News Convergence: Go Ilunga Yourself
News Convergence: Go Ilunga Yourself
Since LasagnaFarm is as bored as an eight-year-old in the waiting room of Sears Auto Center, we're introducing a new feature: News Convergence, in which two seemingly unrelated news items are combined to create a new, hopefully more interesting one. Can you say "Gestalt"? No? Then can you say "your mom is so fat, McDonalds outsources her lunch orders to Sri Lanka?" Good.
From CNN:
Cheney curses senator over Halliburton criticism
From BBC World:
Congo word 'most untranslatable'
From LasagnaFarm:
'F--- Off' Is Most Untranslatable Word, Cheney Says
WASHINGTON, June 24 -- After using a profanity in an exchange with Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy (D) on the Senate floor, Dick Cheney told reporters that the words he used were untranslatable as used.
"What does it mean, exactly?" Cheney said. "I can tell you the first part comes from 'fornication under consent of the king' add the word "off" to that and what do you get? Nothing, a non sequitur that's what. So, technically I said nothing."
According to witnesses, Cheney told Leahy to "Fuck off," after Lehey criticized him for alleged war profiteering.
Since LasagnaFarm is as bored as an eight-year-old in the waiting room of Sears Auto Center, we're introducing a new feature: News Convergence, in which two seemingly unrelated news items are combined to create a new, hopefully more interesting one. Can you say "Gestalt"? No? Then can you say "your mom is so fat, McDonalds outsources her lunch orders to Sri Lanka?" Good.
From CNN:
Cheney curses senator over Halliburton criticism
In response to Cheney, Leahy reminded Cheney that the vice president had once accused him of being a bad Catholic, to which Cheney replied either "f--- off" or "go f--- yourself."
From BBC World:
Congo word 'most untranslatable'
The world's most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo. Ilunga means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".
From LasagnaFarm:
'F--- Off' Is Most Untranslatable Word, Cheney Says
WASHINGTON, June 24 -- After using a profanity in an exchange with Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy (D) on the Senate floor, Dick Cheney told reporters that the words he used were untranslatable as used.
"What does it mean, exactly?" Cheney said. "I can tell you the first part comes from 'fornication under consent of the king' add the word "off" to that and what do you get? Nothing, a non sequitur that's what. So, technically I said nothing."
According to witnesses, Cheney told Leahy to "Fuck off," after Lehey criticized him for alleged war profiteering.
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