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<squidink> happy?
<Fretless> http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/calguire/morse.html
<Fretless> would be several examples
<tortus> i knew a man who was viking. about 6-8 blonde. he was scary, actually
<squidink> emil^^: uh, i said i pasted it.
<coldstove> I don't see anything...
<emil^^> squid - ohhh all good then
<coldstove> just blank
<squidink> coldstove: you must not be using a unicode compliant font.
<emil^^> i have icelandic set on my keyboard with a click of the mouse
<emil^^> so i can type such characters which we dont have here
<tortus> i hardly ever use icelandic font
<squidink> i can do that in linux.
<squidink> i never use it though.
<emil^^> sorry man - there is little reason to use such
<coldstove> Ok. I gotta go to bed. see you all.
<Fretless> agreed but they do exist
<squidink> o
<squidink> that one doesnt even work.
<squidink> on this font for me.
<tortus> i was reading early english history, and those folks were quite the force
<squidink> its supposed to be an oe with a double accent.
<emil^^> i lived in iceland for a few months - but i think the old world 'gods' of teh olmecs and aztecs were far far cooler
<squidink> im not even sure what the **** a oe with a `` is.
<tortus> pretty much did whatever they wanted to do
<tortus> they had better boats
<squidink> ?
<emil^^> this kinda stuff is fun - not just to study even to peruse
<squidink> hrmm.
<squidink> i didnt even realize, ive got kanji, arabic....oh
<squidink> its all from my adobe software.
<tortus> i think most of the successful invaders had one thing in common...they tolerated the culture of those they invaded.
<tortus> vikings, mongols
<emil^^> tortus -.......................ummmmmmmmmmm
<squidink> thats true.
<squidink> the romans for the most part, were fairly tolerant.
<emil^^> vikings were not tolereant
<squidink> the romans though, had speed.
<emil^^> tolerant**
<squidink> yeah the vikings werent really invaders, more raiders.
<emil^^> vikings were # farmers
<emil^^> #1
<squidink> roman roads did more to hold the empire then thier fancy tolerance.
<tortus> if you look at the vikings in england, they mostly intermarried and melded
<emil^^> squid vikiers were farmers and fisherman 1st
<emil^^> vikings** damn i can't type
<tortus> england is not a nordic culture, afterall
<tortus> the disasters in africa...no tolerance
<squidink> Anansi was a fun god.
<emil^^> if i may add - you're barbaric 'vikings' in iceland were teh first people in the world to create a democracy
<squidink> african trickster.
<emil^^> in iceland natives created the first althing
<Lotec> wmil, before Greece?
<Lotec> emil
<tortus> what is an althing?
<emil^^> in 700 AD, teh althing was a gathering of people who represented their poeple across iceland
<squidink> good story about anansi, will take a couple minutes to tell...
<squidink> You know, one time I saw Tiger down at the water hole: he had the biggest testicles of any animal, and the sharpest claws, and two front teeth as long as knives and as sharp as blades. And I said to him, Brother Tiger, you go for a swim, I'll look after your balls for you. He was so proud of his balls. So he got into the water hole for a swim, and I put his balls on, and left him my own little spider balls. And then, you know what I did? I ran away,
<squidink> "I didn't stop till I got to the next town. And I saw Old Monkey there. You lookin' might fine, Anansi, said Old Monkey. I said to him, You know what they all singin' in the town over there? What are they singin'? he asks me. They singin' the funniest song, I told him. Then I did a dance, and I sings,
<Lotec> emil, I think the Greeks beat them to it
<squidink> Tiger's balls, yeah,
<squidink> I ate Tiger's balls
<squidink> Now ain't nobody gonna stop me ever at all
<squidink> Nobody put me up against the big black wall
<squidink> 'Cos I ate that Tiger's testimonials
<squidink> I ate tiger's balls.
<emil^^> lotec - yeah i think your'e right too...teh althing was the first of somethingg.........
<emil^^> 2 and 2 isnt' adding up to 4 for me now2
<squidink> "Old Monkey laughs fit to bust, holding his side and shakin', and stampin', then he starts singin' Tiger's balls, I ate Tiger's balls, snappin' his fingers, spinnin' around on his two feet. That's a fine song, he says, I'm goin' to sing it to all my friends. You do that, I tell him, and I head back to the water hole.
<squidink> "There's Tiger, down by the water hole, walkin' up and down, with his tail switchin' and swishin' and his ears and the fur on his neck up as far as they can go, and he's snappin' at every insect comes by with his huge old saber teeth, and his eyes flashin' orange fire. He looks mean and scary and big, but danglin' between his legs, there's the littlest blackest balls you ever did see.
<Lotec> flood
<squidink> trying not to.
<squidink> but youll enjoy the story.
<Lotec> try harder
<emil^^> lotec - seriously - the icelanders formed a pseudo-democratic form of gov't tho
<squidink> Hey, Anansi, he says, when he sees me. You were supposed to be guarding my balls while I went swimming. But when I got out of the swimming hole, there was nothing on the side of the bank but these little black shriveled-up good-for-nothing spider balls I'm wearing.
<squidink> "I done my best, I tells him, but it was those monkeys, they come by and eat your balls all up, and when I tell them off, then they pulled off my own little balls. And I was so ashamed I ran away.
<emil^^> lotec - and somethign tell me..........damn history
<squidink> "You a liar, Anansi, says Tiger. I'm going to eat your liver. But then he hears the monkeys coming from thier town to the water hole. A dozen happy monkeys, boppin' down the path, clickin' thier fingers and singin' as loud as they could sing,
<squidink> iger's balls, yeah,
<squidink> I ate Tiger's balls
<emil^^> lotec - there was a sacred hill/mountain (i've been there)
<emil^^> lotec - the lets call them 'lords' of iceland met there
<squidink> "And Tiger, he growls, and he roars and he's off into the forest after them, and the monkeys screech and head for the highest trees. And I scratch my nice new big balls, and damn they felt good hangin' between my skinny legs, and I walk on home. And even today, Tiger keeps chasin' monkeys. So you all remember: just because you're small, doesn't mean you got no power."
<emil^^> they dont use the call it althing tho.........it's spelled aPthing (the p has as line through it)
<emil^^> in icelandic this is roughly teh th sound
<tortus> squidink: did you read "life of pi"?
<emil^^> the greeks may have coined democracy and such
<LuviniaQ> the olde emglith "th" was a crossed Y
<emil^^> luv - no no close gimme a sec
<LuviniaQ> english even
<LuviniaQ> with a line rhru middle
<Lotec> show me
<LuviniaQ> ya lotek but just 1 line
<Lotec> lol
<LuviniaQ> i think tats Yen
<emil^^> lotec no....it's P with aline through it it
<Lotec> It is. I was kiddin ya
<tortus> i could come up with names starting with x y and z
<tortus> who are those dolts?
<Lotec> tortus enough for 5 or 6 years?
<tortus> you would only need them sometimes. not every year
<LuviniaQ> th sound is the dipthong sound?
<emil^^> nwo i'm loggin onto my computer :)
<Lotec> tortus, they plan several years in advance and if a bad storm hits, they retire the name
<emil^^> i have to explain this th sound in icelandic
<emil^^> (there are 2 sounds that are virtually identicle to us english speakers)
<tortus> i would rather have them resort to the dictionary for xyz words than move to another alphabet
<tortus> zebra
<tortus> zenobia
<RustyFord> Zoe
<Lotec> I think they could find plenty of Z names
<tortus> yeah. lots of z
<Lotec> Zelda
<Lotec> Zorba
<tortus> x is more difficult, but not impossible when we are naming storms that would not obmect
<RustyFord> Xavier
<tortus> xray would be a cool storm
<tortus> xray is 175 and closing on the caymans
<Lotec> x-wife
<tortus> haha
<LuviniaQ> a German speaking english in an old movie..Ze time is now.
<Lotec> x-wife is a ***** of a storm. She really blows
<tortus> yomama
<tortus> yersef
<Lotec> lol
<LuviniaQ> ex-wife is a badf storm
<tortus> yomama took out miami
<tortus> xerxes
<tortus> xcellent
<tortus> xmarks the spot
<tortus> why rest on tradition, when they only started naming them 50 years ago anyway
<Lotec> Japan names theirs after flowers and stuff
<RustyFord> like anyway
<RustyFord> ITS A HURRICANE!
<Lotec> mornin, Rusty
<RustyFord> not a ****ing BABY
<RustyFord> why name the ****ing thing anyway?
<RustyFord> heh
<Lotec> Rusty, so you can refer to them?
<RustyFord> uhh
<RustyFord> ok, i am going to start naming winter snow storms
<tortus> i was thinking we shold start naming car accidents alphabeticaaly, by city. so at 5 am each day you start with the a, and you go throught the letters each day. 11.21.05anna
<Lotec> People around here remember hurricanes by their names. Charley was bad in Homestead. Opal got us here in Montgomery pretty bad
<Lotec> Charley got Punta Gorda when they thought Tampa was going to get it
<tortus> i have to give web addresses over the phone sometimes. i used the military protocals for a while, but then it occurred to me that i could identify the letter by the actual word it represented. instead of saying gopher oscar charlie (or whatever) i could just say government
<Lotec> If it was a number, no one would remember
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