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OT: It's How You Play The Game -- Qwantz Explains Poker

Posted by Nate Straight
18 Apr 2011
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Alright... so the magical interweb has provided me with source material for two off-topic posts today! Here's today's Dinosaur Comics:

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North is riffing on the book English As She Is Spoke, which is a Portuguese-English phrase-book written by someone who didn't speak English.

My brother's favorite phrase from the book, and one of the more classic examples of its absolute inefficiency as an actual phrase-book is:

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That pond it seems me many multiplied of fishes. Let us amuse rather to the fishing.
Reader Response: [Yeah, let's do that. At least then this post will have some reason to exist.]

Have you ever learned a game from someone who was as awful explaining it as T-Rex is?
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