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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Phat Member Posts: 18348 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
Image not found. What were you trying to show us?
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. ~RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " ~"We, humans, are engaged in an ongoing war of ideologies. I see it in this microcosm of EvC Forum just as I see it in the governments and attitudes of people throughout the world. Take your pick: Oppression or Seduction . "~Thugpreacha You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.~Ringo
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.? R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Phat writes: Image not found. What were you trying to show us? it's the logged/logged out problem - sadly I can't fix it as, if I log out of the forum the image is on, I can't get into it to copy the picture. Pity, it's the best joke in 2,000 years. Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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jar Member (Idle past 423 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
It's only there if it's in your cache. Logged in or out it's not there for anyone else.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
I mean logged into the forum that has the original image.
Posting the url of the image here doesn't work because this forum would have to be logged into that forum to be able to grab it.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8564 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
Do you have reverse image search? That same image may be out on the net somewhere that might be more accessible from this forum.
I wouldn't want to miss the best joke in the last 2000 years. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
My approach is to have an images directory on my web site, upload the image to that directory, and then use its URL in the img tag here.
Just in case that idea might help.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1054 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined:
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At this stage I feel it would cheapen the image to see it. The reality will never be able to compete with the 'Image Not Found' of our imaginations.
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Phat Member Posts: 18348 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
Actually, image not found is a subtle joke in and of itself. What happened 2000 years ago? Do we have pictures? Icons maybe?...i think i see subtle humor.
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. ~RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " ~"We, humans, are engaged in an ongoing war of ideologies. I see it in this microcosm of EvC Forum just as I see it in the governments and attitudes of people throughout the world. Take your pick: Oppression or Seduction . "~Thugpreacha You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.~Ringo
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.? R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
Second is a list of "fortune cookie" sayings which was current for the UNIX fortune circa 1988, which is when I downloaded the text file from CompuServe.
UNIX Fortune Cookie List First is a similar list of Irish and Scottish sayings/proverbs. My posting of this list prompted me to also post the "fortune cookie" list above. This list gives the original Gaelic saying followed by a translation.
Seanfhocail: Irish and Scottish Proverbs BTW, here "sean" means "old", so I assume that "fhocail" must mean something like "saying". Similar is the term "sean tigh", "old house", which sounds like "shanty" which gives us the term, "shanty town", that part of town consisting of old houses. There are several surprising borrowings from Irish to English.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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Icons maybe?...i think i see subtle humor. Two or three decades ago I downloaded some computer humor files, a few of which purported to be actual technical help sessions over the phone. In one, the customer was using Windows, so the techie instructed the customer to click on an icon. "I'm a Christian! I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ICONS!" It's been a decade or two, so I forget tech support's response to that.
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Heathen Member (Idle past 1312 days) Posts: 1067 From: Brizzle Joined:
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I assume that "fhocail" must mean something like "saying". "Fhocail" (focail) is Irish for "words",(focal is the singular - word) the"h" will come and go depending on useage it is a aid to procunciation and generally renders the "f" silent. Seanfhocail is pronounced "shan-uckal" Edited by Heathen, : No reason given. Edited by Heathen, : No reason given. Edited by Heathen, : No reason given.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
So then "seanfhocail" would mean "old words". Makes sense. Thanks.
The action of that "h" sounds like lenation, a common sound change of consonants in Scottish Gaelic. The problem I had in trying to study that language was a lack of spoken examples coupled with a complex set of pronunciation rules that seemed to frequently change out from under me, not helped by a lack of phonetic renderings (at least the very few I saw, such as "tigh" for "house", were in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Guess I'm going to have to win the lottery so I can go to that language school in Inverness (assuming it's still there). For our USA members, when I was in Scotland and Ireland (though not Northern Ireland) all the street signs were bilingual English/Gaelic.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1054 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
For our USA members, when I was in Scotland and Ireland (though not Northern Ireland) all the street signs were bilingual English/Gaelic. Not sure when you were there, but I think you may be misremembering. Most road signs in Scotland are not bilingual. They are in Wales.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
That was in July 2015. I noticed it in and around Inverness which is where I especially noticed it, but I didn't notice it in the previous stop, Edinburgh, nor was I looking for it near Glasgow. It could well be that the practice of bilingual road signs is regional. BTW, I did notice it in Dublin (but didn't pay attention in the Cobh region) and I noticed its lack in Belfast and the surrounding countryside.
It was out of Inverness that I got clued in that the word "inbher" ("inver" in English) refers to the mouth of a river. "Inbher Ness" is at the mouth of the River Ness, as Invergordon is at the mouth of the River Gordon. And near Glasgow our guide took us to a village on the mouth of the Ary, Inverary (and to the castle there that was used in an episode of "Downton Abbey").
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