[buffoon]

Originally Posted by thingamajig

I knew Google shouldn't have opened an office in London. You can check out the original uncensored Google for free also.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...oq=&aqi=g-p1g9

If Google hadn't opened an office in London they'd never have learned how to spell English properly. They're just keeping the "colonial" version for the unwashed masses.

In all fairness though, the original is Latin and would be "Furor". Found it's way into ye aulde English thru the French "fureur". Both furore and furor are right.

That's a trick question! The answer depends on the reader.

Sure thing. I felt this to be a "they keep bashing us so let's bash them" thread. Never mind who started and whether any of us deserve it.

The Swiss aren't here to participate.

That's the beauty of it.

So, how about Spaniards?

They are, so watch it.

Sometimes the bull wins... that's the only punch line I know.

The bull never wins.

Where are the Argentinians when you need them?

...need Argentinians??? You gotta be kidding.

Oh, never mind, Spanish daughters are just too scary!

They ain't nothing. The eldest royal daughter is titled here as "Infanta" and her name is Elena. Some unkind souls in the past termed her "Elefanta". Most atrocious disrespect I tells ya.

[JohnWill]

I wondered what my post would stir up, and you guys did not disappoint.

[buffoon]

Brings to mind the following possible exchange between vacationing pensioners of all nationalities, say at the hotel pool side.

Brit: You ever been to London
German: Errhhh not precisely
Brit: Not precisely?
German: Well I flew over it
Brit: Ah, I see. On your way to America?
German: errhh no. I just flew to London and, well, errrhhh, back.
Embarrassed silence
Italian: You ever been to Italy
Yank: Yup.
Italian: Ah, did you fly in?
Yank: errh no.
Italian: You came by sea?
Yank: well, errh, partly kind of.
Italian: Oh, so you travelled on the ocean and on land?
Yank: Errh, that's it.
Italian: You must have come via France?
Yank: errh, no actually, I kinda came from North Africa with a coupla friends.
Embarrassed silence
Yank: Isn't Hawaii just beautiful
Japanese: Well I only managed to give it a glance....

Can be continued in any variation to furnish other examples for the theme "you could hear a pin drop".

[iltos]

Originally Posted by buffoon

Sure thing. I felt this to be a "they keep bashing us so let's bash them" thread. Never mind who started and whether any of us deserve it.

ahhh...so it's a halloween thread

[thingamajig]

Originally Posted by buffoon

In all fairness though, the original is Latin and would be "Furor". Found it's way into ye aulde English thru the French "fureur". Both furore and furor are right.

That decides it! If the UK version came from France, Google had to dumb it down for the London office.

Originally Posted by buffoon

The bull never wins.

Tell that to this guy



A guy went to tour Spain. One day he went to a local restaurant and told the waiter that he wanted the house special. The waiter brought a plate consisting of chips, salad and two large meaty balls. Curious the guy ask what it is? The waiter answered "cojones."

The guy was disgusted at the thought of it, but being the adventures type, he decided to give it a a try. In fact the cojones were delicious.

The guy came back the restaurant the next day and ordered cojones again. This time, they were much smaller. Baffled, the guy asked the same waiter why. The waiter answered, "Senor, the bull does not always lose."

Originally Posted by iltos

ahhh...so it's a halloween thread

... proving that some don't need to buy a costume!

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by thingamajig

That decides it! If the UK version came from France, Google had to dumb it down for the London office.

Admittedly. And they had to dumb it down further since too many letters in a word overstretches the transatlantic attention span.

Tell that to this guy



A guy went to tour Spain. One day he went to a local restaurant and told the waiter that he wanted the house special. The waiter brought a plate consisting of chips, salad and two large meaty balls. Curious the guy ask what it is? The waiter answered "cojones."

The guy was disgusted at the thought of it, but being the adventures type, he decided to give it a a try. In fact the cojones were delicious.

The guy came back the restaurant the next day and ordered cojones again. This time, they were much smaller. Baffled, the guy asked the same waiter why. The waiter answered, "Senor, the bull does not always lose."

That story is false as can easily be seen by the chips and salad. We simple don't eat that with cojones.

... proving that some don't need to buy a costume!

Only time of the year that I can go out without one

[thingamajig]

Originally Posted by buffoon

Never mind who started and whether any of us deserve it.

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

Originally Posted by buffoon

That story is false as can easily be seen by the chips and salad. We simple don't eat that with cojones.

It must have been a UK owned restaurant. Lacking any experience, those darn expatriates wouldn't know what else to do with a set of balls.

Originally Posted by buffoon

Admittedly. And they had to dumb it down further since too many letters in a word overstretches the transatlantic attention span.

Superfluous letters which we learned to eliminate with the invention of the telegraph, the telephone, and the Internet.

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by thingamajig

..........Superfluous letters which we learned to eliminate with the invention of the telegraph, the telephone, and the Internet.

The Telegraph was invented by a Frenchman in 1792, the telephone by a German in 1860 and the web by a Brit who, admittedly, had to go to Switzerland to do it. When the Yanks wanted to employ it everything had to be shortened to fit their speech mode and it's been going rapidly south ever since.

As this thread shows

[thingamajig]

Originally Posted by buffoon

The Telegraph was invented by a Frenchman in 1792, the telephone by a German in 1860 and the web by a Brit who, admittedly, had to go to Switzerland to do it. When the Yanks wanted to employ it everything had to be shortened to fit their speech mode and it's been going rapidly south ever since.

As this thread shows

Where do you get such information. There were experiments that predated the American patents. But we prefer our technology to work. (pay no attention to the software company behind the curtain. )

Samuae Morse (a British American) invented the American telegraph in 1843 after a number of efforts in Europe that were less than satisfactory. When it went international, Morse code became the standard.

The modern day telephone was simultaneously invented by Elisha Gay and Alexander Graham Bell. There was some work on concept in Europe that didn't find practical use.

The modern day cell phone came from Motorola whose lead engineer was the Chicago born Martin Cooper. Cooper later admitted inspiration from Star Trek.

The web was a joint effort by the UK's Tim Berners-Lee and the Belgian Robert Cailliau and they did there work at CERN around 1989/1990. HTML was a modification of SGML which was created at IBM in the 1960's. The Internet originated in the US with the work of DARPA and the RAND corporation. The protocol we used today (TCP/IP) was the combined work of Robert E. Kahn of DARPA and Vincent Serf of Standford University.

[Davec]

Stop spreading false information. We all know the Internet was invented by Al Gore in an attempt to distract Slick Willie from his pursuit of women with low standards.

[valis]

Originally Posted by buffoon

The Telegraph was invented by a Frenchman in 1792, the telephone by a German in 1860 and the web by a Brit who, admittedly, had to go to Switzerland to do it. When the Yanks wanted to employ it everything had to be shortened to fit their speech mode and it's been going rapidly south ever since.

As this thread shows

yeah, maybe we didn't event the damn things, but we sure as hell perfected them.

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by thingamajig

Where do you get such information. There were experiments that predated the American patents. But we prefer our technology to work. (pay no attention to the software company behind the curtain. )

Samuae Morse (a British American) invented the American telegraph in 1843 after a number of efforts in Europe that were less than satisfactory. When it went international, Morse code became the standard.

Bah! They were communicating nicely across France by 1794. Just because they didn't have electricity yet don't mean nuffin'.

The modern day telephone was simultaneously invented by Elisha Gay and Alexander Graham Bell. There was some work on concept in Europe that didn't find practical use.

Western Union laboratory reportedly lost Meucci's working models, and Meucci, who at this point was living on public assistance, was unable to renew the patent after 1874;

The modern day cell phone came from Motorola whose lead engineer was the Chicago born Martin Cooper. Cooper later admitted inspiration from Star Trek.

Pah! Almost a Kilo, the size and weight of a brick, hard to understand and $4,000.00. You call that innovation?

Anyway I (ME) invented the first portable. Consisted of two opened tins with a string running between them. You couldn't talk to everyone but you could talk to your friend at the other end.

And I didn't even want to do THAT.

The web was a joint effort by the UK's Tim Berners-Lee and the Belgian Robert Cailliau and they did there work at CERN around 1989/1990. HTML was a modification of SGML which was created at IBM in the 1960's.

That's what I said

The Internet originated in the US with the work of DARPA and the RAND corporation. The protocol we used today (TCP/IP) was the combined work of Robert E. Kahn of DARPA and Vincent Serf of Standford University.

Did I say anything about the internet?
Ay?
Wot?



It was virtually useless without the web. If one computer crashed the whole communication line went down. And when communication worked it was like renting the whole bloody freeway just for yourself (to the exclusion of all others) when you wanted to drive from N.Y. to L.A.
Contemptible

And while we're at it the German Konrad Suze invented the first computer that really worked.

Now gnash on that

[iltos]

Originally Posted by buffoon

Bah! They were communicating nicely across France by 1794. Just because they didn't have electricity yet don't mean nuffin'.

And while we're at it the German Konrad Suze invented the first computer that really worked.

Now gnash on that

yeah, yeah, yeah.....but which nation state gets credit for the wheel?

[valis]

Konrad Suze...........Keyser Söze.........


bit too close for my taste........

[buffoon]

Originally Posted by iltos

yeah, yeah, yeah.....but which nation state gets credit for the wheel?

Kenya and Tansania, 'cept they didn't exist as such entities at the time.