[HN Gopher] The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)
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The Beautiful Islands of San Serriffe (2016)
Author : Schiphol
Score : 92 points
Date : 2024-04-22 09:16 UTC (1 days ago)
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| ggm wrote:
| The 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 wrote:
| Nowadays 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 (funny that the Wikipedia
| article contains a reference to the Guardian hoax).
| mannykannot wrote:
| "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 wrote:
| > 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
| fuzzfactor wrote:
| Notice 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 wrote:
| Donald Knuth offshores there.
| ipython wrote:
| Unlike other offshore bank havens, this one is fully
| transparent: https://www-cs-
| faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
| bombcar wrote:
| Kind of surprised it wasn't mentioned; it's where I heard of
| San Serriffe first - I assume they use the Potrzebie there.
| tokai wrote:
| Sounds like a place Etaoin Shrdlu would go.
| graemep wrote:
| Loved 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 wrote:
| Strangely, I have a feeling of _deja vu_ , hearing of _San
| Seriffe_.
| nathell wrote:
| See also 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
|
| And a writeup by said map's author (google translated from
| Polish): https://jarekkubicki-wordpress-
| com.translate.goog/2018/01/12...
| Optimal_Persona wrote:
| Hopefully their beaches are known for more than just their comic
| sands...
| j-cheong wrote:
| lmao
| shagie wrote:
| In 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 wrote:
| San Serriffe is also lovely niche bookstore in Amsterdam
| https://san-serriffe.com/ Safe to say named after this
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