The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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Post by canistel » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 2:49 PM UTC

Strangely, I have a feeling of deja vu, hearing of San Seriffe.

Re: The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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Post by bombcar » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

ipython wrote: post #6

brudgers wrote: post #4

Donald Knuth offshores there.

Unlike other offshore bank havens, this one is fully transparent: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html

Kind of surprised it wasn't mentioned; it's where I heard of San Serriffe first - I assume they use the Potrzebie there.

Re: The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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Post by nathell » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 6:24 PM UTC

See also San Escobar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar

With a delightfully detailed map (featuring San Serriffe as a neighbour!): https://www.polityka.pl/multimedia/_resource/res/20122854

And a writeup by said map’s author (google translated from Polish): https://jarekkubicki-wordpress-com.translate.goog/2018/01/12...

Re: The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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Post by Optimal_Persona » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 6:34 PM UTC

Hopefully their beaches are known for more than just their comic sands...

Re: The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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Post by shagie » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 7:08 PM UTC

In my desire to have obscure flags of real and imaginary places as laptop stickers and backpack patches ... the flag of San Serriffe calls to me.

Re: The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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Post by omnimus » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 7:29 PM UTC

San Serriffe is also lovely niche bookstore in Amsterdam https://san-serriffe.com/ Safe to say named after this

Re: The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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Post by j-cheong » Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 8:11 PM UTC

Optimal_Persona wrote: post #14

Hopefully their beaches are known for more than just their comic sands...

lmao

Re: The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)

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Post by pvaldes » Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 7:45 AM UTC

rob74 wrote: post #5

ggm wrote: post #2

The 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).

What? Flong is not a word alluding to some dirt sexual practice? For Pica's sake, where is my old internet? This is inchcredibly dissapoint.