Nokia is either on the verge of a Big Winner or is going the way of the dodo.

@siftbot - no need, dodo head. He's already banned. Adurrrr.

And now you know why they always set up their pranks in malls:

places full of simple, unassuming folks who have loooots of time to stand about waiting for something to happen a.k.a. Human Dodos
>> ^Fletch:

Hey, stranger... would you like to stand here and serve cake to people while I go somewhere else? Great!

chim chim choooooooooooooo wuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dodo babiboiboiboibobibibiobobibibobobobobo doodododoododododoodoo Chika chika!!!!!!!

This week I taught my first classes with a new set of Thai HS Seniors (the semesters start at a different time here). I always start out by getting a roster with the students' full names in Thai and having them write their nicknames in English, then taking roll call to make sure I am pronouncing the names correctly. There is no set way to write Thai sounds in English, so there is a lot of variation in how to spell things.

Anyway, one boy on the list wrote his nickname as "Kok". I correctly assumed that he wanted that to be pronounced "Coke", but then explained to him that if he goes with the other spelling an average westerner will probably call him "cock" which is rather unfortunate...

In 5 years of being here I've seen a lot of semi-unusual or unfortunate names and nicknames.

Odd: Dollar, Bible, Bird (hordes of those), Blue, Oil, Dump, Bomb, Gun, Nuke, etc.
Unfortunate: Fook, Fluck ("fluke"), Gook ("guck"), Poo, Poopae, Dodo, Porn (loads of this one also), Titee (girls name)

The worst and/or funniest one I've seen was a girl who converted her full Thai name into an English spelling of "Titteeporn Suksonmanee". Considering Thailand's ... reputation, that one is particularly unfortunate, although the actual pronunciation of the surname is more like suke-sawn-MA-knee.

On the flipside many western names translate phonetically into rather unfortunate things in Thai, or are commonly mispronounced into something bad in English. For example, Jim means "pussy" in Thai, Chris will usually be pronounced by Thais as "Clit", etc. etc.

Are you stalking my YouTube channel? Feel free to sift it. My shame has long gone the way of the dodo bird.

In reply to this comment by Enzoblue:
>> ^raverman:

Without a face shot there's a disturbing possibility this could be a man boob. Fappers be warned.


She has a clip up now where she motorboats herself.

I am not calling for Palins head, nor anyone else's. The fact is though that while there are crazy people in this world, and crazy people will always do crazy things, public speeches encouraging revolution and violence (even if it is indirectly) create an environment in which these people have a much easier time rationalizing such things. Even non-crazy people who are just fed up and getting angrier and angrier at what they are being told repeatedly is the tyrannical takeover of their country will eventually reach the point where violent lashing out seems the only alternative.

This doesnt mean everything has to become all "PC" or whatever, thats just another swing in the extremist direction.
>> ^xxovercastxx:

I'd expect a phrase like "society failed this man" would resonate with a bunch of liberals and, instead, you all go off hunting the arctic dodo.
Ultimately, I'm not so gung-ho on following the blame trail. Jared Lee Loughner did this and Palin is no more responsible for his actions than John Romero and Marilyn Manson are for the actions of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
Palin makes a lot of comments in poor taste (not to mention poor grammar, poor spelling, and poor intelligence) but it's not possible to speak in a way that's guaranteed not to set off someone who is completely detached from reality.
Calling for Palin's head is the same sort of fear-mongering the Republicans are making a living off of right now and all you hypocrites don't seem to agree a whole lot with them when they do it.

I'd expect a phrase like "society failed this man" would resonate with a bunch of liberals and, instead, you all go off hunting the arctic dodo.

Ultimately, I'm not so gung-ho on following the blame trail. Jared Lee Loughner did this and Palin is no more responsible for his actions than John Romero and Marilyn Manson are for the actions of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

Palin makes a lot of comments in poor taste (not to mention poor grammar, poor spelling, and poor intelligence) but it's not possible to speak in a way that's guaranteed not to set off someone who is completely detached from reality.

Calling for Palin's head is the same sort of fear-mongering the Republicans are making a living off of right now and all you hypocrites don't seem to agree with them a whole lot when they do it.

I'm EIIIGHTEEEEN
and I don't know what I want
EIIIGHTEEEEN
I just don't know what I want
EIIIGHHTEEEN
I gotta get away
I've gotta get out of this place
I'll go runnin in outer space
OH YEAH

(dooo do dodo dooooo dada)

Not to rain on your Apple hate-fest, but couldn't HTML5 possibly spell the end for Flash on the web? I think that Steve Jobs is as big of a egomaniacal dickface as the next guy does, but isn't there a reasonable chance that he's right? If Flash went the way of the dodo on the web, that would severely weaken Flash in general, wouldn't it? And developing on a weakened platform would be a gamble of sorts, right?

I don't claim to be any kind of expert. That's why I framed my response in the form of questions. That, and I also watch Jeopardy a lot.

Shameful... Environmentally, bottled water should go the way of the dodo.

Taste wise, bottled water should go the way of the dodo.

If you live somewhere where the tap water is safe, bottled stuff should be outlawed!!!

Exactly. Least ridiculous? There was more than 125 years between the extinction of the Dodo and the first photograph. At least there have been "sightings" of Yetis (not to mention Jesus) since the invention of photographs.

>> ^thinker247:
If I wanted a picture of a living dodo, I would first look them up online and see when they died out. A little research before asking for a photo would help everyone involved.
>> ^ponceleon:
quality
Loved it... though I feel like the dodo was perhaps the least ridiculous of the ones mentioned. While they are extinct and have been for a few hundred years, it is conceivable to think they might have been around during the photographic era since you can see them stuffed in many museums and whatnot...
Still awesome little animation.

If I wanted a picture of a living dodo, I would first look them up online and see when they died out. A little research before asking for a photo would help everyone involved.

>> ^ponceleon:
quality
Loved it... though I feel like the dodo was perhaps the least ridiculous of the ones mentioned. While they are extinct and have been for a few hundred years, it is conceivable to think they might have been around during the photographic era since you can see them stuffed in many museums and whatnot...
Still awesome little animation.

*quality

Loved it... though I feel like the dodo was perhaps the least ridiculous of the ones mentioned. While they are extinct and have been for a few hundred years, it is conceivable to think they might have been around during the photographic era since you can see them stuffed in many museums and whatnot...

Still awesome little animation.

In reply to this comment by choggie:
question is, should
I down vote this simply for fucking with my head like you have?

In reply to this comment by enoch:
should i put an obscure tag on this band?
i saw them three times and they fuckin ROCK!
pop it's cherry please kind sir.
http://www.videosift.com/video/TRIUMPH-lay-it-on-the-line-legendary-hard-rock-band-LIVE


are you flirting with me?
thanks bud.i love triumph but it seems they have gone the way of the dodo.