tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 22 19:19:12 2002
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Re: More puns in new vocab
- From: "Aryeh ben Naphtali" <stasys@mail.admiral.ru>
- Subject: Re: More puns in new vocab
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 03:03:43 +0300
Steven Boozer <sboozer@midway.uchicago.edu> ghItlh Monday, January 21, 2002,
11:27 PM
Subject: Re: More puns in new vocab
>>> vIlInHoD - a bird capable of mimicking speech
>
>Jeremy Silver wrote:
>: Exactly. "Pieces of Eight" is what iirc Long John Silver's (no relation
;)
>: parrot from Treasure Island says. The name of said parrot?
>: [...]
>: Captain Flint!
>
>Aha, you've got it! I didn't recognize the pun because I've never read
>Treasure Island or seen the movie(s) thereof.
>
>For those who suggested "Captain Villain"... nice try, but no cigar.
Another suggestion (most probably unrelated)... FILIN is a sort of owl in
Russian (cf. Polish "Filka" in Mazowsze paralleling common "puchacz").
Aryeh