Comments on: Llabour and the llamas http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/ Chris Brooke's Weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:02:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Gotowarmissagnes http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-380428 Gotowarmissagnes Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:56:14 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-380428 Recent American election bad news for llamas http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/obama_vows_to_wipe_out Recent American election bad news for llamas

http://www.theonion.com/content/radio_news/obama_vows_to_wipe_out

]]> By: engels http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-231855 engels Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:51:26 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-231855 ¡Viva la llama revolucionaria! ¡Viva la llama revolucionaria!

]]> By: Phil http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-231069 Phil Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:28:44 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-231069 Southerner. Up in Castile it's more sort of a hhhdlyabour (and hhhdlyama, more to the point). Edward Lear wrote in his diary that the Welsh ll struck hiim as essentially the same consonanmt as the Castilian ll, only unvocalised; it doesn't sound very likely, but I think he was right. I strongly suspect the Mayan(?) tl was another one. Southerner. Up in Castile it’s more sort of a hhhdlyabour (and hhhdlyama, more to the point). Edward Lear wrote in his diary that the Welsh ll struck hiim as essentially the same consonanmt as the Castilian ll, only unvocalised; it doesn’t sound very likely, but I think he was right. I strongly suspect the Mayan(?) tl was another one.

]]> By: ejh http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-222054 ejh Mon, 26 May 2008 08:39:18 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-222054 Yabour? Yabour?

]]> By: Alex B http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221641 Alex B Sun, 25 May 2008 10:33:55 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221641 The llama scene is in Le Temple du Soleil ("Prisoners of the Sun" in English). Captain Haddock gets his (strictly proportional) revenge in the end: http://www.capsurlemonde.org/andes/lamas/tintin-ter.html The llama scene is in Le Temple du Soleil (”Prisoners of the Sun” in English). Captain Haddock gets his (strictly proportional) revenge in the end:
http://www.capsurlemonde.org/andes/lamas/tintin-ter.html

]]> By: Chris Brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221626 Chris Brooke Sun, 25 May 2008 09:12:32 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221626 Llamas in zoos spit at people, that's true. Zoos make them nervous, and put them on edge. They are altogether calmer when outside zoos, hanging around in herds. I think people do still argue about the origins of syphilis. But I don't think the llama theory is one of the ones the more serious analysts consider. Llamas in zoos spit at people, that’s true. Zoos make them nervous, and put them on edge. They are altogether calmer when outside zoos, hanging around in herds.

I think people do still argue about the origins of syphilis. But I don’t think the llama theory is one of the ones the more serious analysts consider.

]]> By: cliche guevara http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221612 cliche guevara Sun, 25 May 2008 08:16:00 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221612 Llamas do spit at people. One spat at me in Southport Zoo when i was 6. That's how i learned an important fact about Llamas: when their ears fold back, they are not being friendly. This is a warning that they are about to spit in your face. This was the same zoo in which a gorilla threw its excrement through the bars of its cage at my mum (this was quite a while ago, when zoo animals still lived behind bars), and where you could reach into the penguin enclosure - which my uncle did, promptly being bitten by a passing penguin. This zoo is now closed, rather unsurprisingly. However it was actually the first zoo in the world to successfully breed a snow leopard in captivity (though i suspect that they just sprayed black spots on a small white cat they found in the street). Returning to the issue of Llamas, Fourier probably would have regarded them as more simple hieroglyphs than the mighty giraffe, but a message from God none the less. Also, a question; i heard that syphilis was introduced to Europe by Spanish Sailors who had been sodomising Llamas in South America, from whom they caught the disease. Is this just completely made up, does anyone know? Llamas do spit at people. One spat at me in Southport Zoo when i was 6. That’s how i learned an important fact about Llamas: when their ears fold back, they are not being friendly. This is a warning that they are about to spit in your face.

This was the same zoo in which a gorilla threw its excrement through the bars of its cage at my mum (this was quite a while ago, when zoo animals still lived behind bars), and where you could reach into the penguin enclosure - which my uncle did, promptly being bitten by a passing penguin.

This zoo is now closed, rather unsurprisingly. However it was actually the first zoo in the world to successfully breed a snow leopard in captivity (though i suspect that they just sprayed black spots on a small white cat they found in the street).

Returning to the issue of Llamas, Fourier probably would have regarded them as more simple hieroglyphs than the mighty giraffe, but a message from God none the less.

Also, a question; i heard that syphilis was introduced to Europe by Spanish Sailors who had been sodomising Llamas in South America, from whom they caught the disease. Is this just completely made up, does anyone know?

]]> By: Chris Brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221248 Chris Brooke Sat, 24 May 2008 19:45:56 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221248 "We are a democratic socialist party and our objective is to bring about a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of wealth and power in favour of working people and their families." “We are a democratic socialist party and our objective is to bring about a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of wealth and power in favour of working people and their families.”

]]> By: dsquared http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221232 dsquared Sat, 24 May 2008 19:24:17 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221232 the thing that struck me was that they're happy to campaign on a class war basis and have a go at the "toffs", but if anyone were to suggest so much as a penny on the higher rate of income tax, they would look at you as if you had the proverbial appendage growing out of your head. the thing that struck me was that they’re happy to campaign on a class war basis and have a go at the “toffs”, but if anyone were to suggest so much as a penny on the higher rate of income tax, they would look at you as if you had the proverbial appendage growing out of your head.

]]> By: Chris Brooke http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221209 Chris Brooke Sat, 24 May 2008 19:02:51 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/05/24/llabour-and-the-llamas/#comment-221209 http://www.capsurlemonde.org/andes/lamas/photos/tintin-bis.jpg http://www.capsurlemonde.org/andes/lamas/photos/tintin-bis.jpg

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