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First Man on the moon
July HL 1060
I MELIM MAT THIS WEIN
SHOW WENT HSIF IO MCMAX
THE SHI CIFM THE COM
IS OUT OF LNONG A MAN
CH THE HEON NG MECNING HW
SAPCD A THE COME
AN SINLI SAME PAENG IN THE
WHOWANG TELL DE AND TWESM
A HSACM A NG IMADTAX
HON NO LING SHE ENOLDAL
O SHE NG ON THE NE TO
SLEENME OF COMEN PO
MCCM TH
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They may have have mistaken the Vikings (793 A.D and 1066 A.D) with the Viking liquid-fueled rockets (1949 -)
THis is the worst spelling ever seen! I believe whoever wanted to print this shirt wanted to be in english but nowhere to start! So instead threw a bunch of letter combined.
Strangely enough, I went to school with some kids who used that approach to essays.
Not first ON the moon, but first FROM the moon. Someone’s talking out of their a$$.
….causing the paeng in the whowang!
Now there’s a trivia question. Everyone knows who was the first man on the Moon, but who was the first man from the Moon? (was Aldrin or Armstrong first to leave the capsule?)
I would imagine Armstrong, being the mission commander, departed last.
If I understand correctly, you’d need to get the guy in the centre seat out of the capsule first, because the other 2 would have to climb on him otherwise.
Armstrong was. You know, that whole “one small step” thing?
No, he was the first man on the Moon. I was wondering whether Aldrin or Armstrong left the capsule first after returning to Earth.
WHERE CAN I GET THIS SHIRT
All Australians know that it was Mr Squiggle, the man from the moon. (If you don’t know who this puppet was, go and look in Wikipedia; I tried to put the link in, but it has been moderated away. I have no idea why a puppet who turns children’s scribbles into pictures would be deemed offensive by the mods.)
Blackboard says “hurry up”.
Eugene Cernan (Per Wikipedia), from the last mission to put man on the moon, Apollo 17.
That sounded like Joey Tribbiani speaking French.
Duh mah doveddeh le floof
Pheobe: That was horrible, how do you think your doing good?
Joey: THE GUY ON THE TAPE SAID SO!
C’est mon cousin… Il est un peu retardé
Pheobe: Je m’appelle Claude.
Joey: Ge me bli bloop.
more like Alex Trebek
J’ai perdu la plume de ma tante dans le jardin, ou il y a beacoup de merde du chien.
I can imagine that it was a copy of an original T-shirt.
The photograph was taken with a 0.3 Megapixel camera
Printed on a 9 dot-matrix printer
Faxed to China
and transferred to a shirt by a myopic worker in an ill-illuminated sweat shop.
Then how’d they get the rocket right??
Maybe the rocket checker of their imaging software is just a lot better than the spell checker?
So you’re saying rocket science is easier than spelling?
Yeah, I know some people who would agree with that.
Ask an engineer, I think they’ll probably agree with that.
Many engineers would agree with that, since they tend to be quantitative people and are sometimes less skilled with words. As someone who taught statistics to graduate students in psychology, education, and counseling, I can assure you that many of them are utterly terrified of the simplest equations, even some whose spelling is flawless.
I can’t see the problem, it makes perfect sense to me.
Sometimes it pays to be dyslexic.
So how much does being a dyslexic pay? I’m a little old for a career change, but if the salary and bennies are a whole lot better, why not? (Or should I say, why nto?)
$300 lollards a moth
Looks like perhaps we’ve got some dialogue near the end: “Hon no, Ling,” she enoldal. “O, she ng on the ne to,” Sleenme of Comen po mccm th.
Don’t you always hate it when the show goes hsif io mcmax? Especially before it even gets to Broadway!
Yes, when that happens it really gets on my ne to.
Every once in a while this site gets something that is obviously the result of an imperfect Optical Character Recognition scan and nobody there speaking the language to be able to proofread it.
This has got to be the same thing, but the source they were reading from must have been horrible quality in the first place.
Perhaps it was the original Magna Carta. After repeated machine washings.
…merJanthfgrr five dollars??!!!? get outta here
Well, I know that the ancient Chinese are the pioneers of fireworks and rockets… but that they apparently landed on the moon in July 1060 – now that’s just really impressive!
And apparently NASA must have known all about it, since they obviously patterned the Saturn C-5 after the ancient Chinese design. And then we complain about the Chinese copying a few DVDs!
To quote Neal Armstrong, “That’s ome snell ctip fon ram, obe gland head tor namkirb.”
an his th spaceship “Apolcllaocal”
Gland head, what?
Why? Are you namkirb?
It’s the Rosetta Stone … from the MOON!
Hahaha! Good one.
Rosetta are you better a to comen po.
Dude, that shirt is SO funny once you translate!
>.>
Try to use google translator to see if you get anything. LOLs
I translated it from Enlish to simplified Chinese and back, and didn’t learn anything, except that Paeng did not have the mausoleum.
I MELIM pad because of this kawet
Show, he HSIF Io MCMAX
The history of CIFM of COM
Yes, LNONG A man out of
Wu MECNING hardware constitution of methane
SAPCD Alai
On the same Peng Sun Lane in the
WHOWANG told the DE and TWESM
A HSACM A Wu IMADTAX
Member Number Ling She ENOLDAL
Ø She Wu NE to the
SLEENME’s Comen Paul
Fun Day is also
Translated from English – Chinese simplified – english…. and i must say… WTHF?
Man that’s some HEP poetry. Just diggin’ it…
Fun Day is also.
SLEENME’s comin’, hide your heart Paul
SLEENME’s comin’, hide your heart Paul
Paul! SLEENME’S comin’, you better hide
Paul! SLEENME’S comin’, you better hide
Paul! SLEENME’S comin’, hide your heart, Paul.
I’d like to buy a vowel….
And now I’d like to solve the puzzle, Pat.
Oh, sorry, I think you just went bankrupt.
wfht?
Wait, this could be a code for the trolls of this site. I remember my stalking troll once said something to me in random words. It must have been in their language.
Do we have any trolls that can interpret?
Where’s ShadowTroll when you need him?
Please!!! Be careful what you wish for.
He saw his shadow and, thinking this meant six more weeks of winter, returned to his burrow, not realizing that it was fall (or spring, depending on one’s hemisphere).
I’m a troll, thought i could not possibly divulge such information. The troll king would not be best pleased…
wow i need to think about the direction of my life….
hmmm…
i wonder who wang the telldephone
it’s welsh
Nah, too many vowels.
and not enough L’s
Looks more like Old Norse. Probably part of an epic about a man called Melim, who was very tall and had a mincing gait. He seems to be doing something quite unspeakable to a fair maid called Twesm and there’s quite a mess to clear up afterwards. Those Vikings eh?
This is an exact transcript of the Apollo 11 mission transmissions after Michael Collins in the command module revealed to Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin that the lunar module’s life support had been spiked with nitrous oxide. Commander Armstrong got pissed off, as you can tell, but Aldrin got all buzzed and giggly.
As punishment, Armstrong made Collins breathe a mixture of helium with just a bit of oxygen all the way home, which is why on the return trip, Collins sounded just like Daisy Duck.
Proves the whole landing was a hoax!!!
Hisko!
H-I-S-K-O that’s the way we Hisko!
Is that where you keep your asterisks?
I thought Hisko was the apostrophe depository.
The other side stores asterisks.
I’ve looked at Hisko
From both sides now
From ‘ and *
And still somehow
Hisko’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know Hisko at all
Do you know Herko?
Wasn’t he one of a pair of birds, Herko and Jerko?
I was thinking more of Hisko and Herko.
Is that what your towels say?
My towels don’t usually talk to me…
Um,dthis callsbkafka forf a #!#1 sandwich!
*Person next to me: head explodes*
I don’t…oh now I get it! *My head explodes*
I got it! This is a souvenir shirt from the moon! And it’s written in moonspeak! That’s how they talk up there!
Strange you should say that – I am currently making my way through Beowulf, and I’d swear that this passage appeared some time around the place where Beowulf meets King Hrothgar’s men, and they have what is essentially a whowang-measuring contest.
I had to read Beowulf in college. This makes more sense.
I’ve never read it. Is it any good?
I liked it, but that may not be a ringing endorsement, as I would read anything then. There is a book called “Grendel” by John Gardner which I liked. It is written from the monster’s point of view.
I read both of them in English AP class in High School. The Beowulf was hard for me back then because they use old German English. “Grendel” was a lot easier to read. And once you see things from his point of view, you even feel sorry for him.
It’s been awhile; is “Grendel” the one where Beowulf is blind from bee stings, but he can see forms as golden light? I found those passages really beautiful.
JohnB, just kind of relax and go with it and it suddenly clicks and makes sense… the more you do it the easier it gets…
At the moment, I have a full-time job, a disabled wife, a very demanding ten-year-old daughter, am working on a doctorate, am performing ministerial functions when I have time, and now, when my father has momderate Alzheimer’s disease and my mother is in failing health herself, I have agreed to take them in, and they’ll be moving here in three weeks. The list of things I need to do is never-ending; the list of things I’d like to do if I ever have time is extremely long, and I’ve reached an age when I’m coming to realize that many of those may never be done. And no offense, but Beowulf is not near the top of that list right now. That’s why I feel such a strong need for humor, because if I can’t laugh I am lost. I’m not looking for sympathy or even empathy, because I know that there isn’t anything that’s going to happen that God won’t help me handle. He showed me his grace when I was utterly lost and didn’t deserve it, and so I know he won’t fail me now. But thank you all for the laughs, which help immeasureably.
I’ll do what I can.
We will all be running at full capacity to help out.
The pace you’ve been running at is just fine!
I’m in the same crunch for time, JohnB, I understand! Most of what I have read, I read before I was 25. I am very grateful now for the habit I once had of devouring books; I could not do that now. I also come here because I need the laughs. I think contemplating the absurdity of the language and the responses helps keep me more alert for the other challenges…
Agreed. Oh, when I was a teen, I had no social life, but I’d knock down three, four, five books in a weekend. Fiction, nonfiction, classics, and lots and lots of sci-fi. Whenever I haven’t been in school, I have tended to read a lot more, because when I’m taking courses I have to do so much reading that I don’t feel much like picking up a book if I have a spare moment. I often state that formal schooling can be hazardous to your education.
I always felt sorry for Grendel – talk about a bum deal. I wanted to hit Hrothgar over the head with a blunt object.
If you liked Chaucer, you might like Beowulf. If, like me, you get headaches trying to translate archaic spellings into words you recognize, give it a pass.
They wouldn’t let us read The Wife of Bath’s Tale when we were doing Chaucer at high school, so naturally we went and looked it up for ourselves. I loved reading Chaucer.
I had no patience in those days, and for titillation had already discovered sources that required considerably less effort. So I puzzled out enough to pass the tests, a strategy I used often back then.
I don’t recall ever reading Chaucer, either. Is that any good?
You ask that a lot… anything that hangs around in the culture for that long has something going for it.
Some writers transcend their time, and Chaucer was one of them.
Look for writers who speak beyond their own lifetime, and you can’t go wrong. They may be difficult to read, but once they’re under your belt you’ve got something no one can take away.
I bet you would LOVE Petronius!!!!
Give “Satyricon” a try.
I like knowing about things I haven’t read yet that I might like. I’ve been pretty busy lately, though, so it is taking me much longer than it should to read what I’ve been reading. I’m reading the Warriors series by Erin Hunter, and I’m on the third series. Back in the day, I could have read at least two or three of the books in a day, but now, with everything else taking up my time, it is sometimes taking me over a week to finish just one! I only get time to read a little here and there, mostly at lunch.
Fellini’s Satyricon is also excellent.
I gave up on staying current with popular fiction. It began to appeal to me less and less.
Don’t know Erin Hunter, does it have any tooth to it?
They are actually marketed for young adults, but any cat or cat lover will enjoy them. They are about feral cats living in the forest, and yes, they all have teeth. There are also supernatural elements.
Oh, Trimalchio!
The language can be a bit tricky to start with – I found that initially, reading it out loud helped because you could understand what the gist of a sentence was, even if you didn’t get every single word exactly right. In places, it’s just old-fashioned bawdy, and for some reason (maybe because I have a puerile brain in that way) the middle ages spellings just made it even funnier: “He kysd her un her nekked erse!”
I try to nest my comment under keithybabes’ observation about the similarity to old Norse.
I fail.
It becomes much clearer when running it through a spell check:
I Melinda mat this wine
show went HSBC bio McMillan
the ship city the coma
is out of Lebanon a man
chi the heroin nag mechanizing how
sapwood a the come
an sinless same paella in the
whizzbang tell dye and twerp
a hacksaw a nag imaginary
horn no ling she genocidal
o she nag on the new to
sleepwear of cowmen pot
McCain tho.
Much clearer indeed.
Taken from the screen adaptation of The Talmud, by Quentin Tarantino, isn’t it?
Seems to me I vaguely recall Chi, the heroin nag, from the bad old days. They must have invented cowmen pot, though, after I got out.
Yes, it does make more sense that way.
It’s the final verse of “‘Twas brillig”!
Please, don’t gyre and gimble in the wabe.
Beware the jabberwock!
My borogoves are all a-mimsy.
That’s what she said!
It’s the unpublished poem from the Mad Hatter in Alice In Wonderland.
Oh, what Johnny Depp could do with this!
Or Andy Kaufman
It is probably Lipsum.
Ah, got it! Took me a while to figure out this is the Kennedy speech…