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Agonist (via Melissa and Amanda) reports that "comma" is a dog-whistle code word that Bush used to signal to the Fundies: The phrase is: "Never put a period where God has put a comma." Which is to say - it ain't over yet, and God may well make it better. So Iraq's bad, but if we trust in God, he'll…
I'm still kind of scratching my head over this one. It's preaching to the converted and is not particularly illuminating. Surely they could have come up with something better. (Via the bioethics web log.)
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It's true. You can't. I tried it on a Nokia and it suggested 'shiv' (which, incidentally, is a shortened form of Shiva, a name that's in use in India). Watch below for a hilarious take on this. [via Language Log]

Was that video pirated?

I be cryin' into me ale, ye swabbies. Its a lecture on the integument I has to be presenting on the morrow, and I canna use the piratical tongue wi' the scurvy landlubbers, or they'll be whining to the Royal Navy.

A frigate I'd be rakin' fore and aft, but when a first rate opens her gunports, I know when I'm out-manned.

Yarrr.

fusilierrrr
James 2:24

Arr, 'tis already TLAP day here Down Under ye swabs. I'm hopin' PZ's got that pirate-lingo plug-in sorted out fer Seedblogs, mateys. I look ferward to it ev're yearrrrrr.

Happy almost pirate day everyone! Be sure and set aside some time to reflect on His Noodlyness with some good spirits! Too bad I wasn't clever enough to put this post in piratespeak : (

Yar! Here ine me home state o' New Jersey, at me Seton Hall, we all be pirates, and me gearin' for a foine day o' plunderin' and pirate talkin'! Here's to the salty sea dogs who be a thinkin up this bilge for t' jolly good, rip-roarin' times ahead fer t' next 24 hours. HAR HAR HAR!

Arrr no, matey. Today is a good day for someone else to die.

AHrrr ... wharr be ROBERT NEWTON when we needs' 'o his scourgin' o'the seas?

Seriously (seriously?!) it's no good - you've got to come from, or authentically reproduce the speech of Devon (England) before you can do this sort of thing properly.....

By G. Tingey (not verified) on 18 Sep 2006 #permalink

This is from Loading Ready Run, their website is loadingreadyrun.com. They're a bunch of friends in their early to mid twenties from Victoria BC, Canada. If anyone's interested in knowing.