tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 17 10:11:39 1997
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Re: Explain cultural references
At 06:21 AM 8/17/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:13:48 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: SuSvaj <[email protected]>
>>
>>Thanks Qov. I'm American and I didn't even get that at first :-/
>
>Oh, I didn't get most of the "jokes" people have founs (though I did see
>ghIgh/gig and QIS/kris)... One I haven't seen pointed out yet is "'atlhqam"
>as a type of fungus (translate qam and squint at 'atlh...) Hew for statue
>is a straightforward eye-pun... I missed most ofthe obvious ones though.
I pointed out {'atlhqam} a few days ago, along with {Su'lop}, and
{qompogh}. Actually, {atlhqam} was the first joke I caught in the book!
-mIqIraH