I mean it, this time.
Apparently, they don't have spellcheck in the UK, though I have to admit that because of modern technology, my own spelling would be pretty bad.
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The Slippy Express is a blog maintained by five former Yale roommates who graduated in 2008.
The name comes from the "Sector Z" level of the original N64 Super Smash Brothers game. While duking it out as their favorite Nintendo characters, combatants are confronted by an Arwing that is piloted erratically and fires lasers at the players. The pilot of the Arwing could be only Slippy Toad, known throughout the Star Fox saga for his inability to fire accurately, shake off pursuers, or generally be a contributing member of the team.
On occasion Slippy suddenly pilots the Arwing into distant space, carrying any combatants on top of his vehicle with him to certain victory (and death). Killing one's character through this act of noble and
courageous self-sacrifice is known as "riding the Slippy Express."
The name comes from the "Sector Z" level of the original N64 Super Smash Brothers game. While duking it out as their favorite Nintendo characters, combatants are confronted by an Arwing that is piloted erratically and fires lasers at the players. The pilot of the Arwing could be only Slippy Toad, known throughout the Star Fox saga for his inability to fire accurately, shake off pursuers, or generally be a contributing member of the team.
On occasion Slippy suddenly pilots the Arwing into distant space, carrying any combatants on top of his vehicle with him to certain victory (and death). Killing one's character through this act of noble and
courageous self-sacrifice is known as "riding the Slippy Express."
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1 comment:
I mean, stupid people (especially well educated stupid people) tend to complain about how complicated and unwieldy English spelling is, probably because they don't have any useful ideas of their own. And yet, we've managed to deal with it for this long. Get over it, appreciate the richness of the language as it exists naturally, and don't try to screw around with it.
I'm surprised this came out of Britain, though. I would think that Americans would be more likely to cater to the lowest common denominator and try to make the language revolve around them just because they're too fucking lazy to teach it properly.
Dammit, I'm really angry now. I knew that as soon as I bit the bullet and responded I'd be pissed for the rest of the day. The title was appropriate in this case, Lance.
Also, can I just point out that George Bernard Shaw was at least creative in his criticism of English spelling? The "ghoti = fish" example is hilarious, and he even inspired an alternative alphabet to make phonetic spelling easier.
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