tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 26 11:15:06 1995

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Re: }}} Victory Song / battle cry



>Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:59:11 -0400
>From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>

>>Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 13:42:09 -0400 (EDT)
>>From: "Elizabeth C. Hoyt" <[email protected]>

>>On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:

>>> >From: [email protected]
>>> >
>>> >It's the closest I could come to "Eat Paint & Die!"

>>> It looks to me like you're trying to translate the pun of English "Eat
>>> paint and dye!" 

>>I never heard that pun until now. I saw it as a toned-down paint-ball 
>>version of "eat s--- and die."

>Really?  Hee... I was confused by your choice of what to eat... why paint?
>I assumed you must have had *some* reason for picking it (why not "poison"
>[we have a word for that] or "garbage" or "my knife"?), so I thought about
>it... and saw the pun in "paint" and "die"... So I assumed it was there on
>purpose.  Heh... Guess I was trying to read too much in.

jIDoghba'.  It's a slogan for a PAINTball team, duh.  Hence the use of
PAINT in the slogan.  It's all this Klingon, it does things to the brain.

And I think I got the attribution wrong too.

~mark



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