The Alphabet

[matt_mcl]

Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Is the most remarkable word I’ve ever seen,
Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,
I wish I knew exactly what I mean…

[rowrrbazzle]

[symbol]W SKULLA TI QELEIS[/symbol]

[IGJoe]

And sometimes Y!

*Originally posted by MrVisible *
**And a colon actually looks more like * **

Technically, that would be a sphincter. I’d say a colon looks more like n

[Little_Nemo]

Why are we posting to this thread? After the OP, anything else is redundant.

[Why_A_Duck]

So…

This is how he keeps his post count up?

Either that or he’s got a case of writer’s block.

If he starts singing show tunes, I’m out of here.

[TwistofFate]

I think that

onetothreeFOURfive
sixseveneightNINEten
eleventwelve

is the first real funk song most kids get to recognise. That bassline, the multiple harmonies, the funky pinball machine sounds…
I can picture the Temptations singing it, before seguing into Papa was a rolling stone…

[Fenris]

:: tries to dredge up 30 year old memories ::
Ab-cadef-ghi-jekyl-m’nop-qurstuv-wixyzz
It’s the most remarkable word I’ve ever seen
Ab-cadef-ghi-jekyl-m’nop-qurstuv-wixyzz
I wish I knew exactly what it means
It starts out like an “A” word as anyone can see
But somewhere in the middle it gets awful queer to me
Ab-cadef-ghi-jekyl-m’nop-qurstuv-wixyzz
If I ever find out just what this word can mean
I’ll be the smartest bird the world has ever seen!

It could be a kind of an elephant
Or some kind of kazoo
Or strange, exotic turtle
You’ll never see in a zoo
Or maybe a kind of a doggie
Or a (special?) shade of blue
um…something, something, something. something…

Fenris Bird (I can’t be the only one who remembers this, can I?)

[lieu]

If you’re polite, the “P” is always silent.

[Doubting_Robert]

A B C D goldfish?
L, M N O goldfish!
S M R. C M P N?

[auntie_em]

*Originally posted by Fenris *
:: tries to dredge up 30 year old memories ::
Ab-cadef-ghi-jekyl-m’nop-qurstuv-wixyzz
It’s the most remarkable word I’ve ever seen
Ab-cadef-ghi-jekyl-m’nop-qurstuv-wixyzz
I wish I knew exactly what it means
It starts out like an “A” word as anyone can see
But somewhere in the middle it gets awful queer to me
Ab-cadef-ghi-jekyl-m’nop-qurstuv-wixyz**z
If I ever find out just what this word can mean
I’ll be the smartest bird the world has ever seen!

It could be a kind of an elephant
Or some kind of kazoo
Or strange, exotic turtle
You’ll never see in a zoo
Or maybe a kind of a doggie
Or a (special?) shade of blue
um…something, something, something. something…

Fenris Bird (I can’t be the only one who remembers this, can I?) **

I immediately started screaming and clapping my hands when I read this post! I was planning to post it myself, but decided to see if anyone else would beat me to it…

Not only was I beaten, my coworkers now think I’m being attacked by fruit flies in here.

Thanks!

[auntie_em]

It might be kind of an elephant,
Or a funny kind of kazoo.
Or a strange exotic turtle
You never see in a zoo.
Or maybe a kind of a doggie
A particular shade of blue.
Or maybe a pretty flower
Naah, not with a name like that, uh-uh!

[auntie_em]

C D B! D B S A B-Z B.

[Flamsterette_X]

*Originally posted by Dijon Warlock *
**Actually, Flamsterette_X, you wouldn’t be the first. I used to collect grimoires (“authentic” books on magic), and several of those alphabets were given as “magical” alphabets in them. A more recent use of one was in the Blair Witch Project and (presumably) its sequel. Going to http://www.blairwitch.com/lang.html and clicking on the link called “Transitus Fluvii” will give you the so-called Witch’s Cypher, which is actually a slightly modified Chaldean 10 from my link with the last two letters (t and sch) stuck at the front to throw off the unwary. You think they could have at least invented their own script, rather than shamelessly lifting one. **

You mean other people beat me to it, and the idea was not original with me? Damn!

I’ve heard of grimoires before, thanks to reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon… an excellent series! If I want to say any more, I’ll post up in Cafe Society. (or do a search first, hehe)

I’ve seen Blair Witch 2… didn’t think much of it, and that’s all I’m going to say. (not creating a new thread up in Cafe Society just for that movie!)

[Linus_Van_Pelt]

I occasionally wondered how someone gets to 5000+ posts. I understand now, I think.

No Fenris, you are absolutely not the only one who remembers that. Unfortunately, my neigbor was the one who owned the record, so all I ever can remember is the first couple of lines. I also remember that flash of realization -“oh, That’s what it’s about!” (I was pretty young).

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16!
16 Vunderful posts!

Ah, ah, ha!
(lightning and thunder)

[Caught_Work]

It takes a very special skill to insult someone alphabetically. This type of insult is known as an abecedarian insult. I provide an example below.

‘Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte’.

This is translated thus :

‘Sir, you are an impotent, conceited, obscene, hairy-buttocked, brainless, wicked, toadying, goatish, indecent, stable-smelling, hunchbacked, thick-lipped, stinking, turnip-shaped, feeble-minded, pimply, trashy, repellant, smarmy, foul-mouthed, greasy, gluttonous, loathsome, wooden-headed, whining, extremely low form of animal life.’

[meezer]

I C U R
I C U B
I C U R
2 YYs 4 ME

[Scylla]

Why is this thread still alive?

More importantly why do threads like this live a long while when something like this dies fast?

[Flamsterette_X]

*Originally posted by Scylla *
**Why is this thread still alive?

More importantly why do threads like this live a long while when something like this dies fast? **

I have no idea why this thread is still alive; maybe we all like the inane, relatively pointless stuff better than the stuff you have to thnk about! (I’m sure that’s true of the majority of us at least SOME of the time, right?) Who knows… but that’s my humble opinion!

[sub]Opinions are just that… opinions. They are not absolute facts on right and wrong, and should be taken with a grain of salt![/sub]

I wish I had something to add to the “alphabetical” file… wait! I do! This is from the 1996 edition of THe Guinness Book of Records:

The languafe with the most letters is Khmer (Cambodian), with 74 (including some without any current use).

Rotokas of central Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea has the fewest letters, with 11 (a, b, e, g, i, k, o, p, r, t, and u).