Instead of putting accents over the letters to make them have different sounds, why not just make new letters?
I’m working on a solution to our debt crisis through an Ocean’s Eleven type heist of the world’s gold. The plan probably won’t help the European economy much.
Back before there was a cure, wasn’t rabies basically the zombie rage virus? If a rabid animal bites you, you become one. Didn’t really threaten us with a zombie apocalypse, though.
Back in old days you could take your trusty rifle and shoot any varmint started foamin’ at the mouth. Try that in New England now and go to jail. (This is law enforcement’s way of doing an end-run on the 2nd Amendment.) They’d rather have you as a zombie. Or, actually, they’d rather have all the old and weak defenseless against the strong and knifey than take the chance that guns will be used against armed officers. I mean, I can’t blame them in a way, but also, I know an elderly couple in Albany, NY, who got killed by a creep with a knife, and the cops’ sympathy was not enough to make everyone happy.
As for special characters (that is, accents), you really want an alphabet with more than 100 letters? You know how hard it would be to type on a BlackBerry then? Think of the children, Frank!
The guy who invented the Korean’s Hangul script was a genius. You get all the benefits of the precision of the exact specification of vowel sounds, plus it’s pretty succinct on the letters and it doesn’t require “E” modifiers at the end of words to leave ambiguity in how some things should be pronounced like English does (say, the book of Job in the Bible.) On the other hand, when I visited Korea in 2004, there was this Mel Gibson movie out, “The Passion of the Ku-ru-is-ti”. (Yes, the transliteration was that awkward. The “i” at the end is though just a concession to how Koreans pronounce things; my brother, who was my host and lived just down from the Hyatt, told me if I got lost, just ask a taxi driver to take me to the “Hee-ah-ti” hotel.)
The next “Twilight” movie is about a love triangle between Bella, Edward and Old Yeller. I don’t want to give away the ending but bring a hanky!
Dog Zombies – that’s a movie just waiting to happen. Sort of like Snow Buddies meets Contagion. Talk about crossover appeal!
Sorry, Frank. Your gold heist idea would fall a bit short. In all of human history we’ve mined a total of just over 5 billion ounces of gold. This morning’s spot price was $1757 an ounce. That’s about $9 trillion dollars. So all of the gold in the world . . . gets you barely halfway there. But it sure would be a good movie. Just don’t let Clooney play the lead part.
Zombie Buddies is a movie that MUST be made.
Instead of putting accents over the letters to make them have different sounds, why not just make new letters?
Good idea. Can we use the letters from On Beyond Zebra? I really like that book.
In terms of volume, gold theft might be possible. The amount of gold ever mined would fit a cube 80′ on a side (286 in metric). Toss in the world supply of platinum, which would fill a cube 20′ on a side (429 in metric), and you could fit the load in about 8 Chevy Silverados (according to the commercials).
That’s no good Burmashave – all that gold and platinum would barely cover the cost of gas for the Silverados.
Oooooo, that was good, Cat.
When I visited Japan more than twenty years ago, a helpful citizen tried to explain where I would find a restaurant that served food an American might like. It took me a while to realize that “Mackadonnadoes” meant “McDonald’s.” I have been using the positively musical “Mackadonnadoes” ever since.
Frank, there is no cure for rabies, or chicken pox, or flu. These things can be prevented by vaccination, but they can’t be cured. Wish there was a humorous way to say that. DamnCat could probably come up with it.
back in the day everyone knew to keep silver bullets in their guns to deal with rabid dogs, squirrels, raccoons, muskrats, opossums, etc. nowadays, not so much. have we really evolved as a society?
FrankJ:
Good news!
You can win a sweet Beretta Silver Pigeon 12 gauge over/under! All you have to do is prove that climate change shouldn’t concern anyone!
http://grist.org/list/prove-climate-change-doesnt-exist-get-an-awesome-gun/
Given how obvious it is that climate change is a grand global conspiracy by scientists who want grant money to drill for ice core samples in Greenland, this task should be easy for you.
No need to thank me, I am just glad I can help you indulge in your gun fetish.
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
I want to know how much Gold is in Fort Knox! I’ll bet she’s as empty and cold as Hillary Clinton’s heart!!!
Phil Valentine should be getting his new shotgun anytime now!
Just saw the movie “An Inconsistent Truth” tonight.
Bravo Phil!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0mxL-BekLE
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton
I always think of Atticus Finch shooting the rabid dog in the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” when rabies is is under discussion. Gregory Peck uses a milsurp Krag-Jorgenson rifle to dispatch the poor beast, his every motion in the scene demonstrating that he is dealing with a life or death situation where a mistake could mean an innocent human might die. Then he remembers he’s late for work, and leaves, telling the kids to leave the dead dog alone. What a guy!