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Tuesday, 9. November 2004

Some more Engrish body text...

Here's a tale told too often before though this morning's sample still amused me. It landed in the trap because it matched a mail rule which filters on a combination of HELO and connecting IP which often traps trojaned proxies in Korea. The plain text version and the HTML alternative (both unneccessarily using quoted-printable encoding - an additional ploy to defeat content filters), while inexplicably differing from each other do both offer relief from what may yet transpire to be a hazardous festive season.

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A latest sight displays that it requires an average of just 1.1 boozings to cause a hangover. But our lozenges aids you elude hang-overs and wake feeling splendid from head to abdomen and everyplace additional.	Our late survey shows that it takes an average of only 3.5 drinks to produce a katzenjammer. But my tablets succours you escape hangovers and come alive sentient splendid from head to belly and all over additional.

Here we see that 1.1 boozings == 3.5 drinks (what is the SI unit of alcohol consumption?). Apparently hangover == katzenjammer (are you reading this, Volker? - can it be true?).

I am really looking forward to coming alive sentient splendid though - or did I do that already? Can't be sure.

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Comments :

1. Jerry Carter18/11/2004 19:45:06
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Priceless.

I'm guessing you do know that katzenjammer (cat howling) is german for hang-over (because it's like a cat howling in your head... and if your hang-overs arn't that sever, you don't drink properly [as a german]).

In absence of an established SIU, I recommend we adopt the 3.5 drinks == 1.1 boozings standard but we need to express it as boozings / y on a curve.

Consider the following: 2.2 boozings can really be accomplished with 4.75 drinks (note the human tendency to get more stupider drunk with each additional beverage) and most people are face down around 5.125 drinks (hm... I should qualify that I'm using the Phi Cappa Chi drink formulary where 1.0 drinks == 5 fingers liquour : 12 ounces of coolaid) Death by alchohol poisioninig is often achieved at blood Oxygen / blood Alchohol = .3, so really, any more than 2.2 boozings in one night is pushing it.

Hm. It's been such a slow afternoon... I might be up for a 1.1 myself.

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