Hope Wezzle never learns Pong is an Earth game and orders fresh festering Lewarkin dung.
CBob
I learned “pong” from “Footrot Flats” collections my dad brought back from an international work trip (he was a scientist, so “business trip” doesn’t feel like the right term) when I was little. It is indeed fun slang, and I enjoy using it when I have the opportunity.
Gregg Eshelman
So, you like odd slang, eh? Look up “Boontling”. It’s a whole slang language that originated in Boone County, California.
@TB, I’d seen it twice, which is what made me curious about the book! It is an adaptation, and I kinda adore both although for some-same some-different reasons.
TB
That’s kind of similar to the Ghibli treatment of “Howl’s Moving Castle” compared with the original book. Of course, Miyazaki has to be forgiven for injecting his beloved flying machines into almost everything. They are pretty cool.
Hope Wezzle never learns Pong is an Earth game and orders fresh festering Lewarkin dung.
I learned “pong” from “Footrot Flats” collections my dad brought back from an international work trip (he was a scientist, so “business trip” doesn’t feel like the right term) when I was little. It is indeed fun slang, and I enjoy using it when I have the opportunity.
So, you like odd slang, eh? Look up “Boontling”. It’s a whole slang language that originated in Boone County, California.
@CBob, maybe a chance to use one of my favorite rare-used terms: a busman’s holiday. 🙂
“Pong” is a British thing. I think I first saw it in some comic by Alan Moore or someone like that.
I’m hoping you also check out Studio Ghibli’s “When Marnie Was There.” I haven’t read the book yet myself, and I’d be curious how they match up.
@TB, I’d seen it twice, which is what made me curious about the book! It is an adaptation, and I kinda adore both although for some-same some-different reasons.
That’s kind of similar to the Ghibli treatment of “Howl’s Moving Castle” compared with the original book. Of course, Miyazaki has to be forgiven for injecting his beloved flying machines into almost everything. They are pretty cool.
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I learned Pong (not the video-game, the word) from that dear old BBC barrister, _Rumpole_.