Links of the Week (2008/03)

Short and sweet:

Braing for good – we don’t understand

Three hours ago, someone came here from Spanish Google with this search phrase:

braing for good braing for love braing for peace we dont understand

I don’t really understand that either… I don’t understand it even if I replace “braing” with what I think is the most likely word they meant: “praying” – but that’s a matter of faith, of course.
:engel:

Fittingly, today’s cartoon from SMBC Comics (via Pharyngula):

SMBC Comic 2008-01-19

300, or: So many questions…

This is post # 300 in this li’l blog o’ mine (don’t get confused by the number in the URL, that one also counts drafts, pages and uploads). I know, others might just raise a light smile, at best, at these numbers, but… so be it.

To let this post have some meaning, I’m gonna address some of the questions and statements I have been approached with through the search engines (and I’ve translated the German ones for you; the search phrases have a grey background) – well, some of them are answering each other:

(I know, my 200th post started in a a similar fashion. :) )

All right, everything is gonna be so right, welcome to your destiny, believe in yourself, the answer will come.

  • can i borrow you for a minute maybe two or five maybe for the rest of my life
    The former: yes, why not – what for? But the latter must be thoroughly thought through…
  • me in my panties und I without panties
    Really? Can you prove that with a photo? :mrgreen:
    i live in russia
    I don’t. But why does that keep you from making these photos?
  • do men wear thongs
    do you like men in thong
    Since the German Stringtanga Forum noticed my poll this Wednesday, there’s quite some buzz in the poll and in the comments, so check it out again…
  • lotto “6/49” how often two consecutive numbers
    No, no, you do that “Bild der Wissenschaft” math quiz nicely by yourself…
  • calculate the next lottery numbers
    Impossible.
    do you believe in what you’re saying
    Yes.
    say it’s not so
    Well, it is, sorry.
  • turn around ask yourself

    (no reply)
  • ain’t looking for nothing but a good time and it don’t get better than this
    Thanks. :)
  • next uri geller what to say to throw spoon off the tv
    nothing
    which 3 words does uri geller say in hebrew
    achad shtaim shalosh
    what does achad shtaim shalosh mean
    “1, 2, 3”.
  • 2 girls 2 cup?
    Don’t know about that one.
    2 girls 1 cup original video
    vomit stimulus
  • another question hangs in the air now there’s an answer i know it’s out there
    you’ve got so many questions
    you bet
  • do you want sugar one lump or two
    No thanks, no sugar for me.

So keep on rocking or turn the tv off and go to bed now. :bye:

Tollpatschiges Quiz in der Sauna

This is about a quiz about words imported into the German language…

Wenn der Tollpatsch mutterseelenallein mit Lametta und Anorak in der Sauna Fisimatenten macht und bei der anschließenden Safari mit einer Tomate am Kiosk Alarm auslöst…

…dann geht’s um das Quiz über “Wörter mit Migrationshintergrund” auf Spiegel Online (Artikel dazu).

Ich hab mit etwa gleichviel Raten und Wissen tatsächlich alle 10 Wörter ihren ursprünglichen Herkunftssprachen zuordnen können:

Sie haben 10 von 10 Punkten.

Geben Sie es zu – Sie haben das etymologische Wörterbuch geschrieben, aus dem wir die ganze Zeit zitiert haben. Falls nicht, haben Sie wirklich eine Menge Ahnung oder für diesen Test drei Stunden gebraucht, weil sie jede Antwort erstmal bei Wikipedia nachrecherchiert haben. Achso: Dass Sie das mit […] wirklich wussten, glaubt Ihnen übrigens kein Mensch.

Och menno… :heul: grad das war eines, das ich tatsächlich gewusst habe…

Und ihr? :mrgreen:

I shouldn’t listen to any more news today…

…because already since the morning, they always talk about the exciting countdown for publishing the name for Nürnberg’s polar bear baby – and even as first, i.e. alledgedly most important news message. And a few days ago, it was always “it opened its eyes today for the first time, first the left eye, then the right.” Aaargh!

Not that I’d be averse to polar bears or animal babies (or both), or against people who outright love them, but must there be always all that fuss about them??

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