The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)
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The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)
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#2The flong riots.. how well I recall this and my mother's hilarious laughter. I had to have much of the jokes explained to me.
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#3Notice in the advertisement where it says "Costain is Changing the Face of San Serriffe", what they are actually adding is a serif, to both cases.
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#4Donald Knuth offshores there.
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#5The flong riots.. how well I recall this and my mother's hilarious laughter. I had to have much of the jokes explained to me.
Nowadays I think most people (me included) would need to have "flong" explained to them - or to google it of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flong (funny that the Wikipedia article contains a reference to the Guardian hoax).
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#6Donald Knuth offshores there.
Unlike other offshore bank havens, this one is fully transparent: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
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#7The flong riots.. how well I recall this and my mother's hilarious laughter. I had to have much of the jokes explained to me.
Nowadays I think most people (me included) would need to have "flong" explained to them - or to google it of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flong (funny that the Wikipedia article contains a reference to the Guardian hoax).
"The San Serriffe hoax is ranked fifth in the top one hundred April Fool's Hoaxes by the Museum of Hoaxes." One should always be skeptical of an entity calling itself that, of course, but I look back rather wistfully to the days when #10 was an amusing hoax.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nowadays I think most people (me included) would need to have "flong" explained to them - or to google it of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flong (funny that the Wikipedia article contains a reference to the Guardian hoax).
"The San Serriffe hoax is ranked fifth in the top one hundred April Fool's Hoaxes by the Museum of Hoaxes." One should always be skeptical of an entity calling itself that, of course, but I look back rather wistfully to the days when #10 was an amusing hoax.
> I look back rather wistfully to the days when #10 was an amusing hoax.
Yes but #11 finally feels within our grasp. One-Door-Closes-and...
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#9Sounds like a place Etaoin Shrdlu would go.
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#10Loved this bit.
"the islands will accelerate at first gently and then more rapidly as they approach Sri Lanka. Simple calculations suggest that the island group will hit the coast of Sri Lanka at a velocity of 940 km an hour on January 3, 2011."