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I dreamt I was expounding the Quran to the people of Yemen.

Bil-whatever, your comment makes no sense whatsoever.

Jabechasqvi wrote:Of course this whole septic pool issue always reminded me of a funny quote from Vortex IIRC:

He was quoting me.

vampireshark wrote:Sometimes, a saxophone is just a saxophone.

On this board, you never know.

Double double : how Tim Horton’s becamse a Canadian way of life one cup at a time / Douglas Hunter.

Pazmivaniye wrote:My saxophone is going to get looked at tomorrow because it isn't working right, and does this kind of thing uncomfortably often, but I think they might find the problem and it'll work much better after that.

Even I won't be offended if you say you say your penis is getting looked at tomorrow.

Astraios wrote:But now I have to wait another three months to find out whether I got it or not in between three months ago and yesterday, which is not awesome.

What the hell have you been doing? Never mind, I can figure it out.

Vuvuzela wrote:Something of historical significance.

I think that's a little too pretentious for a retort.

"It means it’s time for you to learn Sanskrit."
or
"It means it's time for you to learn another language."

Surely you've heard the retort, "It's time for you to get a watch"?

Why does it have to be a retort? Why just quote any old thing, as long as it's in Sanskrit? It's not like they are going to know the difference, anyway.

The problem is that "unthaw" logically means "freeze".

a) It's thawing. preferred
b) It's unthawing. unacceptable
c) It's thawing out. Acceptable only if the word "out" is emphasized. If you say "It's *thawing* out", it sounds like you're describing the weather, with "out" meaning "outdoors. Cf. "It's freezing out".

There’s always Ļļ, which is used in Latvian.

Torco wrote:I was playing paintball the other day

I had better warn you that Astraios is now likely to fly to Chile and seek to have sex with you.

What’s wrong with Lj lj? That’s how they write it in Ljubljana.

Though if you borrow from Sanskrit, I recommend ॡ ḹ, because Sanskrit doesn’t really use it for anything and it needs employment.

So how about using λ? Then the new Catalunyan government could promote gay rights at the same time

Or more exotic yet, љ. Or why not borrow a letter from Devanagari and be the first Europeans to use Sanskrit in their alphabet!

I love when a text(book) represents correctly the ela geminada . That is ŀl (el + middle dot + el; two spaces), not l·l (el + middle dot + el, three spaces). If I were the new government of Catalunya, I would impose a language reform replacing this character with something more obviously a letter, ...

Here’s an idea: someone give Xephyr a chocolate frenulum

Frenula? What, the plural of frenulum? What frenulum are you talking about here? Not the frenulum praeputii?

That’s the whole point! Iberian gender-neutral unity!

Ustedes pueden darme las gracias mas tarde.

Here’s an idea: since -o is for masculine in Spanish, and -a for feminine, why not adopt -u for neuter? Then you could have lu for the neuter pronoun, and even lus, and then unu. I don’t think you need su, since se is rather neuter already.

Ustedes pueden me dar las gracias mas tarde.

How about Möbius coins?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
How high can you count?
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nombres_de ... pa%C3%B1ol
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalas_nu ... ga_y_corta
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millardo

I dreamt I was sitting on a bus in Winnipeg trying to get to my uncle's house so I could catch a plane home when a very fat Anishanabe* woman sat down next time and proceeded to tell me about her very boring life. Her face was a normal size, but her buttocks were astoundingly big, so much so that th...

How about making some coffee, freezing it into ice cubes, and then later putting the coffee ice in a cup of coffee to cool it down faster without diluting it?