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Overheard at WisCon

  • May. 26th, 2008 at 8:44 PM
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11.) "I need to pee--"
       "Not here."

12.) R'lyehan tourist phrasebook:

Help. I am being devoured by your octopus.

My species does not breathe water.

No thank you. I do not wish a fungus.

I'm sorry, no. I have claustrophobia.

You seem to have a frog in your throat.
You seem to have a frog in your soup.
You seem to have a frog in your pants.

Would you like a lemon drop?
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[info]cjtremlett wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 03:05 am (UTC)
Casa Cthulhu appreciates Number 12.

We've had a bottle of mead. We're giggling far too hard now!
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[info]thespian wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 04:24 am (UTC)
I was at a gathering of authors after a signing at Pandemonium, and at one point, people were discussing a phrasebook entirely made of phrases that you hoped you'd never need to use in other languages. People threw out a whole bunch of them, and there was laughter, and it sort of drifted off, and suddenly, from the other end of the table, Joe Haldeman quietly said, "That was not the leg you were supposed to amputate."
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[info]rezendi wrote:
May. 28th, 2008 09:49 pm (UTC)
A friend of mine was getting knee surgery in Hong Kong and was just going under when suddenly he realized the doctors were talking (in Mandarin) about performing the surgery on the wrong knee.

Fortunately, he managed to convey this to them before he passed out...
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[info]caprine wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 05:58 am (UTC)
I am guessing that the R'lyehan tourist phrasebook is an homage to Joanna Russ' 1972 lexicon story "Useful Phrases for the Tourist". It is also entirely made of win. Ia! Ia!
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[info]mattador wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 06:18 am (UTC)
Love #12.
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[info]slothman wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 06:38 am (UTC)
Ha!
What is the way to the nearest restroom in my dimensional locus?
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[info]jerusha wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 03:53 pm (UTC)
Re: Ha!
Nearest restroom suitable for my anatomy and physiology, please! I don't know what creatures from other dimensions use for toilets, and I don't want to find out by accident.
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[info]brithistorian wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 09:23 pm (UTC)
Just thought you might like to know: Wil Wheaton has blogged about this.
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[info]matociquala wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 09:23 pm (UTC)
I saw! Thank you. (I read Wil's blog. *g*)
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[info]brithistorian wrote:
May. 27th, 2008 09:58 pm (UTC)
OK - I didn't know if you read him or not and wanted to be sure you saw this. :-)
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[info]steve_buchheit wrote:
May. 30th, 2008 02:23 am (UTC)
Ah, useful phrases as you're driven insane and having your mind consumed.

Uh, wait, Me hovercraft is full of eels. No, that doesn't sound right. ARGH!
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