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Started by garbon, May 30, 2012, 12:13:13 PM

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garbon

May 30, 2012, 12:13:13 PM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Valmy

#1
May 30, 2012, 12:16:24 PM
Sweden has a TV station in Aramaic?  Wanting to be ready when Jesus returns?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Caliga

#2
May 30, 2012, 07:35:12 PM
Don't some groups of people in Syria still speak it as an everyday language?  Maybe a bunch of them have emigrated to Sweden. :hmm:
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Valmy

#3
May 30, 2012, 10:18:32 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 30, 2012, 07:35:12 PM
Don't some groups of people in Syria still speak it as an everyday language?  Maybe a bunch of them have emigrated to Sweden. :hmm:

I was under the impression from Slargos that all immigrants to Sweden are hardcore muslims trying to create a Swedish Kaliphate, while that language is typically spoken by Middle Eastern Christians so that is unlikely.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Ideologue

#4
May 30, 2012, 10:59:24 PM
5/7.  I said Breton instead of Manx and identified Aka as an East African language because it has a k in it and black people like hip hop.

The Cornish and Romansh ones were educated guesses, but the other ones I actually knew. :)
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derspiess

#5
May 31, 2012, 12:15:03 AM
2/7.  I really don't care about those shitty languages.  They're endangered or extinct for a reason.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

jimmy olsen

#6
May 31, 2012, 01:17:09 AM
3/7  :mad:
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Jaron

#7
May 31, 2012, 01:33:08 AM
Fuck that quiz.
Winner of THE grumbler point.

Martinus

#8
May 31, 2012, 02:28:47 AM
4/7

Octavian

#9
May 31, 2012, 02:35:57 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on May 30, 2012, 10:59:24 PM
5/7.  I said Breton instead of Manx and identified Aka as an East African language because it has a k in it and black people like hip hop.

The Cornish and Romansh ones were educated guesses, but the other ones I actually knew. :)

Heh that's exactly the way I did it.
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- Eyal Yanilov.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.

- Bruce Lee

Ideologue

#10
May 31, 2012, 02:37:10 AM
Fwiw, I looked it up and Aka is also the name of a central African language as well as one spoken in Sudan.  TAKE THAT BBC.
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Duque de Bragança

#11
May 31, 2012, 03:01:23 AM
4/7

I can get by despite the Aka.

Valdemar

#12
May 31, 2012, 05:29:12 AM
6/7 but some luck was involved

V

garbon

#13
May 31, 2012, 08:12:01 AM
I like the one that had Simlish as an answer. :D
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Josephus

#14
May 31, 2012, 11:01:47 AM
I failed.  :(
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