[from October 1999]

(on the high and heroic language of Tismira: I)
<Tribimat> "Sagillozî!"
<theso> It's 'spaghetti' in Quenya!
<Tribimat> It means "You bastard" or something like that. 
* Morwen wonders about Noldorin pasta recipes

(on the high and heroic language of Tismira: II)
<Tribimat> Oh, and "patsû kalos birasine" which means "A 
man walks to a shop"

(on Kennedy)
<Tamf> ich bin ein berliner!
<Tribimat> A friend once told me that means "I am a doughnut" ? 
is this true?
<Tamf> Trib, it means both 'i am from berlin' and 'i am a berlin bun'
<Tamf> but when he said it in Berlin, it was correct
(my comment: what, that he was a bun?)

(on Öje's sanity)
<Olle2000> My large padded cell is at my place right now.

(on Öje's French)
<Olle2000> Après le diner, on va regarder les petits cochons
gambader 
dans la forêt.
<Tamf> Olle, you could write a perfect french textbook!
<LaurieF1> That's probably what he's got open in front of him

(on the Bodleian Library)
<Tribimat> I'm disgusted with the Bod. They don't have the complete 
collection of Transformer comics. 

(on topics)
<karlingal> What's the command to change topic?
*** Fiumana changes topic to 'like this '
*** karlingal changes topic to 'like that? '
*** Fiumana changes topic to 'yes '
*** karlingal changes topic to 'Ah.  '
*** Paganini changes topic to 'Exactly! '
*** Fiumana changes topic to 'Bravo! '
*** Paganini changes topic to '<applause!> '
*** Tamf changes topic to 'stop fooling around, you idiots! '

(my favourite: on lags)
<Olle2000> I really have to leave now, my darlings.
<LaurieF1> Oje -- they are SO cool
<Olle2000> What is cool, Laurie?
<Paganini> Laurie is lagged by about 5 minutes. She's taking part in 
conversations of the past.
<LaurieF1> Mia!
<Fiumana> yes Laurie?
<LaurieF1> He can't help that either.
<Fiumana> Laurie, r you still in the past?
*** LaurieF1 was kicked by Tamf (Tamf )
* LaurieF1 is impressed with all the things K is running
<Paganini> LOL!!!
<Tamf> she doesn't even know she's kicked! LOL
<LaurieF1> What?
<Paganini> She was kicked, but it will take a while for the kick to 
chatch up, 
she was so far behind.
<Fiumana> Laurie is gone baby. Laurie is gone
<LaurieF1> Hey  -  I gotta go!
<Fiumana> Dear Lord!
<Paganini> WOAH! LOL! Laurie is leaving befor she was kicked! THAT IS 
SOME LAG!
<Tamf> this is *funny*! euh... bye Laurie!
<Fiumana> Er, yeah, bye Laurie
<LaurieF1> I have to say  "Good-bye".
* karlingal is reminded of the white hole ep. of Red Dwarf
* Fiumana is in tears
<LaurieF1> Update that Teunctionary!
<Fiumana> OK!
<Fiumana> GO!
<Paganini> GEEZ!!!!
<Tamf> yeees, we will Laurie! LOL
<Paganini> We have GOT to send the transcrapt to Laurie!!

(on TEUNC posts)
<karlingal> "You have mail. You have new mail. You 
have 517 new messages."

(on names)
<D6jevind> Forbes means "field, district".
<D6jevind> It's Scots Gaelic with an English plural.
<LaurieF> "More than one Forb"
<D6jevind> Forbes is the family name of the earls of Granard.
<LaurieF> So I am "outstanding in the field?"
<theso> Laurie, you are 'twisted out of shape in a field'!
<Jereeza>  Forb = any herb that is not grass or grasslike
<D6jevind> So Laurie is not grasslike?
<Jereeza> Forb = (...) food, fodder, to feed, to taste, eat
<LaurieF> Mia  -- how much do I have to pay you to stop
<LaurieF> Yes -- this is my mother's side -- not Forbes -- Metcalf
<D6jevind> Metcalf - "meatcalf", that is, a calf fattened for food. 
Nickname.
<LaurieF> So basically I am two of the four basic food groups

(on languages)
<karlingal> Is it true that the ancient greek word for riot is the 
modern greek word for bus-stop?

(just silly)

* AlkaSeltzer dissolves out of sheer joy
<D6jevind> Who is AlkaSeltzer?
* AlkaSeltzer is THE stomach reliever!

* D6jevind to Laurie Achilles was a poofter!
<theso> Achilles was a sandwich????


More to come!

Cheers,
Mia