The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418 Message #1171170
Posted By: Rapparee
26-Apr-04 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
The sadness. Throughout Idaho, sorrow. An entire State, over a million people (some of whom are even living in clumps called "cities") are mourning today.
For BDiBR didn't come visit our library, nekkid as a jaybird. Instead, Kampervan cricized the language of the MOABites. Using the linguistic skills acquired in a graduate course in linguistics (where else would you learn this sort of thing?), I treed K's comments so that I could determine what the actual message was -- without success. I next used an old linguistics trick and translated the comments to Antique Middle Dutch, AMD to pre-Viking Icelandic, and the result to contemporary Tagalog. Eureka! the result was one word! That word is "tolong" which when translated from Tagalog to English means "Help."
Thus, Kampervan's post was (and is) a plea for help. Exactly what sort of help is being requested and whether or not this plea comes from Kampervan is still being researched. The problem has been referred to the Idaho National English and Everything Linguistic Laboratory (INEEL), where the resultant word ("Tolong") will be rendered into ASCII and then to hexadecimal and run through INEEL's supercolliding supercomputer for numeric analysis, comparing the hexadecimal results with the same results from octal, binary, and other mathematical bases. The results will be presented here later in tabular format, assuming that the grant money holds out.
Being a shy and unassuming kid from the Great Middlewest, there is no need to nominate me for a Nobel Prize. No, really. Aw, shucks, go ahead then, since you insist.