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Examples
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By fknvty, December 21, 2009 @ 9: 20 pm ya want some tranz lix with that?
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Hao ebber, he nawt neerly az clebber adn eggsepshunul az da tranz cotton intlol kittehs!
I think, therefore I am - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Dis playce hazza gud publik tranz port tayshuns if dey hab bof a subway anna monorail!
Subway cat available - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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And it brings up the homersexuals and tranz-jendery.
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All the clips tranz together with a cross dissolve.
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hims followed meh homez. ah will walks him an feds him and tranz him an ebberythin. ah promise. ah wil eben gibs him sum of mah krunchiefud. pleeeeeeeeeez?
stoopid dog - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
slumry commented on the word tranz
a u-less q word without the q?
If we had some eggs we could have ham and eggs if we had some ham.
July 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word tranz
F U NE M?
S, V F M.
F U NE X?
S, V F X.
OK, L F M N X. :-)
Old one from my Dad....
July 12, 2007
slumry commented on the word tranz
halo kumtux :(
I just read that as people age, they are slower to get jokes. It was scientific. ;-) Alas.
Ah, but I choose to believe it is not so.
July 12, 2007
uselessness commented on the word tranz
I liked it. :-)
July 12, 2007
slumry commented on the word tranz
Showoff.
July 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word tranz
Nah, once you get the hang of it, they're easier to parse.
Have you any ham?
Yes, we have ham.
Have you any eggs?
Yes, we have eggs.
Okay, I'll have ham and eggs.
July 12, 2007
slumry commented on the word tranz
Thanks for putting me out of my misery. ;-)
July 12, 2007
trivet commented on the word tranz
Reminds me of these books I had growing up by William Steig.
C ER.
July 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word tranz
Yep, that's the idea, trivet. My dad was telling us this one long before I discovered those books, so they were a revelation when I finally did see them. Of course, I had to buy copies for him. :-)
July 12, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word tranz
I still don't see how "F U NE M?" becomes "Have you any ham?", or how ham connects to tranz at all.
July 12, 2007
slumry commented on the word tranz
I think it is like:
Heff you enee 'am, if I have the picture right
Like you, I still don't get the tranz. It seems to be a corruption of "trance," but I do not know how that relates to q and u. Perhaps it is just a misplaced word. Oroboros?
July 12, 2007
uselessness commented on the word tranz
Heff you enee 'am?
'es, ve heff 'am.
Heff you enee ecks?
'es, ve heff ecks.
Okay, I'll heff 'am 'n' ecks.
The funny part is, it's not just letters that sound like words, it's letters that sound like words WITH AN OUTRAGEOUS ACCENT! ;-)
July 12, 2007
slumry commented on the word tranz
Makes me think of "The Education of H-Y-M-A-N K-A-P-L-A-N" by Leo Rosten, a book which I had not thought of for a while. I am sure it is somewhere in my stash. (rummage, rummage) I remember it being a very funny book years ago. I wonder what I would thin now.
Thanks
July 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word tranz
Jennarenn, ham & eggs, to my knowledge, have absolutely nothing to do with tranz. However, they *do* have something to do with slumry's initial comment, and that's all I needed today to go off on a wild tangent. ;-)
I also forgot to explain that the OUTRAGEOUS ACCENT here is supposed to be a send-up of PA Dutch. I guess you have to be there (say, in Lancaster County)....
July 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word tranz
P.S. I think tranz refers to trance music.
July 12, 2007
slumry commented on the word tranz
Ah ha!
July 12, 2007
oroboros commented on the word tranz
Yes, tranz is a slang-stylization (!?) for trance-type world beat music. I had totally forgotten I'd listed it and when I came across this eccentric and typically wonderful Wordie comment riff, it surprised me to see I'd listed the kick-off word! I don't understand the tangent slumry took, but I surely have enjoyed the goofy results. Quite a quiddidty o' comments, O S A R...
:oP
July 13, 2007
slumry commented on the word tranz
The original joke was that tranz is a word without a q in a "q without u" list. Therefore, it is analagous to optimistically wishing for ham and eggs when you have neither. I assumed that you had somehow included tranz accidentally. Just a small joke with unintended consequences!
July 13, 2007
oroboros commented on the word tranz
*red face*, oops! Yer rite! 'Smoved...
July 13, 2007
slumry commented on the word tranz
It's all good fun--thanks for playing along.
July 13, 2007
reesetee commented on the word tranz
Didn't this happen with another of your words recently, oroboros? You're positively inspirational....
July 13, 2007
oroboros commented on the word tranz
Ahem. *takes bow*
July 13, 2007