You know, I’d feel bad about us not getting a post together tonight, but I know for a fact that you just come here for the comments anyway, so it’s no big deal.
Anyway, you’ve got the whole weekend ahead of you and a wad of cash in your sweaty little fist (which is all covered in Cheeto dust), so maybe you could dump a little of it on one of our fine advertisers.
There’s Rogue Amoeba. They make good stuff. Although Kafasis tried to kill me that one time.
Well, there’s also Delicious Monster. The things they can do with an iSight camera. Tell you what. Although Shipley did call me a… well, let’s just say he said I like to do something to dogs that I don’t. Totally. I mean… really. I don’t even know how that would work.
Anyway, that brings us to our new advertisers: Shiny White Box and Many Tricks. They also make boss software and so far neither of their CEOs has tried to kill me or accused me of being into bestiality.
Of course, we’ve only just met so…
I should probably give them some time.
…
Do you think Gruber has this kind of relationship with his advertisers?
My wife uses the Rule of Caber for choosing what to beat me with.
So all the wife would have to do is cut off her husbands thumbs. Seems pretty fair to me.
Del,
Are you sure your name’s not Bobbet?
I don’t think that was thumbs 😛
Though I met John Wayne Bobbit once. Guy’s a freak. Tours strip clubs giving views of the stitches for $5. Only problem is he thinks everyone wants to see it and he gives free (unwanted) views to women.
You’d think he’d have learned his lesson.
Congrates to kingthedestroyer, who got the coveted palindromic 1771!
And I claim the historic 1776!
I’m holding out for the truely amazing 1961, looks the same right side up or upside down, and 1961 is also the number used to designate the year I arrived on this planet.
Bloody teenagers.
In 1779 military forces of both France and Spain laid siege to the British garrison at Gibraltar. The British forces, led by George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, suffered bombardment and blockade for more than three years. The most horrific engagement of the siege took place on September 13, 1782 when a combined Franco-Spanish assault involving 100,000 men and 48 ships attacked the British. The garrison survived the assault.
1880
Who gets the next palindrome post?
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama
Madam, I’m Adam.
Del saw a sled.
A man, a plan, a butt tub: anal Panama!
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Famed French git with gut trouble, only he said it in French, which doesn’t work.
So that brings up a good question:
Does anyone know a palidrome in a language other than English?
@$^* !# !*^ $@
or even a better one
€›fl° â„‹ â„°fl ›€d
I only realised that a) You were trying to fool us or b) you’d made a slight typo, KTD, at the end of the second example. Now as I KNOW that everyone here is so truthful that it hurts, it is obviously a typo but could we have a translation and the language.
Just to be a pedant, does the ‘fl’ ligature read the same both ways as in my typography course, no one mentioned a ‘lf’ ligature?
Forgive me for this slight doubt but I’m afraid some clearing up is required.
BTW:-Which of you were in the New York Marathon? Just wondered as I started the London. Hope to finish some time next week.
Non-english Palindromes courtesy of the wiki
DUTCH:
nepparterrestaalplaatserretrappen (33 letters) – “fake stairways from the ground floor to the sun lounge, made of steel plate”
koortsmeetsysteemstrook (23) – “a strip of a fever measuring system” (quoted by the Guinness Book of Records as the longest one-word palindrome in Dutch)
Estonian:
Kuulilennuteetunneliluuk (24 letters) – “bullet flying trajectory tunnel’s hatch” (the longest one-word palindrome in Estonian)
Finnish:
saippuakuppinippukauppias – “soap cup batch trader”
solutomaattimittaamotulos – “the measurement laboratory result for tomato cells”
French:
élu par cette crapule (18 letters) : “elected by this swindler”
German:
Nebelregennegerleben (20 letters) – “the life of a black man in rain and fog”
Lagertonnennotregal (19 letters) – “emergency storage rack for barrels”
Oh my freakin god. We’re doing palindromes in foreign languages now?
I guess I hit my head harder than I thought I did. Where the hell am I anyway? I’m starting to feel like I should be experiencing deja-vu, but I can’t remember why.
Confusion says what?
Okay.
I give up.
What?
Huh?
Who?
Doh!
I think that was a misprint, it appeared to be a question but in fact it was actually a statement – confusion says what. Of course “what” is usually a question, hence the confusion.
What???
I still don’t know where I am, but I’m used to that feeling by now. It’s kinda dark and smells of mutated animal feces, so I’m guessing I fell into the tunnels somewhere. Damn it anyway, last time I was in here it took me forever to figure out how to get back out. Hopefully I’ll remember to go into the light …
Better get out before the daily tunnel flush (implemented to help keep our tunnels minty fresh).
Can we switch from minty fresh to lemony fresh? Mint makes me sneeze!
Normally I wouldn’t mind, but when I sneeze I’m momentarily insensate, and lately the tunnels seem rife with muggers, adders, bats and hooligans. Need to be alert at all times…
Who’s going to be first into the nineteenth century?
Not I, no way. Absolutely not. Forget it. You go first!
Fine I’ll go first…HEY …
On a side note, the flavor for the tunnels has been switch to lemony fresh.
Just a few hundred comments more, and we will be in the future.
BTW, how long was MegaPost when it finally expired? Anybody remember the number?
It was stopped at 3821 but cannot get onto page tp see where it started.
Bloody hell, still two thousand-odd to go.
Yes, but if everybody posts just a little bit each day, we will eventually get there, so nobody out there get a life or anything close to it, or we’ll never make it.
Well, I will be out of contact this weekend. Need to visit my mom who just had heart-valve replacement surgery.
The Giga-Post made it as far as 2603 before it stopped. Was it some sort of WordPress limitation? Was it the heaviness of the commentary? We may never learn the truth, but I think the cricket reports sunk it.
So something more exciting.
Tiddly Winks from The Superbowl,
The football will be played in the interval?
No, no, not Tiddly Winks. Let’s go for curling, with cribbage in the interval.
Curling has gone robotic, with Roombas for brooms.
Archery with atomic arrowarheads? Reporter: The target has been smithereened. Game over.
Extreme Nude Freeze Tag live from Antartica!!!
That’s what I wanna see.
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But what for the interval?
Full Contact Cannibalism?
Apologies.
Last post should have had some reference to Tchaikowski (spell checker queried it but doesn’t know the correct spelling!) or Napoleon and Moscow.
Just pretend it happened a year later.
In October of 1814, a vat of porter exploded at Meux’s brewery in England. Eight people were killed.
This seems far more important than anything related to cellular telephony, except, possibly, a version of Bookworm Deluxe for the iPhone.
Come on Rip, stop pulling our legs.
Value Added Tax was not invented in 1814.
1815 was the year of Waterloo. Having been around so long, the station looks pretty grim and it’s loosing its Channel Tunnel Terminus status next week.
Yes, but in Finland they founded a Senate in 1816.
Also, last night at 18:16 I was putting on my costume and make-up to go on stage as a pirate in the local production of Peter Pan.
I’m taking the plunge… backing up my laptop and then installing leopard.
I’m glad I avoided the big typhus plague in Edinburgh in 1817 the last time I time travelled.
The founder of Open Source, Karl Marx, was born in 1818.
Leopard rocks. I’ve had it since the Friday it shipped. So far, the only problem I’ve had with it involves mayonnaise and a deck of playing cards. I won’t bore you with the details.
Agree with the Leopard Rocks sentiment – I’ve been running it for about a week now without issue.
Is someone running a lemonade stand down here? It smells all lemony — oh no, not again ….
WHOOSH!
I won’t buy Leopard: that way I’ll have an excuse for replacing my aging G5 tower with a Mac Pro.
Ever notice how everything is aging these days? My wardrobe, the food in the refrigerator, Mick Jagger… I hope my Mac Pro stays new after I get it. This upgrading process is getting old.
Ace,
Jagger is not ageing. He was quietly buried fourteen years ago and it is an Animatronic Madam Tausaud’s performing with the Stones. Have you noticed that it is far more animated than Charlie, or me?