the American Egyptian spelling.
Kliban was awesome, gone much too soon.
I got a small chuckle out of the “Rhymes With Orange”.
Powers (#2) – I might have asked to hear it in a sentence. Sometimes it’s hard to hear the word correctly if the speaker is coffin. Undertakers are always having a coffin fit.
That painting’s subject sure has an intense expression.
Also I love this comic series makes me want to look up painters I’m not familiar with and learn about them.
I had to chuckle about the bookmark thief; I have a helluva time keeping track of my several. I start out using a nice bookmark; soon, it’s gone and I use anything to hand to mark the page, short of sticking one of the dogs in between the pages. Only ’cause I know she would not stay there and I’d end up losing my place anyway.
A few weeks ago, the library returned one of my bookmarks that was still in a book. That one’s disappeared now, tho, so I’m back to using odd pieces of paper, tweezers, mail I’ve not opened yet, or – if desperate enough – memorizing the page number. THAT rarely works.
I mean, if you’re going to make a comic about Egyptian spelling, why wouldn’t you take 10 minutes to get the spelling right?
The “milk jug” is a bit off putting. As is “picture of x”. In heiroglyphics isn’t it understood that everything is a picture and you’d just say “bird, cobra, milk jug”? After all, all the hundreds of people who did the joke before didn’t feel a need to put “picture of x” in.
That’s one thing that switching to e-books eliminated. You can if you want set electronic ones, but the app keeps track of the last place you were automatically.
Grawlix – I would say that he was trying to look pious and that the book is a bible.