Hi all,
I'm slipping Humor made it to page 2 Well here is a baseball joke from Baen's Bar 1632 Tech worth a laugh even though a groaner:
virginiademarce wrote:
Transmitted by my oldest son:
On a remote mountain, situated upon the border between modern-day Greece and Macedonia, stands an ancient convent. Once it flourished and was known as a center of religious life, learning, and culture. However, the years have not been kind. It was sacked by the Nazis during the Second World War. Since then, as fewer women have chosen a religious vocation and donations have all but dried up, the number of nuns at the convent has continually declined. Today, only one remains an elderly nun who makes her best efforts to keep up the old buildings and maintain the grounds, and to show faithful Christian hospitality to the occasional visitor.
But in ancient times, the site was important and noteworthy. The ancient Greeks erected a temple there to Eros, the god of love, and adorned the temple with a large marble statue of the god. Pilgrims from throughout Greece traveled to the temple to pay homage to their deity. Over time, Greek officials and legal scholars also came to use the temple as a library and repository of their most important legal documents and writs, with records of the laws of their cities and the cases brought before their courts.
After the Romans conquered the territory, the temple began to decline in importance. Attila and his army of Huns took possession of it for a time, and occupied it as a temporary field headquarters during a military expedition. Attila learned of the existence of the ancient legal writs, and took them along with him when he left on his next campaign, in the hope of discovering timeless legal principles to aid him in governing his unruly and undisciplined tribesmen. Unfortunately, following Attila's death soon thereafter, the writs were forever lost.
Christianity became the dominant faith in the region, and in time a convent was established on the site of the ancient temple. Deeming the great statue of Eros an unsuitable pagan distraction in a house of Christian worship and contemplation, an early mother superior caused it to be reduced to rubble, which was then used to prepare a foundation for the construction of a new convent building. Though the convent prospered for many centuries, today it appears to be nearing the end of its long and distinguished history.
And thus, if a traveler approaches, he may chance to see the last remaining sister of the order, aged and lonely, looking out from her windswept mountaintop retreat, pondering her pathetic situation . . .
No Huns, no writs, no Eros, and nun left on base.
I translated the pun for our non native English speaking Barflies, "No Runs, no hits, no errors, and a run left on base."
Then got the following:
rdmoody wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. It didn't translate into British English - we watch cricket not baseball.
Richard
Proving "Ah America and England two nations separated by a common language," American author George Bernard Shaw IIRC.
Poker
Mange, <Please Admiral Starlight or Admiral Werff save the honorverse from this raving maniac!>