Showing posts with label Foreign languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foreign languages. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Comic 1121 - Identity

A man of the Great Orinoco
Secured things with systems rococo
But he’d never need
To be fully IDed
Cause no one else would be so loco.

Original comic here.

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Comic 1111 - Premiere

There once was a man from Bolivia
Who cared not for flim-flam or trivia
He'd only one thought:
Earth's eventual mort
That sensible man from Bolivia.

Original comic here.

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Comic 1109 - Refrigerator

At midnight, a goblin armada
Creeps silently into my larder
To turn food once delicious
To dangerous dishes
That would scare Don Alonso Quesada.

Original comic here.

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Comic 1101 - Sketchiness

A “sex party” sounds pretty sketchy;
“Sex tarp” might make mademoiselles retchy.
But either way, you’d
Best prepare for a rude
Rebuff. Really! So crude! And so lechy!

Original comic here.

Could be an unlucky comic for all you binary fans out there.

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Comic 1063 - Kill Hitler

Kill Hitler? Ach ja, that sounds great,
But you need to attend to the date.
If you shoot Herr H deady
When the world has already
Had the war, then you're just a bit late.

Original comic here.

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Comic 1055 - Kickstarter

Kickstarter's no longer a cash cow –
It's all got to be much more flash now.
So it'd be great
If you'd all please donate
To help set up a pitch with panache. Ciao!

Original comic here.

Friday, 17 February 2012

Comic 1018 - Good Cop, Dadaist Cop



The standard's one calm cop, one harder;
I'd rather switch harder for dada.
The punk fugs, befuddled
As fuzz-buzz turns muddled
And answers, alarmed, sans palaver.


Original comic here.

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Comic 984 - Space Launch System



You can’t just sit round being artsy
If you want to roll the space-race yahtzee.
You need über-smart guys
And surprise surprise,
That usually means an ex-Nazi.


Original comic here.

I should perhaps stress that I personally am not in favour of recruiting Nazis for technological projects, although I do very much enjoy a game of Yahtzee.

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Comic 915 - Connoisseur



How silly, becoming a keenie
Who knows everything about vini!
You could act just the same
Over frame after frame
Of Joe Biden eating panini.


Original comic here.

Very early birds will know that the -ini rhymes were originally in the singular. It works better in plural, though, don't you think?

EDIT: Bonus content! For no reason in particular, here's the Italian version of yesterday's limerick:

Che pazzo diventare un "keenie"
Che sappia tutto dei vini!
Potresti far lo stesso
E dir "Me n'interesso!"
Dei foto di Biden con panini.

Monday, 20 June 2011

Comic 914 - Ice



There once was a young man from Sydney
Who went to a do where they didnae
Have ice (an essential);
He left, got tangential
And woke in a tub full of kidney.


Original comic here.

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Comic 898 - Chain of Command



At the top of all high-level trees
Is a shadowy eminence grise.
Barack is the Pres
But the techie-in-res
Knows, really, that he's the big cheese.


Original comic here.

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Classic comic 231 - Cat Proximity



A young man from Mexico City
Was clever and urbane and witty
One thing broke the flow
Of bewitching bons mots:
His snuggly, wuggly kitty.


Original comic here.

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Comic 870 - Advertising



A bargain-hound from Ensenada
Saved up to a quarter on Prada
Just guess her emotion
When this vague promotion
Turned out to save nada de nada.


Original comic here.