December 14, 2011 at 7:34 am
Koen Verbeeck (12/14/2011)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...back on-topic:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1221353-338-1.aspx
"How it could be?" Sounds like the title of a bad romance novel.
(not really nice of me to laugh with the language barrier)
The only thing they didn't use was the sky. They were too s**t-scared of it falling on their own heads :w00t:
Edit: This is my first-ever mis-quote. Apologies. It was meant to be a quote of Gus' comments on sledgehammers etc.
December 14, 2011 at 7:37 am
Jan Van der Eecken (12/14/2011)
Koen Verbeeck (12/14/2011)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...back on-topic:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1221353-338-1.aspx
"How it could be?" Sounds like the title of a bad romance novel.
(not really nice of me to laugh with the language barrier)
The only thing they didn't use was the sky. They were too s**t-scared of it falling on their own heads :w00t:
Edit: This is my first-ever mis-quote. Apologies. It was meant to be a quote of Gus' comments on sledgehammers etc.
Yeah... SSC does that when a lot of people are posting on the same thread at the same time.
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December 14, 2011 at 8:53 am
Divine Flame (12/14/2011)
Everybody is going insane here 😀 Reading the posts of this thread is fun & crazy 😎
Have to agree with Gus, going?
Actually, if you do take the time over the next few months to read the entire thread you will learn much about many of the main players on this site.
This thread has really become a water cooler for many of us.
Mean while, I am back of to the Tent in the Desert. I am sure the hippo is getting lonely as we haven't had a party there in a while. 😛
December 14, 2011 at 9:15 am
GSquared (12/14/2011)
Well, per the French scholars Goscinny and Uderzo, it was actually the ancient Gauls who used this method of settling certain disputes. Usually disputes over musical quality, if I remember correctly. 😛
No, the disputes over musical quality were generally settled with a tree, a rope, and a gag. :w00t:
The fish method was used by the Gauls mainly for settling disputes over fishmonger hygeine 😀 (possibly because given their fishmonger's practises this was the only sensible use for the fish ;-)).
Very strange people those ancient Gauls, though. How could self repecting people let themselves be ruled by someone called ComprehensiveInsurance? With a name like that, he would surley have been promoting all sorts of useless policies.
Tom
December 14, 2011 at 9:24 am
L' Eomot Inversé (12/14/2011)
GSquared (12/14/2011)
Well, per the French scholars Goscinny and Uderzo, it was actually the ancient Gauls who used this method of settling certain disputes. Usually disputes over musical quality, if I remember correctly. 😛No, the disputes over musical quality were generally settled with a tree, a rope, and a gag. :w00t:
The fish method was used by the Gauls mainly for settling disputes over fishmonger hygeine 😀 (possibly because given their fishmonger's practises this was the only sensible use for the fish ;-)).
Very strange people those ancient Gauls, though. How could self repecting people let themselves be ruled by someone called ComprehensiveInsurance? With a name like that, he would surley have been promoting all sorts of useless policies.
Getafix will set it right, as usual.
December 14, 2011 at 9:27 am
L' Eomot Inversé (12/14/2011)
GSquared (12/14/2011)
Well, per the French scholars Goscinny and Uderzo, it was actually the ancient Gauls who used this method of settling certain disputes. Usually disputes over musical quality, if I remember correctly. 😛No, the disputes over musical quality were generally settled with a tree, a rope, and a gag. :w00t:
The fish method was used by the Gauls mainly for settling disputes over fishmonger hygeine 😀 (possibly because given their fishmonger's practises this was the only sensible use for the fish ;-)).
Very strange people those ancient Gauls, though. How could self repecting people let themselves be ruled by someone called ComprehensiveInsurance? With a name like that, he would surley have been promoting all sorts of useless policies.
In the American translations (most of them), his name is Vitalstatistix.
And yes, I fondly remember, in Asterix and the Black Gold, Unhygienix (the fishmonger) trying to sell Getafix (the druid) a "fresh fish straight from Londinium" or something like that. (The supporting cast names change in various translations. Asterix and Cleopatra has completely different names for the chief, the druid, the bard, and several others. So I thought I'd better ID the people by their description instead of just their names. Location names, like the Roman camps around the village, also change depending on the translator.)
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December 14, 2011 at 10:59 am
GSquared (12/14/2011)
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GSquared (12/14/2011)
Well, per the French scholars Goscinny and Uderzo, it was actually the ancient Gauls who used this method of settling certain disputes. Usually disputes over musical quality, if I remember correctly. 😛No, the disputes over musical quality were generally settled with a tree, a rope, and a gag. :w00t:
The fish method was used by the Gauls mainly for settling disputes over fishmonger hygeine 😀 (possibly because given their fishmonger's practises this was the only sensible use for the fish ;-)).
Very strange people those ancient Gauls, though. How could self repecting people let themselves be ruled by someone called ComprehensiveInsurance? With a name like that, he would surley have been promoting all sorts of useless policies.
In the American translations (most of them), his name is Vitalstatistix.
Drat, my memory was pkaying tricks on me. Assurancetorix (ComprehensiveInsurance) was the bard, not the chief, who was Abraracourcix (a bras raccourci - could mean any of with arm drawn back/with bent arm/very hard, I haven't a clue which of the three it was meant to mean in this name - or maybe the phrase has another possible meaning, except that I have a vague recollection of his being pictured standing on his shield with one arm raised and bent so maybe the first.)
And yes, I fondly remember, in Asterix and the Black Gold, Unhygienix (the fishmonger) trying to sell Getafix (the druid) a "fresh fish straight from Londinium" or something like that. (The supporting cast names change in various translations. Asterix and Cleopatra has completely different names for the chief, the druid, the bard, and several others. So I thought I'd better ID the people by their description instead of just their names. Location names, like the Roman camps around the village, also change depending on the translator.)
I think that translating these names is quite difficult, because one can't actually translate in every case - the result wouldn't be namelike, and making it end in ix might make the meaning too obscure - and one can't just leave the original names or the fact that the names are all meaningful phrases (which is part of the fun of the books) gets lost. The translator whose work you read did an excellent job with Unhygienix for the fishmonger (Ordralfabétix - Alphabetical order - in the original) and a fair job with Getafix for the druid (Panoramix in the original - so Panoramic, Panorama, or Pan [the swing of the camera] in English), with both names saying something about the underlying character.
Tom
December 14, 2011 at 10:59 am
I must be crazy, I haven't lost track of the thread and I'm pretty sure I know the story Gus is talking about! I think I played Getzalif the bum who was the narrator for that show. That might have been the play "Whatzit You hitz me with today?!" though. I've done a few.
Pork Chops: Get Jeff to tell the story, he started the insanity on that one! Short and slightly inaccurate version: Picture a desire for a wrist slingshot and frozen porkchop over dinner with an idiot.
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December 14, 2011 at 11:03 am
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December 14, 2011 at 11:03 am
Evil Kraig F (12/14/2011)
I must be crazy, I haven't lost track of the thread and I'm pretty sure I know the story Gus is talking about! I think I played Getzalif the bum who was the narrator for that show. That might have been the play "Whatzit You hitz me with today?!" though. I've done a few.Pork Chops: Get Jeff to tell the story, he started the insanity on that one! Short and slightly inaccurate version: Picture a desire for a wrist slingshot and frozen porkchop over dinner with an idiot.
Asterix comics. Very popular in Europe. I've only ever met one other American (outside my family) who had even heard of them. Absolutely hillarious!
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December 14, 2011 at 11:06 am
Jeff Moden (12/13/2011)
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....and anyway, isn't it somewhat improper to go around feeling posts? :w00t: Especially posts about pants? :laugh:BWAA-HAA! Only if the posts are in the pants. 😉
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December 14, 2011 at 11:07 am
Roy Ernest (12/14/2011)
You all are NUTS. I think I am the only sane person in the THREAD. 😀
That's what all the crazy people say...
December 14, 2011 at 11:11 am
Koen Verbeeck (12/14/2011)
Roy Ernest (12/14/2011)
You all are NUTS. I think I am the only sane person in the THREAD. 😀I loved the comment about our resident Santa. 🙂 Brilliant but crazy.... hahahahaha
By posting on this thread you're immediately disqualified as a sane person 🙂
(with the sole exception of the OP of course)
Precisely
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December 14, 2011 at 11:18 am
GSquared (12/14/2011)
Evil Kraig F (12/14/2011)
I must be crazy, I haven't lost track of the thread and I'm pretty sure I know the story Gus is talking about! I think I played Getzalif the bum who was the narrator for that show. That might have been the play "Whatzit You hitz me with today?!" though. I've done a few.Pork Chops: Get Jeff to tell the story, he started the insanity on that one! Short and slightly inaccurate version: Picture a desire for a wrist slingshot and frozen porkchop over dinner with an idiot.
Asterix comics. Very popular in Europe. I've only ever met one other American (outside my family) who had even heard of them. Absolutely hillarious!
I had a bunch of these when I was a kid. Rather, my younger brother had them and I read them as well.
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December 14, 2011 at 11:30 am
Here I go asking for opinions again
Does anyone know about configuring your sql server on a SAN? Or have opinions about the best place to put the files?
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