tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 31 16:12:22 1997
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Re: Son of KGT puns
- From: Bill Willmerdinger <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Son of KGT puns
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 18:34:58 -0400
- Organization: IKV Crystal Dagger, Klingon Assault Group Rochester NY
- References: <[email protected]>
Susan Farmer wrote:
> First you feed the critter SI'lop (the book is upstairs, pardon for the
> mispellings), and then you kill it and remove the stomach and the
> partially digested QuD. (Theological note -- one doesn't feed cows slop
> one slops pigs -- but pigs don't chew their cud which is why they're not
> kosher. Do you reckon that this means Klingon Pigs are kosher?)
Got these two. And, didn't we decide that targhmey *aren't* kosher? Or
was it the other way around? Something about cloven hooves? (I lost
track halfway through that discussion; I don't understand all the kosher
rules in English, let alone in Klingon!)
> But the part that absolutely cracked me up was the herbed, breaded,
> fat-back was called a tlhombuS (aka a blood clot ...) Guess it doesn't
> much matter where in the universe you are -- too much fat clogs up
> *anybody's* arteries.
I don't get this part. What's funny about {tlhombuS}? Or is this just
my mundane culinary upbringing showing?
> I did notice that all the words in the text *aren't* in the word list
> in the back. Wonder why. I also noticed that many of the puns "athletes
> foot" for fungus are aluded to in the text as well.
Yeah, there seem to be a lot of words from the text not in the word list
(and vice versa). Strange.
> tevram goes back to reading and giggling, now.
tevram is not alone.
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