The Sibling Below Me...

[Griffin NoName]

The books were the victims. Also the bookshelves.

TsBM tried to glue them together again.

[Aggie]

I think I did alright, although I don't know if I did it right:




TSBM found bookworms in the Conservatory and now thinks they can read palms.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Only if music is written.

TSBM much rather read Braille

[Opsa]

Right now I am reading the Braille message of a big zit on my face, and it says "Owie!"

The zits of the Sibling Below Me are saying something else.

[Sibling DavidH]

They are singing, "Squeeze me, baby". That's pop music.

The sibling below me thinks a Zit is a Russian aircraft.

[Swatopluk]

Zit reminds me more of mammal gland of domesticated animals (Zitze)

The sibling below me will now explain the difference between teat and tit (apart from using different letters)

[Sibling DavidH]

Teat  is the respectable word  and it's the only one used for the artificial item.  Also it refers mainly to the nipple and not the whole beautiful, wobbly DOWN, BOY! sorry, the whole thing. 

The sibling below me realises that Zitze is the same word, changed according to the zweite Lautverschiebung.

_{But they probably can't show a reason why the cognate Tüte remains unshifted.}

[Swatopluk]

Given the customs of the small paper with he big letters there is no need since that word (Tüte*) is used as one of the many synonyms (also including 'Schaumglocken' and 'Hupen')

The sibling below me knows that said paper is still hyperintellectual compared with the British equivalents (often under the influence of The Rupert).


*actually 'Zuckertüte'

[Sibling DavidH]

No way!  Bild  is at least as bad as our Sun, though we do have one or two which may be worse.

The Sibling below me thinks Quarktaschen is also an elegant and delicate term.

_{I do like Schaumglocken and Hupen}

[Swatopluk]

Quarktaschen sounds quite onomatopoeic (spelling?)

The sibling below me thinks that it sounds more like an essential part of the next generation of quantum computers.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Perhaps a brand of quantum computers?

TSBM thinks Siemens will buy it at the first chance.

[Sibling DavidH]

More likely Kraft.

The sibling below me thinks.

[pieces o nine]

But is not certain whether she am.


TSBM is considering a second career in bumper sticker philosophy.

[Swatopluk]

Incognito Ergo Scum*

Allegedly someone once passed a philosophy exam consisting of the single question
"Is this a question?"
by answering
"No, but this is an answer!"

The sibling below me knows the shortest accepted PhD thesis.


*the universal troll motto I presume

[Sibling DavidH]

No I don't - do tell.

The philosophy exam legend at my own university of Oxford is that one year the paper contained only one question:  "Why?"  Candidates answering "Why not?" got a first; "Because" got a second and all other answers failed.

The sibling below me can sing Monty Python's philosophers song from memory.