Comments on: The new Minister of Goofy Walks was sworn in today.

By: perromacho

perromacho — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:03:20 +0000

US Education suxs: learn some Latin (Now someone will say “is the language of the latin people” so i will LOL)

By: Sune

Sune — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:04:00 +0000

There are no separation of church and state since the first Bush in the white house.
lol rednecks in power!

By: poultryshake

poultryshake — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:37:32 +0000

Why don’t you people ever get it right?! It’s Ministry of SILLY Walks! Not crazy, funny, or goofy! Silly!

By: Kittymouth

Kittymouth — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:31:05 +0000

I can only imagine the lulz you get from us Americans when and if
you use the British meaning of “Rubber” (An eraser) since our
usage of “a rubber” means a condom.

By: PHB

PHB — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:02:22 +0000

Silly walks, noob!

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:15:20 +0000

ITS SILLY WALKS YOU NOOB

By: Shiny

Shiny — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:14:17 +0000

Sorry, if we’re going to have an argument, you must pay for either five minutes or the full half-hour.

By: Shiny

Shiny — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:10:47 +0000

Sarcasm.

It cannot be explained, it must be experienced.

By: Iker

Iker — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:00:43 +0000

I thought the dance was called an Aurresku.

By: jules

jules — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:09:29 +0000

I <3 Mel Brooks.

By: dancehavoc

dancehavoc — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:45:50 +0000

Nobody expects the- oh, bugger.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:04:01 +0000

“My guess is that you are from Svealand and don’t travel much outside your part of Sweden.”
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Oh, don’t make assumptions. ;oP My comment about only one Swedish was more light-hearted than serious.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:09:36 +0000

LOL–These people seem to collect at thread bottoms like so much “Alka Seltzer dandruff.”

By: rhorho

rhorho — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:06:54 +0000

If you had reading comprehension, you would probably know the difference between the main point and an aside. I brought up the word “ministry” as a trivial point, and everyone else but you and a sad troll had no trouble comprehending.
Oh, yes, and it’s likely that the captioner simply didn’t remember the word “Silly,” and substituted the word “Goofy” by mistake. The mistake drew disgust from all.
You know, it’s not all about Americans trying to Americanize everything. It sounds like you have a huge chip on your shoulder. Getting your back bowed up about the spelling of “humo(u)r?” Seriously?? Now you’ve just downgraded yourself to pathetic.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:50:37 +0000

*goes into caffeine shock*
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*lays twitching on the floor*

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:47:56 +0000

LOL–”Homeless drug-addicted hooker” is my signature style. It’s not just for breakfast, you know…
I’m incredibly skittish about evil coffee names, but it’s mainly because it’s against my religion to doctor up a perfect thing. That said, I love Cafe du Monde coffee with chicory, and have been known to eat chocolate covered coffee beans.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:39:22 +0000

Wow–I had to look that up. Thank you for the new fun term! One of my cats gives me a Glasgow kiss every morning and night, at least. Now we have a name for it! )

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:09:15 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Dear!
*OM NOM NOM NOM*

By: martin

martin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:58:43 +0000

You wrote:
“I’m glad there’s only one Swedish”

You mean only one written Swedish. My guess is that you are from Svealand and don’t travel much outside your part of Sweden.

There are a lot of very different spoken Swedish dialects. Old English could easily pass as just another Swedish dialect.

As for myself, I think (and rarely speak) in a Swedish dialect that has kept most of the grammar from Old Norse and have not been as influenced by Low German as TV Swedish. Because of all inflections you can mix the order of words pretty much how you like and easily ignore saying half of them. Because I’m from a sea town where people have done a lot of trading with other parts of the world, since at least three thousand years, I have a very extended vocabulary compared to Sveamål. The most prominent influences being from Modern Norse, Scottish, English, High German, French, Italian, Spanish, Lingua Franca and Latin.

In my dialect the combination of consonants within a word change the pronunciation of vocals in it. As a side effect, people from some parts of my birth town don’t need to pronounce any consonants when they speak. I have yet to find any pronunciation of any vocal in any other language that don’t exist in my dialect.

Of course, my dialect (as many other Swedish dialects) is totally unwritable with Latin characters. I’m not even sure it is writable with any existing phonetic alphabet.

By: Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:08:19 +0000

It’s okay, I live in the home of all evil names for fancy coffee, Seattle. And it’s mostly Liberals here. I’m not THAT scary, save for at 5am when I look like a homeless drug-addicted hooker. “give me all your taxes in the form of welfare!!!!” lol

By: slanagat

slanagat — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:05:09 +0000

People-who-can’t-be-arsed-to-read-comment-thread fail

By: slanagat

slanagat — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:00:39 +0000

Have you been grabbing Glaswegian butts again? You’re liable to get yourself a Glasgow kiss that way.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:51:52 +0000

Oooo! This kid’s goo-ood! )

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:39:05 +0000

*Rolls out of pile to catch breath*
What context? Am I going to have to learn more pop culture?
*Jumps back in, wiggling her way to the bottom*

By: rhorho

rhorho — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:27:00 +0000

@AC: The Glaswegians called. They want their buts back.

By: Firewalk

Firewalk — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:30:21 +0000

Snark WIN

By: Danbala

Danbala — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:55:08 +0000

Ooer… Why does this worry me? ;oP

By: Floraatje

Floraatje — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:03:50 +0000

It’s SILLY walks, ignorants… but nice pic anyhow ^^

By: M.

M. — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:59:31 +0000

Everyone knows Monty Python’s “Ministry for Silly Walks”. Everyone knows the “Parrot Sketch” as well. Americanizing the caption takes the humour out of it- who cares if you don’t have Ministries…
You never hear anyone talk about “Cat Sketch Not Included”, do you? I’m from Canada, so yes, that IS how humour is supposed to be spelled.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:41:33 +0000

^^^WIN^^^

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:28:05 +0000

That should be “The Minister of SILLY Walks.” Someone doesn’t know their Monty Python.

By: AC

AC — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:56:14 +0000

I spent about a week at camp with some folk from Glasgow. For ages afterwards the only adjective I used was “pure” and all my sentences had a Glaswegian “but” on the end. It was truly awful.
They all spoke like:
“Cannae be bothered but.”
and
“It’s pure minging but.”
Speaking like a wegie’s contagious.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:00:20 +0000

Oops. My reply ended up being in the wrong spot. Alas, this time I can’t blame PK – I simply clicked the wrong “reply here”-link.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:58:05 +0000

Well, it’s good to know that the AmE/BrE-switching isn’t too much of a bother. )
As for the pronounciation-switching I think I might be doing a bit of what froofrou describes and change it a bit according to how my discussion partner sounds. )
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(I also do that in Swedish, though less now than when I was young. Er. I always worry that the person I talk to will take offense, thinking I am mocking their dialect or something. ( )

By: Bcd

Bcd — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:06:44 +0000

Anyone knows that the man dressed in white was dancing?

It’s a Basque Country [Spain] traditional dance. It’s called “Aurresku”, and it’s quite difficult to do, but pretty beautyfull to see.

By: slanagat

slanagat — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:04:10 +0000

Awwwww. Happy Thanksgiving, sweetie. :shares crumble:

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:38:27 +0000

Classic MP! It’s one of my favorite skits. And, it translates well to radio also!

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:34:05 +0000

D’oh!!!

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:20:58 +0000

I think someone from CrooksandLiars must be reading PK- they’ve got that clip on their site today.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:19:00 +0000

(eyes the tazer in rhorho’s hand) Are you sure you understand the context here? Aw, hell, I don’t care either- love to be the base of a pile-on even if you don’t!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:38:48 +0000

So do you!!
*points to Eds’s voter registration card* P

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:21:16 +0000

Maybe it was someone visiting from her home planet.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:17:07 +0000

True, you lean to the left a bit.. :p

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:11:31 +0000

…and fear of looking silly has stopped me, when?

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:32:05 +0000

Oooooooohhhhhh, burn : )

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:31:18 +0000

Early opining had it that her injury was caused by a complication during her adamsapplectomy.

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:29:05 +0000

I wonder if Ann Coulter is suing Failblog, for stealing her name…

By: Xavier

Xavier — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:21:03 +0000

Roundabout, but would have been funny as hell!!!

By: rhorho

rhorho — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:53:47 +0000

Oops–Hopefully this link will work.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:50:24 +0000

Well sure, but they might look a bit silly!