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Detail of the book's map, parodying Tolkien's hand-drawn maps in The Lord of the Rings [1]. The parody closely follows the outline of The Lord of the Rings, lampooning the prologue and map of Middle-earth; its main text is a short satirical summary of Tolkien's plot.
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: For added emphasis, LOL can be appended with any number of additional iterations of "OL". In cases such as these, the abbreviation is not to be read literally (i.e., "Laughing out loud out loud out loud out loud"), but is meant to suggest several LOLs in a row. OMEGALUL and LULW: variants of "LUL" used as a Twitch emote. [38] [39] [36]
Douglas Hofstadter noted in his essay "Translations of Jabberwocky", the word 'slithy', for example, echoes the English 'slimy', 'slither', 'slippery', 'lithe' and 'sly'. A French translation that uses 'lubricilleux' for 'slithy', evokes French words like 'lubrifier' (to lubricate) to give an impression of a meaning similar to that of Carroll's ...
The book was released in the UK in November 1983 in time for the Christmas market. It was a commercial success for Pan Books. [7] The title of the book was chosen to be very similar to Monty Python's film The Meaning of Life that was being produced at the same time, after Douglas Adams called Terry Jones to ask if it would be OK. Adams's idea ...
Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.
Taylor Swift had fun partying it up with Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs after their Super Bowl LVIII win, even if that party included her parents.In a TikTok posted late Monday evening ...
Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce have synergy on the football field that no longer translates to late-night parties. “No, I cannot [keep up with him],” Mahomes, 28, quipped during the Thursday ...