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Periodic Table Table Poster Post
TheodoreGray writes to mention his
Artsy Periodic Table Poster. Others here have discovered his Periodic Table Table and his sodium-in-the-lake party. He concludes, "And if I post about posters again, I could be a Periodic Periodic Table Table Poster Poster."
Other languages do have puns, they just don't translate well because words that sound similar but mean completely different things in one language don't necessarily sound anything like each other in another language. For instance .....
Q. Why is a watch called a watch?
A. Because it shows you the time!
is not funny at all in English; but if you translate it into French, print it on a T-shirt, and wander round Paris, you'll have French people collapsing in paroxysms of laughter. Even the gendarmes won't be able to get near enough to arrest you. You could rob several banks in the time it takes for the authorities to send a non-French-speaker after you.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
>Step 5: ???
Step 5: No Profit!!!
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Main page news?
/. summaries at 6:30AM. Or ever.
I mean, I only attempted to read the article because I didn't even understand the summary.
Coherence is important, and while that headline may appear witty to those on the inside, the point is that it describes the point of the article in a clear and brief manner. "Periodic Table Table Poster Post," not so much. I don't want to have to decode
Save the jokes for the department line.
Great title above this post!
-- Cheers!
Eehm.. My French is not so good. Could you help me please?
-- Cheers!
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I thought on the internet anything between paragraph tags was assumed to be sarcastic...?
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There is no article. I guess we are still waiting for the first of such people to take an interest in wikipedia.