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Andover Marketing Revelado
streetlawyer submeteu uma ligação completamente surpreender: os staffers aparentemente desconhecidos de Andover.Net têm usado a característica offtopic undocumented da discussão no slash comunicar-se em Slashdot Marketing. A verdade é revelada de repente toda.Update: 04/01 03:37 by H : Or perhaps:streetlawyer submitted a completely surprising (connection?): apparently, unknown Andover.net staffers have been using slash's undocumented offtopic discussion feature to
communicate in Slashdot Marketing. All the truth is suddenly revealed.
Oh hush . . and get LAID . . it's only ONE day out of the year . . and if you can't relax for one day without SlashDot then you got a bigger problem buddy.
you sound like a stock trader . . maybe even a manager somewhere . . .
Either way . . get the corn cob out of your of butt and relax . . .
How about if Slashdot just shuts down for the day . . . Let's pretend okay ? =)
MILL SURPRISE YOU NOT KNOW WHY CALL APRIL FOOL DAY. HAVE TO DO WITH CALENDAR.
BIG TIME AGO, PEOPLE THINK SUN-TURN START APRIL. THEY SAY, NEW SUN-TURN DAY APRIL ONE. THEN POPE COME, MAKE NEW SUN-TURN. SAY NEW SUN-TURN DAY JANUARY ONE. MANY PEOPLE FOLLOW POPE. BUT SOME WANT NEW SUN-TURN STILL START APRIL ONE, CLOSE TO START WARMING-TIME. PEOPLE FOLLOW POPE, CALL OTHER PEOPLE APRIL FOOL. THAT WHY CALL APRIL FOOL DAY. MILL NOT KNOW WHEN JOKES START. BUT MILL LIKE JOKES.
MILL DO THINK MANY POST IN WIERD TALK GO TOO FAR. ONLY NEED ONE FOR GOOD JOKE. TWO POST STILL GOOD. MANY POST BAD IF TOO HARD READ POST.
freshmeat.net did a much better April Fool's prank..
Check it out. It's better than what we've seen here so far..
Since we're all on the offtopic pursuit of doing horrible things to languages with Babelfish, I thought I'd share a little fun I had with it.
My original English phrase was a generic declaration of wannabe Linux pride:
I am a geek. I want to program things. Linux is the best. My computer is my friend. We are happy.
I've taken some German courses, so, a fairly straightforward German translation:
Ich bin ein geek. Ich möchte Sachen programmieren. Linux ist das beste. Mein Computer ist mein Freund. Wir sind glücklich.
Now, to make it ugly. Let's play with it a little...German back to English.
I am geek. I would like to program things. Linux is the best. My computer is my friend. We are lucky.
Odd how Babelfish can't handle the German adjective "glücklich". It was like, one of the first words I learned. Now, I don't speak Italian, but let's see what Babelfish does to it...
Sono geek. Vorrei programmare le cose. Linux è il la cosa migliore. Il mio calcolatore è il mio amico. Siamo fortunati.
And back to English.
Sono geek. I would want to program the things. Linux is the better thing. My calculating is my friend. We are fortunate.
Now Portuguese, which I also don't speak, but I want to see what Babelfish does to it.
Geek de Sono. Eu quereria programar as coisas. Linux é a coisa melhor. Meu cálculo é meu amigo. Nós somos afortunados.
Back to English.
Geek de Sono. I would want to program the things. Linux is the thing best. My calculation is friend. We are fortunate.
Ah well. This was completely offtopic, but if you're bored, it helps. Especially around here. Sure, moderate me down, but I had fun doing this.
Angry IT woman in big clompy boots. And talking lint!.
Being one of the resident Portuguese speakers, I present both an English translation and a proper Portuguese version (i.e., not that Babblefish crap).
streetlawyer submitted a completely surprising (connection?): apparently, unknown Andover.net staffers have been using slash's undocumented offtopic discussion feature to communicate in Slashdot Marketing. All the truth is suddenly revealed.
streetlawyer enviou uma (conexão?) completamente surpreendente: aparentemente, empregados desconhecidos da Andover.net têm usado a (feature) não-documentada de discussões fora de tópico do slash para se comunicar em Slashdot Marketing. Repentinamente, a verdade toda é revelada.
To the editors: your English is as bad as your Perl. Please go back to grade school.
I thought it was a windows problem, so I called Micosoft Tech support at 1-900-428-7448. They had me format my drive and reinstall Windoze, from the original floppies, 3 times. Then I had to get a new video card with a forreign language adapter.
Please have your attorney contact my attorney at Dewey, Cheatem & Howe.
Fight Spammers!
1. Always make your prank *believable*. If it is so stupid that nobody would believe it, you haven't fooled anyone.
2. Remember that the overall goal of April Fool's Day is to *FOOL* people. It isn't April Annoy The Hell Out Of People Day.
3. If you are a total geek and have no recognizable sense of humor, your prank might well suck. Try testing it out on a small sample population first, before unleashing it on everyone. If they look at you funny, shake their heads, and walk away, chances are you need to go back to the drawing board.
This sig is false.
You guys still don't get it do you?
For once the /. crew is trolling on you.
The really funny thing is that AC's are begging for mercy!