Brevity by Dan Thompson for November 06, 2011
November 05, 2011
November 07, 2011
Transcript:
Pigeon 1: Seven slices of bread fed seventy pigeons one Sunday last Summer. Pigeon 2: Seventy servers served seven pigeons one Sunday last Summer. Pigeon 3: Seven servers sat on several pigeons at sundown last Sunday. Pigeon 4: Second service is at seven o'clock on Sunday in Summer. Pigeon 5: Seventh-day adventists change their clocks every Sunday. Pigeon 6: Scientologists some days cut their locks just for fun. Pigeon 7: Scientists say that heads will one day be redundant. Pigeon 8: Science serves the head that one baby finds incumbent. Pigeon 9: Seven slivers of bread fed six people in December. Pigeon 10: Seven slices of bread fed six pigeons one Sunday in September Pigeon 11: Ha! Not even close!
doc white about 13 years ago
Is for me.
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 13 years ago
How does HE know?
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 13 years ago
Hey, I always wonder about stuff like this when I read something translated from another language, especially a non Indo-European one.
A slight misinterpretation of a couple of ancient pictograms, and we miss the aliens landing in the Euphrates basin and think they were talking about trying to grow carrots.
hwcrescent about 13 years ago
makes me hungry for squab
moe_the_cat about 13 years ago
Now if it was goldfish by the time it got to the third one the original fish would say “What?”
hablano about 13 years ago
This is one of my favorite games with yahoo babelfish or google translate. Just type in some interesting phrase and start translating it from one language to another until you feel like coming back to the original language. More often than not it’s just nonsensical, but sometimes it’s pretty hilarious.
iced tea about 13 years ago
This is what happens when one person tells something about someone to a neighbor. By the time it gets back to the first person.it’s all changed around. That’s the evils of gossip.
clarkins about 13 years ago
oh i get it now
Saucy1121 Premium Member about 13 years ago
We used to play a game called “telephone.” First person whispers a phrase to the next and you see what it is when you get to the end of the line.
konradh about 13 years ago
engrish.com
Little Miss Tink about 13 years ago
played that with a group of doves once and almost laspeinto a coma!
vldazzle about 13 years ago
Yes I can remember “telephone” as a popular party game back in the 50s and I believe the pigeon who said “not close” was the one who started it (tho’ as they all look alike. . .!)