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The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)
- ggm 2y agoThe flong riots.. how well I recall this and my mother's hilarious laughter. I had to have much of the jokes explained to me.
- rob74 2y agoNowadays I think most people (me included) would need to have "flong" explained to them - or to google it of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flong (funny that the Wikipedia article contains a reference to the Guardian hoax).
- pvaldes 2y agoWhat? Flong is not a word alluding to some dirt sexual practice? For Pica's sake, where is my old internet? This is inchcredibly dissapoint.
- mannykannot 2y ago"The San Serriffe hoax is ranked fifth in the top one hundred April Fool's Hoaxes by the Museum of Hoaxes." One should always be skeptical of an entity calling itself that, of course, but I look back rather wistfully to the days when #10 was an amusing hoax.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago> I look back rather wistfully to the days when #10 was an amusing hoax. Yes but #11 finally feels within our grasp. One-Door-Closes-and... ref: http://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/P10 http://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/P10
- fuzzfactor 2y agoNotice in the advertisement where it says "Costain is Changing the Face of San Serriffe", what they are actually adding is a serif, to both cases.
- brudgers 2y agoDonald Knuth offshores there.
- ipython 2y agoUnlike other offshore bank havens, this one is fully transparent: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
- bombcar 2y agoKind of surprised it wasn't mentioned; it's where I heard of San Serriffe first - I assume they use the Potrzebie there.
- tokai 2y agoSounds like a place Etaoin Shrdlu would go.
- graemep 2y agoLoved this bit. "the islands will accelerate at first gently and then more rapidly as they approach Sri Lanka. Simple calculations suggest that the island group will hit the coast of Sri Lanka at a velocity of 940 km an hour on January 3, 2011."
- canistel 2y agoStrangely, I have a feeling of deja vu, hearing of San Seriffe.
- nathell 2y agoSee also San Escobar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Escobar With a delightfully detailed map (featuring San Serriffe as a neighbour!): https://www.polityka.pl/multimedia/_resource/res/20122854 https://www.polityka.pl/multimedia/_resource/res/20122854 And a writeup by said map’s author (google translated from Polish): https://jarekkubicki-wordpress-com.translate.goog/2018/01/12/san-escobar/?_x_tr_sl=pl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=pl&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://jarekkubicki-wordpress-com.translate.goog/2018/01/12...
- Optimal_Persona 2y agoHopefully their beaches are known for more than just their comic sands...
- j-cheong 2y agolmao
- shagie 2y agoIn my desire to have obscure flags of real and imaginary places as laptop stickers and backpack patches ... the flag of San Serriffe calls to me.
- omnimus 2y agoSan Serriffe is also lovely niche bookstore in Amsterdam https://san-serriffe.com/ https://san-serriffe.com/ Safe to say named after this