Thursday, August 18, 2011

Fact


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19 comments:

  1. The Rat King6:26 am

    Well, you can't argue with that.

    No idea where the hell to start.

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  2. They spelt litres rong

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  3. The Rat King8:52 am

    Hey Arbroath, you subscribe to a spam service lately?

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  4. And this is after the captchas were added to the comment sections. I hope blogspot's just had a fit and is adding comments from the wrong blogs.

    I presume special means facial? Well, at least I hope it does.

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  5. Engrish ! The next pillar has a sign written in German, the pillar behind that has a sign written in Spanish....in all the signs litres is spelt liters, which is wrong. One uses a liter to ignite signs that are spelt wrong.

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  6. In the US it's spelled liter. Things are ignited with a lighter.

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  7. Yes, but the people in the USA are crazy, I know, I used to go out with one of them, but that was only because she was gorgeous, I have grown since.
    The site "Nothing To Do With Arbroath" is named after a town in the U.K., called, funnily enough, Arbroath, ...and the signs on the pillars are in Europe (still hacking to find out exactly where) so it follows to anyone with logic, that the word litre should be spelt litre. The mention of the word liter as an ignition tool was an attempt at humor, as was that. Re-arrange these letters...U H D ! Thank.

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  8. Anonymous11:32 am

    Thanks for clearing that up Ratz! The whole poster suddenly makes a lot more sense.

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  9. But William, as it's called "NOTHING to Do With Arbroath" one would assume that the site presents things from outside of the town and possibly even the UK.

    I'd bet this is from Lion Beer in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It looks like their logo at the top.

    Anyone know where this is?

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  10. I vaguely remember that at some point there actually was some story concerning Arbroath - the name of the site is a lie. Also, WilliamRocket displays astounding abilities as a clearvoyant if he really can tell this picture is from Europe. Also, that certainly isn't German on the second pillar, and claiming the third one is written in Spanish is another sign of a clearvoyant. Or a troll.

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  11. I recall a video post with the song "Welcome to Arbroath." The refrain said, "welcome to Arbroath. You might accidentally get killed." That gets stuck in my head surprisingly often.

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  12. The photo was taken in Saigon in Vietnam, Andiscandis.

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  13. Thanks. Vietnam is right next to Scotland, if I remember my Geography class correctly....

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  14. Heh heh!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tco5DaT_B-c

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  15. :-)

    I'll be on the next flight. Sounds magic.

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  16. Anonymous2:19 pm

    So how does one pronounce "litre"? I'm curious, since you Brits seem to find an extra letter in the word "aluminum" -- one which the rest of the English-speaking world can't see.

    =oP

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  17. I suspect the error might have come from a "mishearing" by voice-recognition software.

    "beer-drinkers' facial hair"
    "beer-drinker special hair"

    Say them both fast. They sound a lot alike. The sounds /f/ and /p/ are very close, phonetically. As are the sounds /e/ (as in facial) and /E/ (as in special -- I don't have the proper phonetic symbol here).

    (A mishearing combined with a a lack of ability to proofread in a foreign language -- English).

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  18. Good thought, Cath. You're probably right.

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