I have no clue what this is, other than an amazing image:
The linked headline, when clicked, takes the diligent clicker to this page:
But, any hint of the where, what, why, when, or who of the picture is entirely absent. And the moment itself has vanished into cybernetic ether.
Probably a band.
Courage.*
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* Ars longa vita brevis can be found at link. It’s a fun and enlightening read, even if you think you know the phrase.
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Jabberwocky
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood a while in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two!
And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, hast though slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
6 Comments
17 February 2009 at 12:11 pm
The car industry, as we’ve known it, is either dead or dying, and the aircraft and air transportation industries will soon follow suit. Blame it on peak oil.
17 February 2009 at 4:17 pm
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit . . . wait, that’s not Latin. Prob’ly not Klingon, either. Might not even be French. If any language deserves to fall into obscurity, it’s this one–the sooner the better.
18 February 2009 at 6:33 am
Funny you should mention it, Phil. I was just reading a long piece on the origins of “Lorem ipsum” which pointed to this rather delightful webpage. (Delightful, that is, if you find such things fascinating.) Here’s the page.
Qapla’ !
18 February 2009 at 6:34 am
And then we’ll fight World War IV with rocks and sticks as Einstein predicted.
18 February 2009 at 2:25 pm
Thanks for the links, Hart. So, “Lorem ipsum” is Latin, after all. The description given on the reference page is not at all like the one I read in the early 90’s, which held that “Lorem ipsum” had no basis in an actual language. Live and learn.
Oh, and how much of the Klingon dictionary was written by Alan Dean Foster?
21 February 2009 at 7:45 am
None, I hope.
He just novelized the dictionary for Paramount.
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