Tag: Greek
Stranded
On a group of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following people are suddenly stranded by, as you might expect, a shipwreck:
2 Italian men and 1 Italian woman
2 French men and 1 French woman
2 German men and 1 German woman
2 Greek men and 1 Greek woman
2 English men and 1 English woman
2 Bulgarian men and 1 Bulgarian woman
2 Japanese men and 1 Japanese woman
2 Chinese men and 1 Chinese woman
2 American men and 1 American woman
2 Irish men and 1 Irish woman
One month later on these same absolutely stunning deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred ,..
One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.
The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a menage-a-trois.
The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman
The two Greek men are sleeping with each other and the Greek woman is cleaning and cooking for them.
The two English men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the English woman.
The two Bulgarian men took one long look at the endless ocean, another long look at the Bulgarian woman, and started swimming.
The two Japanese men have faxed Tokyo and are awaiting instructions.
The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy, a liquor store, a restaurant and a laundry, and have got the woman pregnant in order to supply employees for their stores.
The two American men are contemplating the virtues of suicide because the American woman endlessly complains about her body; the true nature of feminism; how she can do everything they can do; the necessity of fulfillment; the equal division of household chores; how sand and palm trees make her arse look fat; how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her nicer than they do; how her relationship with her mother is improving and how at least the taxes are low and it isn’t raining.
The two Irish men have divided the island into North and South and setup a distillery. They don’t remember if sex is in the picture because it gets sort of foggy after the first few liters of coconut whisky. But they’re satisfied because at least the English aren’t having any fun.
How to Pronounce Uranus
Uranus is unique among the planets for both a natural reason – its horizontal axis of rotation – and also a human reason: it is a Greek God among Romans.
Roman Name Greek Name God of Mercury Hermes Trade & Travel Venus Aphrodite Love Mars Ares War Jupiter Zeus King of the Gods Saturn Kronos Time Caelus Uranus The Sky Neptune Poseidon The Sea Why the German chemist Bode thought that the Greek name was better than the Roman, we may never know. But it’s interesting to note that Herschel explicitly thought that a Roman name for the planet was a bad idea. In his letter to Sir Joseph Banks in 1783 he says:
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, were given to the planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era, it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method, and call on Juno, Apollo, Pallas or Minerva, for a name to our new heavenly body. The first consideration in any particular event, or remarkable incident, seems to be its chronology; if in any future age it should be asked, when this last-found planet was discovered? It would be a very satisfactory answer to say, “In the reign of King George the Third.” As a philosopher, then, the name of GEORGIUM SIDUS presents itself to me, as an appellation which will conveniently convey the information of the time and country where and when it was brought to view.
It was pretty tricky trying to find actual occurrences of The Georgium Sidus or the other names being used in print. Here it is in an 1820 Nautical almanac listed as Georgian. I felt pretty lucky to have stumbled upon the 1823 Encyclopædia Britannica and the article mentioned in the video.
Stavros Flatley – Greek Irish Dancers – Britain’s Got Talent
Here is another clip from Britain’s Got Talent 2009. This act is original and funny. I’m not sure what they could do for an encore. My guess is that they would pretty much be a one trick pony but their performance is fantastically funny all the same.
Britain’s Got Talent duo Stavros Flatley have revealed their comedy dance routine was dreamt up to entertain diners at a family restaurant.
Greek-Cypriot Demetrios Demetriou, 40, and son Lagi, 14, wowed viewers and judges on Saturday with their version of Michael Flatley’s Irish dance troupe Riverdance.
Demetrios explained: “Ten years ago I owned a Greek restaurant.
“The food wasn’t great and Gordon Ramsay would have hated it. We did a bit of cabaret and then we relied on that more as the food wasn’t good.
“I needed a finale to get people dancing. Michael Flatley was big at the time so I decided to give it a go.
“What is funnier than a fat fella doing Michael Flatley?” He pledged to jazz up the routine if they go all the way on the ITV1 show and said: “I’m feeding Lagi up for the finals.”
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