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and the French used "slip"
Nov. 12th, 2008 02:31 amGood day at work. Got stuff done. Would have been even better if not for frequent interruptions by coworkers, but as person sitting next to me pointed out, such is life.
Then I went and had some chocolate.
Catching up on One Piece (the French manga translation) and got to the bit where Franky is persuaded to join the crew, and how he's persuaded. While I was vaguely aware of the details, the execution is hilarious. I was laughing painfully hard. (http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/436/012/ and on into the next chapter, for reference.)
(Though really, I'd call those "trunks" rather than "sea panties".)
8K/20K done.
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'I am told you have abandoned writing... set your face towards work in the fields.... Remember you not the condition of the cultivator faced with the registering of the harvest-tax, when the snake has carried off half the corn and the hippopotamus has devoured the rest? The mice abound in the fields. The locusts descend. The cattle devour. The sparrows bring disaster upon the cultivator. The remainder that is on the threshing floor is at an end, it falls to the thieves. The value of the hired cattle is lost. And now the scribe lands on the river bank and is about to register the harvest tax. The janitors carry staves and the Nubians rods of palm, and they say "Hand over the corn" though there is none. The cultivator is beaten all over, he is bound and thrown into the well, soused and dipped head downward. His wife has been bound in his presence, his children are in fetters. His neighbours abandon them and are fled. So their corn flies away. But the scribe is ahead of everyone. He who works in writing is not taxed, he has no dues to pay. Mark it well.'
Then I went and had some chocolate.
Catching up on One Piece (the French manga translation) and got to the bit where Franky is persuaded to join the crew, and how he's persuaded. While I was vaguely aware of the details, the execution is hilarious. I was laughing painfully hard. (http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/436/012/ and on into the next chapter, for reference.)
(Though really, I'd call those "trunks" rather than "sea panties".)
8K/20K done.
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'I am told you have abandoned writing... set your face towards work in the fields.... Remember you not the condition of the cultivator faced with the registering of the harvest-tax, when the snake has carried off half the corn and the hippopotamus has devoured the rest? The mice abound in the fields. The locusts descend. The cattle devour. The sparrows bring disaster upon the cultivator. The remainder that is on the threshing floor is at an end, it falls to the thieves. The value of the hired cattle is lost. And now the scribe lands on the river bank and is about to register the harvest tax. The janitors carry staves and the Nubians rods of palm, and they say "Hand over the corn" though there is none. The cultivator is beaten all over, he is bound and thrown into the well, soused and dipped head downward. His wife has been bound in his presence, his children are in fetters. His neighbours abandon them and are fled. So their corn flies away. But the scribe is ahead of everyone. He who works in writing is not taxed, he has no dues to pay. Mark it well.'
