Humour VIII

Image not found. What were you trying to show us?

it's the logged/logged out problem - sadly I can't fix it as, if I log out of the forum the image is on, I can't get into it to copy the picture.Pity, it's the best joke in 2,000 years.

It's only there if it's in your cache. Logged in or out it's not there for anyone else.

I mean logged into the forum that has the original image.Posting the url of the image here doesn't work because this forum would have to be logged into that forum to be able to grab it.

Do you have reverse image search? That same image may be out on the net somewhere that might be more accessible from this forum.I wouldn't want to miss the best joke in the last 2000 years.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

My approach is to have an images directory on my web site, upload the image to that directory, and then use its URL in the img tag here.Just in case that idea might help.

At this stage I feel it would cheapen the image to see it. The reality will never be able to compete with the 'Image Not Found' of our imaginations.

Actually, image not found is a subtle joke in and of itself. What happened 2000 years ago? Do we have pictures? Icons maybe?...i think i see subtle humor.

Second is a list of "fortune cookie" sayings which was current for the UNIX fortune circa 1988, which is when I downloaded the text file from CompuServe. UNIX Fortune Cookie ListFirst is a similar list of Irish and Scottish sayings/proverbs. My posting of this list prompted me to also post the "fortune cookie" list above. This list gives the original Gaelic saying followed by a translation. Seanfhocail: Irish and Scottish ProverbsBTW, here "sean" means "old", so I assume that "fhocail" must mean something like "saying". Similar is the term "sean tigh", "old house", which sounds like "shanty" which gives us the term, "shanty town", that part of town consisting of old houses. There are several surprising borrowings from Irish to English. 
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Two or three decades ago I downloaded some computer humor files, a few of which purported to be actual technical help sessions over the phone.In one, the customer was using Windows, so the techie instructed the customer to click on an icon. "I'm a Christian! I DO NOT BELIEVE IN ICONS!" It's been a decade or two, so I forget tech support's response to that.

"Fhocail" (focail) is Irish for "words",(focal is the singular - word) the"h" will come and go depending on useage it is a aid to procunciation and generally renders the "f" silent.Seanfhocail is pronounced "shan-uckal"Edited by Heathen, : No reason given.Edited by Heathen, : No reason given.Edited by Heathen, : No reason given.

So then "seanfhocail" would mean "old words". Makes sense. Thanks.The action of that "h" sounds like lenation, a common sound change of consonants in Scottish Gaelic. The problem I had in trying to study that language was a lack of spoken examples coupled with a complex set of pronunciation rules that seemed to frequently change out from under me, not helped by a lack of phonetic renderings (at least the very few I saw, such as "tigh" for "house", were in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Guess I'm going to have to win the lottery so I can go to that language school in Inverness (assuming it's still there).For our USA members, when I was in Scotland and Ireland (though not Northern Ireland) all the street signs were bilingual English/Gaelic.

Not sure when you were there, but I think you may be misremembering. Most road signs in Scotland are not bilingual. They are in Wales.

That was in July 2015. I noticed it in and around Inverness which is where I especially noticed it, but I didn't notice it in the previous stop, Edinburgh, nor was I looking for it near Glasgow. It could well be that the practice of bilingual road signs is regional. BTW, I did notice it in Dublin (but didn't pay attention in the Cobh region) and I noticed its lack in Belfast and the surrounding countryside.It was out of Inverness that I got clued in that the word "inbher" ("inver" in English) refers to the mouth of a river. "Inbher Ness" is at the mouth of the River Ness, as Invergordon is at the mouth of the River Gordon. And near Glasgow our guide took us to a village on the mouth of the Ary, Inverary (and to the castle there that was used in an episode of "Downton Abbey").