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Old 04-02-2013, 01:53 PM   #16
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W' kin prob'ly D-folt t' spanglish n drivem nutso...
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W' kin prob'ly D-folt t' spanglish n drivem nutso...
Nah, it's a derivative work. . .
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Old 04-02-2013, 03:27 PM   #18
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I heard Apple is fighting this in court -- they patented English long ago and demand royalties from those who use it.
How'd they get the rights to it? I don't remember selling them.
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Old 04-02-2013, 06:17 PM   #19
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Nah, it's a derivative work. . .
Of spanish.
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Old 04-02-2013, 07:25 PM   #20
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Of spanish.
It's not the 'Span' part that'll trip you up, it's It's the "glish" part!

Besides, How long do you think Spanish will remain OpenSource?
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Old 04-02-2013, 09:13 PM   #21
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How about Latin? I believe that would qualify as adandonware.
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How about Latin? I believe that would qualify as adandonware.
Better not let the Vatican hear that...
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Old 04-03-2013, 03:04 AM   #23
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You could probably pick up "French" cheap at ebay.FR.
You can never buy "French." France is a socialist country they will give it to you if you need it, or for a small donation the next election.
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you speak Beowulf!
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Old 04-03-2013, 06:53 AM   #25
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You know, it just occured to me. . .
With Amazon owning English anything you said would take 8 - 10 days to be heard, but with Prime membership would be heard in 2 days.

BUT If Google owned English, you could expect every declaration of love to come with an advertisement for Trojan condoms.

BUT if Microsoft owned English, we would all be talking out our asses, and it would be renamed Eng8. This in itself isn't a bad thing, a few might even prefer it. Members of Congress quickly come to mind. However since our asses aren't connected to our lungs, the demand for cruciferous vegetables would go way up and thereby improve the farm economy.
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Old 04-03-2013, 01:52 PM   #26
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BUT if Microsoft owned English, we would all be talking out our asses, and it would be renamed Eng8. This in itself isn't a bad thing, a few might even prefer it. Members of Congress quickly come to mind. However since our asses aren't connected to our lungs, the demand for cruciferous vegetables would go way up and thereby improve the farm economy.
Nah, BP already applied for the patent for a device that harnesses the energy produced by cruciferous vegetables as they move through a warm-blooded carbon-based unit's intestinal tract (think canines!). They call it green energy!
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Old 04-03-2013, 07:12 PM   #27
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Nah, BP already applied for the patent for a device that harnesses the energy produced by cruciferous vegetables as they move through a warm-blooded carbon-based unit's intestinal tract (think canines!). They call it green energy!
Well, the French are getting carbon credits for reducing cow farts, since efforts to harness such energy apparently went nowhere and methane is a big problem.

No, I'm not posting a link. I want all of you to Google (or Bing, or whatever) "French cow farts" as my contribution to the tracking of trending search terms.
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Has anyone told the cows that they have to reduce how much they Fart
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Has anyone told the cows that they have to reduce how much they Fart
Al Gore did:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoo...ethane-cow.htm

http://timeforchange.org/are-cows-ca...at-methane-CO2
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thought occurred -
I need to buy some ENglish.
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