Linux Ethnic

Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations

        Various signs in Poland:

                Right turn toward immediate outside.

                Go soothingly in the snow, as there lurk the ski demons.

                Five o'clock tea at all hours.

        In a men's washroom in Sidney:

                Shake excess water from hands, push button to start,
                rub hands rapidly under air outlet and wipe hands
                on front of shirt.

                -- Colin Bowles, San Francisco Chronicle

Iowans ask why Minnesotans don't drink more Kool-Aid.  That's because
they can't figure out how to get two quarts of water into one of those
little paper envelopes.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
                -- Herb Caen

It's hard to argue that God hated Oklahoma.  If He didn't, why is it so
close to Texas?

It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either.
                -- Kevin White, Mayor of Boston

It's not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent too.
                -- Alexander Korda

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that
English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many
other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.
                -- Sydney J. Harris

It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else
follows in the same way.
                -- Alan J. Perlis

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made
sense from things she found in gift shops.
                -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.