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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/21/2004 : 02:15:05 [Permalink]
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Can anyone translate this one?
http://www.lostfrog.org/70.html |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2004 : 03:44:57 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo
Can anyone translate this one?
http://www.lostfrog.org/70.html
Sure
Boy: I'm sad and scared.
Girl: What's the probem, my friend?
B: I lost Hopkin Green Frog.
G: I just want to kiss your red lips!
B: No! Not when it's like this!
B: Being human is hard.
G: Can I see you tomorrow?
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2004 : 07:55:59 [Permalink]
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| Thanks. It is Swedish, then? |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2004 : 08:34:55 [Permalink]
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quote:
Boy: I'm sad and scared.
Girl: What's the probem, my friend?
B: I lost Hopkin Green Frog.
G: I just want to kiss your red lips!
B: No! Not when it's like this!
B: Being human is hard.
G: Can I see you tomorrow?
And just as funny as any other Nancy comic ever written. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2004 : 09:26:30 [Permalink]
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| This thread has made it to its second page. Hopkins Green Frog has legs! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2004 : 13:42:48 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Gorgo
Thanks. It is Swedish, then?
Yes. Not great dialogue though. And not as easy to translate than I first thought. Being as proficient in English as I am for a Swede, when I write post to this forum or elsewhere, I don't "think up" the post in Swedish, but when I'm writing I'm thinking in English, in my inner dialogue. I'm not sure how much work and time one need for that sort of thing, but only now I realise that in doing so, being a translator requires another kind of practise. It's a different way of thinking. |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 11/21/2004 : 13:49:56 [Permalink]
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| Been there, Doc. Same for me. When I'm writing english, I'm thinking english. When I'm writing portuguese, I'm thinking portuguese. Translating, I think, involves reading one language and thinking in another, as to write it down. Don't know. I could ask my mother, she earns her living with translations... |
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 11/22/2004 : 14:10:06 [Permalink]
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This thread has made it to its second page. Hopkins Green Frog has legs!
Maybe. Maybe not. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2004 : 16:58:56 [Permalink]
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Two threads merge
http://www.lostfrog.org/74.html |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2004 : 17:44:32 [Permalink]
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| Brilliant! |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2004 : 18:04:21 [Permalink]
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Hopkin explained:quote:
The person who drew the flier is a sixteen-year-old boy who suffers from autism. His father was unaware that his son may have made more than one batch of fliers (it appears that new fliers were hung in May of 2004). He did know about the loss of the frog and I believe that he knew about the first batch of fliers.
He also did not want me to give the frog to his son. He's forgotten it, he told me. Bringing it up again will probably only bring up a bunch of bad memories.
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2004 : 19:04:47 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by H. Humbert
Hopkin explained:quote:
The person who drew the flier is a sixteen-year-old boy who suffers from autism. His father was unaware that his son may have made more than one batch of fliers...Bringing it up again will probably only bring up a bunch of bad memories.
Possible. But something tells me that this story might possibly be fictional. It has a bit to many logical and carefully placed melodramatic elements. I could be wrong, but... |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 11/24/2004 : 19:38:32 [Permalink]
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Chippewa, the guy who wrote that story is a journalist. The "moments" are, indeed, carefully placed. And, as one of the commentors on that piece wrote:Man, what a joykill, I'd rather we didn't know the truth and kept believing it was some 5 year old boy. If this were just a 5 year old he could be kicking it with new frogs and media attention for feel good stories, and parents getting a kick out of the photoshop stuff. Now it's something people probably don't want to have a laugh about. It's a pretty crappy addition to the whole story if it's not true. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2004 : 20:24:55 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
It's a pretty crappy addition to the whole story if it's not true.
I sort of felt that way at first, too. But then another poster wrote this: quote:
It's only a joykill if you let it be. Why don't we all channel the feeling of Hopkin into donating a stuffed animal to a toy drive or a local hospital. That way Hopkin kinda gets to go home. Even if it's in a parallel universe.
--Bryan
And then this made me smile, because it was true.
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What I do find funny is the picture that the kid drew of the frog looked like a bad drawing of a frog. Then you see what the stuffed toy looks like and it's actually a pretty good drawing!
--Bill
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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Posted - 12/02/2004 : 14:29:00 [Permalink]
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| Hold it, wait. Is it true that the kid who originally wrote that actually has autism? If so, I feel like an @$$hole! |
>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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