i’m a scuba diver. queen → obvious
I googled Nars yarn and Glinley yarn. I’m still
Mine is named for the last word in my favorite play, *Cyrano de Bergerac. * It’s a pun, meaning both a white plume and . . . panache. Some people consider this not a very good translation, and they prefer it ending with “white plume.” They may be right, concerning the translation as a whole, but I think the pun “panache” is in keeping with the context.
And I was born in 1945.
Try this!
Srsly? No idea?
Boyard is a horse used by a Templar to ride into battle against a particularly ugly witch, unfazed by the hideousness due to his blindness.
No mystery here.
I like Rush and I’m kinda geeky. Or I was back in the day.
Limbaugh?
LOL!
Reversal of Temasek - old name for Singapore where I currently reside
OK, I can guess. I suppose I could have gone for Major Clanger but 1) It would feel a bit presumptuous and 2) He was a bit of a chump whose flying machines/space craft* tended not to work when Small Clanger’s did**.
*make sense yet?
** Small Clanger pilots the music boat. But of course you knew that
It’s a socratic homage to my own ignorance.
I like how you couldn’t use spaces in old filenames, and had to use the underscores.
I also don’t know anything.
A few seconds after selecting my username I wanted to change it to I_Know_Knothing, but I was too late. I have to live with this mistake every day of my life.
It’s the phonetic spelling of a pun played off ‘wunderbar’, the German word for wonderful. That, and my real given name is Robert.
The inspiraton came from the punchline of an Amish ethnic joke; it was so otherwise boring that I don’t remember it well enough to repeat it.
I’ve been losing sleep trying to imagine an Amish joke. Please tell what you can remember of it.
Not the joke in question, but one I do remember well because I was there when my dad told it to my cold fish grandfather; I never saw so much emotion from him before or after.
Spoilered, in case someone else doesn’t like Polish jokes, too.
A Polack once had a farm next to an Amish farmer. Knowing that the Amish were famed for their carpentry skills, he asked his neighbor if he would help cut a larger doorway into the barn, because the mule’s ears hit the top of the door when led through, and were constantly bloody.
The Amishman said sure, and went to look at the problem.
“You have structural members surrounding the door, but nothing underneath. Instead of making the doorway bigger, why not dig out the threshhold instead?”
The Polack replied, “You stupid Amishman, the mule’s ears are too long, not his legs!”
Now you know why Amish jokes never made it big.
Beautiful! Thanks. I had heard it but without the Amish twist. A good one for sure.
In a way it reminds me of this one: Two Polacks were roofing a house and one of them kept pulling nails out of his bag and tossing them away. His buddy asked, “Why are you throwing those perfectly good nails away?” So the first one replied, “They’re pointed the wrong way.” So the second scoffs and says, “You imbecile! They’re for the other side of the roof!”
From “The Truman Show”, of course. I hesitated many months from registering because I have no imagination to speak of, and you all intimidated me with the wit and sparkle of your user names. Then I rented the the movie to show my kids, and what the heck…
Touché, Darth Hobo, touché.