red dogs twin

[tikay]

THANK YOU Mrs Red-Dog. As well as being the only sane adult in your house, you are the only sane poster in this thread. Apart fom me of course.

I mean, now Jammer has started it. "Wikipedia". WHAT? "Revisionist description". WHAT?

[RED-DOG]

And by the way, I used to have a clygester

[Colchester Kev]

Are you getting this pop up on your screen Tikay

[Mrs RED-DOG]

PMSL

Fantastic Kev, that was the best!  

[Rod Paradise]

Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. WTF is THAT? And an "online translator"?

Look. I asked who Chesney was. A whole gaggle of wise guys start posting "I am the one and only". Then it moves to babelfishing, now hitchiking & stellar comments.

Wha IS the matter with you guys? You no speak plain English?

Every answer seems to require 4 more questions.

BUT you're starting to learn. I feel like a father after the wee one speaks his first words.

"AHHH Look everyone, Tikay used his first TLA."

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Dictionary Entries:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Humorous Science-Fiction book, made into funny 80's series, then made into crap film in 2004.

Babelfish - The Babel fish is a fictional species of fish in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. A Babel fish is a highly improbable biological universal translator. It appears as a "small, yellow and leechlike" fish. When a Babel fish is inserted into the ear canal it allows the 'wearer' to "instantly understand anything said... in any form of language." http://babelfish.altavista.com/ is an online translator named after the fictitious Babelfish.

Online Translator - Website where you enter a portion of text, then the software translates it into another language (usually badly).

TLA - Three Letter Abbreviation, ie WTF.

[jammer]

THANK YOU Mrs Red-Dog. As well as being the only sane adult in your house, you are the only sane poster in this thread. Apart fom me of course.

I mean, now Jammer has started it. "Wikipedia". WHAT? "Revisionist description". WHAT?

okay. on the magic that is the interweb, there are two very useful ways of getting information:

The first is www.google.com, the biggest search engine on the net, which will find you a web page with the information you are looking for. Unfortunately it will also return you a lot of rubbish so you have to commit some time to reading all those web pages.

The other is an online encyclopedia called www.wikipedia.com, which is constantly updated and always changing - a sort of dynamic encylopedia brittanica. If there is anything (and i mean anything...) you want to find out the meaing of, then going to the wikipedia web-site and typing it in to their search box will give you the answer in seconds. Its incredibly useful and highly recommended.

For example click here to see the wikipedia entry for poker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker

Welcome to the 21st century tony!

[skalie]

Has nobody noticed he now has a regular spot on sky 1.

[tikay]

Red - YES, someone actually knows something useful and sensible - you prove that there IS such a thing as a clygester! I thought I was going mad, I could not find it in the dictionary. TOP MAN!

Does this wikipedia thing list it, I wonder?

[tikay]

Whoa, hold up lads. Lets get this right. You, supposedly sane adults, read books which include, lets see......

A pretend fish, that doubles up as an "improbable biological online translator". Do WOT? Fish are STUPID. They have no brain.

And you are supposed to believe, doubtless in awe and wonderment, that peeps put this fish in their EAR. And it translates German into English? What would make you put a fish in your ear?

You jest, surely. You guys read junk like that?

What IS the matter with you? Try "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson and learn something useful.

Thewy reads fiction too. Can't believe ANYONE reads fiction.

[Rod Paradise]

Not a fan of Bryson TBH.

And fiction's good for the mind 

[Robert HM]

Not a fan of Bryson TBH.

And fiction's good for the mind 

There you go, a babelfish. Proof positive of existance.


Tikay "I had Aces" = Fiction

[tikay]

"fictions good for the mind".....?

Is that a proven fact? (Rhetorical, for Red-Dog's benefit).

Non-Fiction is better for the mind. Assuming it's an intelligent mind.

[RED-DOG]

I love bill Bryson, I havn't read any fiction for years, but when I did I used to like Asimov's stuff  'I, Robot' Brilliant!!

[Rod Paradise]

"fictions good for the mind".....?

Is that a proven fact? (Rehetorical, for Red-Dog's benefit).

Non-Fiction is better for the mind. Assuming it's an intelligent mind.

Well I read both - and at times when I need to relax (definately good for the mind) - I read fiction.

Tell you what - read Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon & tell me you didn't learn something.

[tikay]

And that drawing of the so-called babelfish. If I had a 5 year-old son & he drew that, I'd tell him to act his age.

PS - But it looks a bit like Red-Dog's twin.