[Maquisard]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

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I'm guessing the question mark next to the yellow light means you never know what to do when it pops up? Same here

Happy B-day

[LauraMac]

Glad I didn't miss the party - yuhmm lookee what Trep bought.

Happy Birthday & Valentine's Day - Jazzie!!

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Mint Julep

Huh?

[lumi]

Those strawberry ice cream chocolate sandwiches look soooo good. I think it's time we invented a taste input for the computer.

[EasilyConfused]

Happy Happy Birthday, and feel better soon!

[Jazhara7]

Ah, thank you all.


I've enjoyed all the food, Trepsie.


...everytime I see "Julep" I have to think of "Januli Julep", and the odd conversation you have in Januli...or was it Chult? Anyway, in that conversation (in the german version of "Betrayal in Antara") the guy tells a long story (he also tells about alcohol). The odd thing is, that part of the dialogue wasn't done in a german voice in that case. So you had german text, and english voice. At another point in that dialogue you had the text AND the voice in english. Strange...

Originally Posted by Mares

I'm guessing the question mark next to the yellow light means you never know what to do when it pops up? Same here

Happy B-day

Yeah, kind of.

No, actually I know that it means "Watch out, traffic light switches to red soon". You can still drive past the traffic lights if it shows up.

The german traffic lights go like this:

1. Red light is on
2. Red light is still on, but additionally the yellow light lights up
3. Red an yellow go dark, green light lights up
4. Green light goes dark, and yellow light lights up
5. Yellow light goes dark, and red light lights up.
6. Repeat.


I learned this from a combination of observing and asking my father. But I had to look it up to be sure (I always forget if the yellow light is on at the same time as the red light, or at the same time as the green light. And I didn't have a traffic light on hand )


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[RLacey]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

The german traffic lights go like this:

1. Red light is on
2. Red light is still on, but additionally the yellow light lights up
3. Red an yellow go dark, green light lights up
4. Green light goes dark, and yellow light lights up
5. Yellow light goes dark, and red light lights up.
6. Repeat.


I learned this from a combination of observing and asking my father. But I had to look it up to be sure (I always forget if the yellow light is on at the same time as the red light, or at the same time as the green light. And I didn't have a traffic light on hand )

Heh, 'tis the same all over the place. And, to be honest, I only actually learnt it properly when I learnt to drive ...

[simpson_yellow]

Originally Posted by RLacey

Heh, 'tis the same all over the place. And, to be honest, I only actually learnt it properly when I learnt to drive ...

It's different here ('cause we're simple folk ).

Only one colour on at once (again 'cause we're simple folk ):

Green -> Amber -> Red
Red -> Green

I particularly like that the red goes straight to green with no 'get-ready-to-go' amber. Makes the take off a lot more exciting.





...and with that, the thread is officially sidetracked.

[Jazhara7]

Apparently there are some towns in Germany that add two extra phases to the traffic lights. So it isn't really the same everywhere.

The only thing that is internationally the same is how the colours are arranged (red at top, amber in the middle, green at the bottom). This is so that people that are colour blind, or red-green blind can still know if they may drive on.

Originally Posted by simpson_yellow

...and with that, the thread is officially sidetracked.

If you call THIS sidetracked, then you haven't seen RaMa's birthday thread from 2003 at the official TLJ forums.

You can find it here

Echoes and I, umm...kinda hijacked it from page 6 onwards, to write "The Adventures of Echoes and Space Swan". And it was already quite funny and off-topic before that.


(I just noticed that my english grammar improved a lot since 2003... :eek: )

P.S.: For a long time, my avatar at that forum was the picture of Lady Cygna (a swan) from LOOM.

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[Jazhara7]

Mmmh...Now that I think about it, that would make a nice little adventure game, albeit a silly one.


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[Trunkyo]

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Jazhara!
(Sorry for being a day late! )

And here's your birthday okonomiyaki, grilled "just the way you like it!" (I do this for people's b-days in other forums, BTW... )

Enjoy,
T.

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Trunkyo

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Jazhara!
(Sorry for being a day late! )

And here's your birthday okonomiyaki, grilled "just the way you like it!" (I do this for people's b-days in other forums, BTW... )

Enjoy,
T.

Thank you, trunkyo!

Mmmh, that looks good.

I never heard of it though. What is it?


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[Trunkyo]

Think of okonomiyaki as sort of a grilled Japanese pizza-omelet, which can be topped or filled with whatever ingredients you like (usually meat, seafood, vegetables, or noodles). The word itself more or less means "cooked the way you like it" ("o-" is the honorific before some Japanese words, "konomi" is a form of the verb 'to like', and "yaki" means "cook, grill"! )

I hope you're not a vegan or a non-ovo-vegetarian, Jazhara, in which case you can discreetly pass the plate back to me, unless seeing eggs made you faint!

T.

[Curt]

A belated Happy Birthday Jazhara.

[Jazhara7]

Thank you, Curt.



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[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by Trunkyo

Think of okonomiyaki as sort of a grilled Japanese pizza-omelet, which can be topped or filled with whatever ingredients you like (usually meat, seafood, vegetables, or noodles). The word itself more or less means "cooked the way you like it" ("o-" is the honorific before some Japanese words, "konomi" is a form of the verb 'to like', and "yaki" means "cook, grill"! )

I hope you're not a vegan or a non-ovo-vegetarian, Jazhara, in which case you can discreetly pass the plate back to me, unless seeing eggs made you faint!

T.

No fear! You could say I'm an omnivore. Except for Tomatoes. And Pineapple.


I guessed that it is some kind of Omelette. It really sounds good.

Can you put Camembert in mine?


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[gillyruless]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

No fear! You could say I'm an omnivore. Except for Tomatoes. And Pineapple.

Don't forget pies! You don't eat pies either.

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

I guessed that it is some kind of Omelette. It really sounds good.

Can you put Camembert in mine?

You dear can have anything on your okonomiyaki but you might be the only one in the world who would want to put cheese on one.

The best okonomiyaki is with seafood. Nothing beats a freshly prepared okonomiyaki with octopus, squid, and some prawns. Yummy!

Edit: And here's the Korean equivalent of okonomiyaki:



It's called bin dae ddeok in Korean. It's similar to okonomiyaki, but Koreans use mung bean powder instead of flour. I'm totally biased but I think bin dae ddeok is superior to Okonomiyaki.

[simpson_yellow]

Originally Posted by gillyruless

The best okonomiyaki is with seafood. Nothing beats a freshly prepared okonomiyaki with octopus, squid, and some prawns. Yummy!

Does this mean you caved?

[simpson_yellow]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

If you call THIS sidetracked, then you haven't seen RaMa's birthday thread from 2003 at the official TLJ forums.

You can find it here

Wow! That thread wasn't sidetracked so much as completely hijacked

[Terabin]

Happy birthday there Jaz!