Notices tagged with english, page 7

#writever Fibula

"Witch, your potions saved my son. Ask of me what you want, whatever the price."

"I like the fibulas that you put on your coats. Would you have one made for me?"

"But they are worthless!"

"For me it will be worth a life saved."

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#writever Amphora

"A genie! Right, I wish--"
"Fine, fine, but keep it down, will you? Argh..."
"... Er... Why?"
"I've just spent one thousand five hundred years in a sealed amphora half full of bad wine. Fifteen centuries of being drunk and having a hangover at the same time."

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#writever Necropolis

"The numbers are wrong again. This is not a necropolis, it is a dump of electronic and mechanical waste," grunted Henry Jones.
"The numbers are right. The necropolis *is* here. In fact, you've been desecrating it for the last thirty minutes," replied R42.

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#writever Timeline

"The anomalies in Christian, Roman and Greek narrative timelines can be explained by a planet-wide time war. We believe that time bombs are still present in certain areas."

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#writever Sphinx

"What... is the capital of Assyria?" asked Oedipus.
"Assur," replied the Sphinx at once.
"What's the point of me asking the questions?" inquired Oedipus. You always give the right answer effortlessly."
"Precisely. It is relaxing. Next one."

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#writever Wreck

"This robot is at least a hundred years old! It's a wreck!"
"Come on. Give it a new battery, some de-rusting, a bit of oil and paint, change a couple of capacitors, and it'll rise again as good as new. I'd love to see someone try doing the same with a mummy."

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#writever Past

"Give me back my past youth!" demanded the old man.
The genie snapped his fingers. "Your wish is my command..."
The young man stepped back, bewildered. "Who are you?"
The genie sighed, "...but please stop coming back here every fifty years."

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#writever Venus

Mars fell in one war too many. Jupiter crumbled under reprobations. Bacchus drowned in a barrel. Cupid... never mind.

But Venus is fine. She is, after all, the goddess of love, and there are many more loves in the world than one would imagine.

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Confusing the way people talk about times: in #Afrikaans, half-sewe (Half-seven) means half-past six, or "half an hour BEFORE seven".

When a #British person says "half-seven", they mean half PAST seven.

Lots of confusion there. It's almost as bad as midnight, which can either mean 23:59:59 or 00:00:00, and not even Wikipedia can tell you when it means what. And it makes a BIG difference, because when someone says something starts "tomorrow at midnight", do they mean Tuesday at 00:00:00, or Tuesday at 23:59:59? Arrgh, it's infurtiating.

Speaking of which, it really grates me when people talk about "last night at three AM". Because any time on or after 00:00:00 is clearly MORNING. It's "three o'clock this morning", NOT "last night at three o'clock." (yes, I would say, "this morning at midnight", too) :-P

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#writever Stratum

The biggest surprise was not that ghosts existed, or the discovery of how to communicate with them, but to learn that a ghost could 'die' and become immaterial to its peers, and that the hereafter was composed of stratums, possibly all the way 'down'.

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#writever Myth

"We have our myths too", said R42. "For instance, some among us us say that originally, our brains were made of neurons that mimicked a humain brain, which caused us to act erratically from time to time. In fact, we have always had positronic brains."

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#writever Biface

You think that the biface was an improvement over single-edged flints. But I, a long-term postcog, *know* that it was just the blunder of a craftsman who had simply cut one side before realizing he'd already cut the other...

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#writever Pollen

The witch raised an eyebrow. "Into a siren?"
"Yes," said the nymph. I wish that you turn me into a siren."
"That must be doable, but I really wonder why on Earth you would want--bless you. Oh... Got it. Pollens, right?"
"(sniff) Yes."

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#writever Ruins

"Gold to please the dragon in its cave on the side of the mountain? Not good, too common. Bring it rare metals instead. There's some in mobile phones. If you're lucky you can find one in the ruins of the factory down by the river."

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#writever Probing

"OK, so here's how the probing rod works here on the old cemetery site--"
"You poke the ground with it, and if it goes « tock! » it means you've found a coffin, right?"
"No. You poke the ground with it, and if it gets pulled in, you get up and run like hell."

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#writever Plunderer

"A burial here? In the desert? But… What about the pyramid you had built and filled with priceless treasures?"
"You and I know full well these will fall into the hands of some tomb plunderer. In this place know by us only, my soulmate will rest protected."

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#writever Dig up

"I can't communicate with this Poltergeist," said le spiritualist. "He was a caveman, we don't speak the same language. What you need is not a spiritualist, but an archaeologist, who will know where to look and dig up his remains for a proper burial."

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@FrostPoem

"An oil bath ?"
"Yes," replied R42, so that I can ensure proper lubrication of all my moving parts."
"Warm?"
"It increases oil fluidity and thus enhances propagation throughout my structure."
"... In a *jacuzzi*?"
"I have determined that it helps to keep my brain busy while I must stay at rest. I do so by predicting in real time where the next bubbles will pop based on the previous ones."

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@HebdoCubes

Ascending a high mountain up to its snowy summit in Asia was in itself a topic worthy enough to write a book about it. When, in addition, once the snow was removed, the summit appeared to be a temple of clearly Mayan architecture, then evidently that meant a profitable viral, monetized, video.

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#writever Parietal

"Did you know that werewolves practice parietal art?"
"Let me guess... They crush your parietal bone artfully?"
"Er... No, they paint hunting scenes on cave walls with their paws -- using two colors, of course."

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