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Category: Quora
In Memoriam, Jimmy Liu
https://www.quora.com/Have-you-e… (Nick Nicholas): Jay Liu. Gone, never forgotten. (Lyonel Perabo): We should have a memorial stone for him, somewhere… Posted 2016-07-03 [Originally posted on https://galleryofawesomery.quora.com/In-Memoriam-Jimmy-Liu]
Pegah and Lyonel’s mutually assured destruction
Lyonel Perabo and Pegah Esmaili had an odd exchange in their respective answers Pegah Esmaili’s answer to What would you do if you were the only female in the world? and Lyonel Perabo’s answer to What would you do if you were the only male in the world? This mainly played out in the comment […]
A comic strip on Arnold von Harff
This is for Dimitra Triantafyllidou and for Kelvin Zifla. It’s in Greek, so it’s not for most of you. One of the first records of Albanian is in the travelogue of Arnold von Harff, as he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem via the Balkans in 1496. Everywhere he went, he recorded a few words […]
In memoriam Gerasimos Arsenis
Context: Dimitra Triantafyllidou’s answer to How does one cook lokma? I was bantering with Dimitra on the Melbourne nouveau Lokma place, St Gerry’s. Named after the patron saint of Cephallonia, Gerasimus of the Jordan. Which reminded me of the funniest joke I’ve heard in Greek, told by the late Gerasimos Arsenis, another Cephallonian. As recounted […]
Beth Murray vs Maisie Williams
The thread that keeps on giving. Context: Beth Briony’s answer to What does your accent sound like in English? Annika Schauer, she who once loaned Jimmy Carter an alarm clock, responded: You sound like Arya Stark! hahahahahahaha Whereupon I value-added: https://www.quora.com/How-is-you… cc Beth Briony: preconception, going in: She must sound like Jessie J. It’s a […]
Lara will not eat green beans or aspic
Context: Lara Novakov’s answer to What was the worst meal that you ate out of politeness? Lara declared her dislike of пихтије/πηχτή (aspic), which she said she dislikes even more than бораније/φασόλια (green beans). We had some banter on this, which I ended up rendering in art: https://www.quora.com/What-was-t… And who am I to disappoint… Posted […]
Nick hides from Lyonel in a map of Australia
Context: Lyonel Perabo’s answer to What does your accent sound like in English? In which Lyonel once again regaled us with his Mad Map Skillz: I commented: Your maps are awesome! Keep them up. In fact, I think I’ll start doing those as well… Lyonel threatened appropriate retaliatory action, involving dead fish. To which I […]
Wanted: For Crimes Against Lara
https://www.quora.com/What-is-th… Context: Lara’s horror story about her religious geography teacher. To help stop this horrible person, I have sourced a Wanted poster! Make sure this is plastered across Novi Sad! Posted 2016-06-16 [Originally posted on https://galleryofawesomery.quora.com/Wanted-For-Crimes-Against-Lara]
Whence this blog
It all began with Karen Chung’s answer to What did someone do that made you think they were really smart? Karen most awesomely illustrated the scenario she described, with XKCD-style stick figure art. Well, I exclaimed in comments. If she can do something so awesome, I can certainly do something half-arsed and attention-grabbing. Some of […]